I was researching when George Chubb may have owned a store in Harlan, and I found a listing of U.S. 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 information in the National Archives volumes.
U.S. Postmaster Appointments
Name | P.O. Location | Appointment Date | Record Volume # | Volume Year Range |
Joseph Seamons | Cleon | 11 Oct 1871 | 31 and 54 | 1864 - 1878, 1878 - 1896 |
Geo. W. Colvin | Cleon | 25 Feb 1888 | 54 | 1878 - 1896 |
Joseph Seamons | Cleon | 12 Dec 1888 | 54 | 1878-1896 |
Wm. J. Ridout | Cleon | 12 Feb 1898 (mail moved to Copemish in Jan 1902) | 91 | 1896-1908 |
Robert Knowles | Yates | 9 June 1884 | 54 | 1878-1896 |
Willard Smith | Yates | 14 Dec 1886 (mail moved to Lemon Lake in April 1902)
| 54 and 91 | 1878-1896, 1896-1908 |
Willard Smith | Lemon Lake | 21 April 1902 (mail moved to Copemish in Feb 1904)
| 91 | 1896-1908
|
John E. Stiver | Pomona | 7 Dec 1889 | 54 | 1878-1896 |
Frank Gregg | Pomona | 10 Aug 1894 | 54 and 91 | 1878-1896, 1896-1908 |
Leo L. Duffy | Pomona | 21 Mar 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 |
Chas. 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 | 91 | 1896-1908 |
Ira M. Courson | Pomona | 13 June 1914 (mail moved to Copemish in May 1916)
| 91 | 1896-1908 |
John Brimmer | Marilla | 11 Oct 1871 | 31 and 54 | 1864 - 1878, 1878-1896 |
George L. Brimmer | Marilla | 5 Dec 1893 (mail sent to Copemish for brief period in Sept 1903) | 54 | 1878-1896 |
George L. Brimmer | Marilla | 5 May 1910 (mail moved to Copemish in May 1935)
| 91 and 32 | 1896-1908, 1930 - 1971 |
Byron L. Deen | Harlan | 31 Mar 1890 | 54 | 1878-1896 |
Hattie Gilbert | Harlan | 28 Sept 1894 | 54 | 1878-1896 |
Pierce J. Spencer | Harlan | 14 June 1896 | 54 and 91 | 1878-1896, 1896-1908 |
Geo. L. Chubb | Harlan | 15 Dec 1899 (mail sent to Copemish for brief period in Dec 1905)
| 91 | 1896-1908 |
Alfred F. Churchill | Harlan | 12 Feb 1906 | 91 | 1896-1908 |
David Neher | Harlan | 21 Apr 1913 | 91 | 1896-1908 |
Egbert M. Wagner | Harlan | 13 June 1914 (mail moved to Copemish in June 1935)
| 91 and 32 | 1896-1908, 1930 - 1971 |
Frank W. Clark | Copemish | 11 Jan 1890 | 54 | 1878-1896 |
David A. Cornell | Copemish | 5 Jan 1894 | 54 and 91 | 1878-1896, 1896-1908 |
Charles M. Olney | Copemish | 21 Aug 1897 | 91 | 1896-1908 |
Thomas T. Fralick | Copemish | 11 Dec 1914 | 91 | 1896-1908 |
Chad Plowman | Copemish | 12 Dec 1924 | 91 | 1896-1908 |
Charles A. Turner | Copemish | 28 Feb 1928
| 91 and 32
| 1896-1908, 1930 - 1971 |
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 | 1930-1971 |
Mrs. May F. 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
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Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., Appointments of U.S. Postmasters, 1832-1971 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
Original data:
Records of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971; Microfilm publication M841, 145 rolls; NAID: 596306 and 17027522; Records of the Post Office Department, 1773-1971, Record Group 28; The National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Marlene, you had asked me about George L. Chubb and a real estate office. I thought I had remembered finding a reference to one and here it is....
ReplyDeleteBIO FROM THE HISTORY OF WEXFORD COUNTY, MI
Alonzo Chubb was born in Monroe County, NY, in 1823. His people moved to Michigan soon after the state was admitted to the Union. Mr. Chubb enlisted soon after the war of the Rebellion in the 105th Ohio Volunteers, serving 2 years, at the end of which time he was mustered out of account of wounds and sickness, having attained the rank of lieutenant. In 1867, he came to northern Michigan, settling in what is now the township of Cleon in Manistee County. He often tells of how he wintered some pigs he brought with him when he moved into the wools. The snow got so deep that it was impossible to get to Traverse City, the only place where feed could be procured, and as a last resort he drove them into the woods with the rest of his stock to see if they would "browse." To his utter surprise they took right hold of the tender maple twigs and lived on a "browse" diet the balance of the winter. Mr. Chubb also says that there are not many people who can truthfully boast of holding office in two counties, living in two representative and two senatorial districts, and yet never changing his residence from the town he first settled in. Of course this state of affairs came about by reason of the township of Cleon having been attached to this county for a number of years, during which time Mr. Chubb served a term of four years as Judge of Probate of Wexford County. He is still hale and hearty at the age of 80 and has a real estate office in the village of Copemish in Manistee County. ttp://www.migenweb.org/wexford/history/pioneers.html taken from The History of Wexford County, MI compiled by John H. Wheeler, 1903.
Thanks, Cathryn!
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