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Postmasters, 1870-1914


POSTMASTERS.

The following is the record of appointments of postmasters of the postoffices in Reno county, since their establishment to their discontinuance or to the present time (1914):


Hutchinson

John A. Clapp ------- (established) December 6, 1871
Edward Wilcox ------- June 4, 1872
N. C. Boles ------- February 27, 1877
Hiram Raff ------- November 12, 1878
R. M. Easley ------- January 2, 1883
J. F. Blackburn ------- January 19, 1887
Wilson McCandless ------- May 14, 1890
Eli Mead ------- August 10, 1894
John B. Vincent ------- July 1, 1897
Henry M. Stewart ------- January 24, 1906
Samuel S. Graybill ------- September 25, 1914


Nickerson.

Amanda J. Sears ------- (established) January 21, 1873
Lizzie Boggs ------- April 8, 1875
Lizzie M. Budd ------- April 29, 1875
L. A. Reeves ------- January 14, 1878
E. W. Elliott ------- February 23, 1883
George W. Sain ------- July 20, 1885
John W. Claypool ------- January 30, 1890
Sarah M. Arnold ------- February 27, 1804
Joseph E. Humphrey ------- January 10, 1898
George W. Sain, Jr. ------- February 4, 1914


Zenith. (name changed to Sylvia April 23, 1887)

Thomas J. Anderson ------- (established) May 12, 187O
J. B. Wright ------- October 1, 1884
Thomas J. Talbott ------- December 21, 1885
H. S. Austin ------- April 23, 1887
Thomas Litchfield ------- July 20, 1889
H. S. Austin ------- December 18, 1893
J. A. Whitehurst ------- August 23, 1895
C. W. Tipton ------- June 26, 1897
E. H. Smith ------- March 11, 1899
Amanda M. Baird ------- April 2, 1901
Frank Forney ------- August 22, 1902
Joseph E. Aldrich ------- January 21, 1907
L. G. Waggoner ------- May 1, 1913


Plevna.

Frankie Hazen ------- (established) October 25, 1877
H. S. Austin ------- March 11, 1884
John W. Campbell ------- August 4, 1886
E. M. Blachly ------- June 27, 1888
William O. Severance ------- January 29, 1890
Mary E. Wilson ------- September 29, 1894
Levi W. Blaisdell ------- August 3, 1897
Louis M. Ipson ------- May 7, 1908
J. D. Likens


Salt Creek. (name changed to Abbyville June 1, 1866)

Nathaniel Dixon ------- (established) December 8, 1873
W. W. Farrand ------- January 19, 1876
Elias Palmatier ------- May 15, 1877
James McLean ------- June 1, 1866
Jennette Wyer ------- June 11, 1889
James McLean ------- August 11, 1893
Flora Oliverson ------- August 2, 1897
Kate Robertson


Reno Center. (name changed to Partridge May 24, 1886)

Thomas Harris ------- (established) December 12, 1873
Samuel Dilley ------- April 30, 1875
Henry C. O'Hara ------- June 12, 1882
M. L. Jordan ------- May 24, 1886
P. D. Shoemaker ------- January 5, 1887
William Pilcher ------- May 17, 1889
Henry C. O'Hara ------- September 17, 1894
William Pilcher ------- December 1, 1897
Henry C. Lusk ------- April 15, 1901
Robenia E. Davis ------- June 3, 1912


Hamburg. (name changed to Buhler October 20, 1888)

Edwin R. Rogers ------- (established) January 30, 1888
Dietrich Enns ------- August 17, 1888
Dietrich Enns ------- October 10, 1888
Frank F. Tows ------- December 20, 1889
Jacob M. Pletscher ------- August 4, 1890
John J. Dick ------- March 14, 1894
John M. Enns ------- April 15, 1897
Theodore Krehbiel ------- May 8, 1902
James F. McMullen ------- August 7, 1902
Cornelius P. Froese ------- December 11, 1902
Peter H. Adrian ------- March 4, 1911


Haven.

Caleb Cupps ------- (established) April 10, 1873
F. W. Thorp ------- May 3, 1886
Charles W. Astle ------- April 19, 1889
George W. May ------- September 19, 1893
John R. Payne ------- August 5, 1897
Charles W. Astle ------- August 26, 1901
Elmer G. Erwin ------- February 19, 1903
William J. Waterbury ------- October 24, 1907
M. F. Henderson ------- June 17, 1913


Yoder.

