US Postmaster Appointments for the Copemish Area

I was researching when George Chubb may have owned a store in Harlan, and I found a listing of US Postmasters for our area.  In the very early years, the postmaster in a certain area was often also the owner of a store.  I found George Chubb in the list -- appointed in 1899.  I also found Alfred Churchill who sold one of the Harlan stores to Egbert Marcellus Wagner.  Both Churchill and Wagner were appointed postmasters in the years that I assume they owned the store.  It is interesting to see that each of the small communities began to lose their post offices as mail service became consolidated in the village of Copemish.   Here is the list I made from the information in the NARA volumes.

            US Appointments for US Postmasters Register

Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-Sept. 30, 1971; Roll #: 61; Archive Publication #: M841.

For Cleon, Pomona, and Harlan

Name	PO Location	Appointment Date	Volume #	Volume Year Range
Joseph Seamons	Cleon Twp, Manistee County, MI	11 Oct 1871	54	1878-1896
George Colvin	Cleon Twp, Manistee County, MI	25 Feb 1888	54	1878- 1896
Joseph Seamons	Cleon Twp, Manistee County, MI	12 Dec 1888	54 and 91	1878-1896
William Ridout	Cleon	12 Feb 1898	91
Document says PO to Copemish 1902
John E. Stiver	Pomona Manistee County, MI	7 Dec 1889	54	1878-1896
Frank Gregg	Pomona, Manistee County, MI	10 Aug 1894	54 and 91	1878-1896
Leo L. Duffy	Pomona	21 March 1898 5 Apr 1898	91	1896-1908
Samuel Griner	Pomona	1 Aug 1908	91	1896-1908
Fannie Hessam	Pomona	13 Oct 1909	91	1896-1908
Charles W. Babcock	Pomona	19 Jan 1911	91	1896-1908
Samuel Griner	Pomona	26 Oct 1911	91	1896-1908
Jerome S. Gregg	Pomona	18 Feb 1913	18 Feb 1913	1896-1908
Ira M. Courson	Pomona	13 June 1914	91 – says mail to Copemish 1916	1896-1908
Byron L. Deen	Harlan	31 March 1890	54	1878-1896
Hattie Gilbert	Harlan	28 Sept 1894	54	1878-1896
Pierce J. Spencer Percy?	Harlan	14 June 1896	54 and 91	1878-1896
George L. Chubb	Harlan	15 Dec 1899	91
Alfred F. Churchill	Harlan	12 Feb 1906	91
David Neher	Harlan	21 Apr 1913	91
Egbert Wagner	Harlan	13 June 1914 (mail to Copemish in 1935)	91
John Brimmer	Marilla	11 Oct 1871	54	1878-1896
George L. Brimmer	Marilla	5 Dec 1893	54	1878-1896
George L. Brimmer	Marilla	5 May 1910	91 (discontinued 1935 – mail to Copemish)	1896-1908
Frank W. Clark	Copemish	11 Jan 1890	54	1878-1896
David A. Cornell	Copemish	5 Jan 1894	91 and 54	1878-1896
Charles M. Olney	Copemish	21 Aug 1897	91
Possibly George Brimmer		1903	91	Form says mail to Copemish 1903
Thomas T. Fralick	Copemish	11 Dec 1914	91
Charles Plowman	Copemish	12 Dec 1924	91
Charles A. Turner	Copemish	28 Feb 1928 28 Feb 1929	91 32
Floyd W. Hatch	Copemish	30 June 1933	32	1930-1971
Carl V. Moody	Copemish	24 May 1935	32	1930-1971
Carl V. Moody	Copemish	3 Aug 1939	32	1930-1971
John L. Romsek	Copemish	31 Dec 1949	32	1930-1971
John L. Romsek	Copemish	13 Sept 1951	32 (transferred to R.C.)	1930-1971
Mrs. May Turner	Copemish	15 June 1953	32	1930-1971
Raymond P. Brown	Copemish	15 July 1954	32	1930-1971
Raymond P. Brown	Copemish	11 Aug 1954	32	1930-1971
Willard Smith	Yates	14 Dec 1886	91