Eli M. Yoder ------- November 25, 1889
Samuel C. Gaston ------- January 17, 1902
M. E. Hostetler ------- February 18, 1903
Annie B. McDermed ------- December 15, 1903
Ben Boxt ------- November 26, 1904
Annie Switzer ------- March 15, 1906


Cotton Grove (name changed to Turon January 13, 1882)

John B. Thatcher ------- September 19, 1877
John S. Bates ------- December 28, 1880
M. H. Potter ------- January 13, 1882
John Hinds ------- July 20, 1891
Calvin L. Ely ------- November 25, 1893
George B. Potter ------- June 10, 1897
O. S. Jenks ------- January 10, 1902
Florence Lowe ------- August 3, 1905
Mrs. John Catte


Arlington.

H. H. Purdy ------- (established) February 7, 1878
John J. Gaines ------- April 15, 1879
William A. Knorr ------- December 21, 1880
S. L Bunch ------- December 28, 1885
J. D. Scott ------- July 17, 1886
John F. Lowe ------- August 2, 1886
J. C. Lowe ------- December 8, 1887
Isaac S. Trembler ------- March 3, 1891
Anthony Roetzel ------- March 1, 1895
Isaac S. Trembley ------- November 23, 1897
John Berry


Langdon.

John E. Ulmer ------- (established) December 16, 1873
H. E. Evarts ------- October 4, 1880
Asa J. Judy ------- November 2, 1887
William I. Holland ------- April 6, 1889
Charles A. Miller ------- December 10, 1890
William I. Holland ------- May 31, 1893
Albert W. Collings ------- February 20, 1895
Lucy J. Jones ------- June 19, 1897
Chester W. Wyatt ------- June 8, 1911


Castleton.

William Wallace ------- December 27, 1872
Eliza Wallace ------- August 25, 1884
Thomas Fall ------- January 28, 1890
George T. Fall ------- February 12, 1890
Horace N. Holcomb ------- June 14, 1895
Ralph B. O. Leary ------- March 25, 1908
Newell E. Fountain ------- January 30, 1911
Maude E. Givens ------- May 9, 1916


Pretty Prairie.

Mary Collingwood ------- (established) January 26, 1873
William G. Graham ------- July 11, 1878
Thomas H. Smith ------- July 29, 1879
Stephen P. Sanders ------- January 17, 1884
H. C. Gault ------- December 18, 1893
Samuel G. Demoret ------- November 24, 1897
Samuel E. Young ------- January 9, 1905
George D. Smith ------- January 25, 1907
John F. Smith


Booth. (name changed to Darlow October 2, 1900)

George W. Keedy ------- March 29, 1890
Ottilia Umstot ------- April 10, 1899
Ottilia Umstot ------- October 2, 1900
Floyd H. Moore ------- February 5, 1914



Leslie. (name changed to Medora August 16, 1887)

George W. Cooter ------- March 16, 1874
Jefferson Huston ------- January 31, 1876
Abraham Klopfenstein ------- May 11, 1880
Samuel S. Smith ------- November 17, 1882
John J. Dick ------- August 16, 1887
H. C. Bear ------- January 25, 1888
William Poulton ------- February 12, 1890
Patrick W. Furlong ------- March 6, 1894
Mary Richards ------- July 27, 1896
Jesse D. Weaver ------- December 23, 1898
Lovisa A. Harrison ------- February 23, 1900
Harvey J. Rickenbrode ------- October 24, 1901


Netherland. (name changed to Lerado May 2, 1884)

J. F. Martin ------- (established) August 12, 1874
A. M. Webb ------- April 3, 1876
Wylie Brown ------- April 29, 1878
C. L. Ely ------- July 24, 1879
Orlo S. Jenks ------- August 8, 1881
Orlo S. Jenks ------- May 2, 1884
J. J. Jones ------- April 19, 1887
William P. Jones ------- April 6, 1889
William H. Cheatum ------- February 4, 1891
Matthew S. Ely ------- November 21, 1894
Abigail Frazier ------- March 12, 1895
Rice N. Cheatum ------- July 10, 1897
John F. Cheatum ------- May 20, 1898
Charles W. Dutton ------- September 26, 1900
David J. Davis ------- March 28, 1901
J. Wesley Barr ------- March 29, 1902
Discontinued February 13, 1904






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