Postal Clerks
This page updated February 8, 2013
Post masters of course, delivered the mail. Some of these men had very long routes. Most all of them also had other occupations. In the earlier days, some of the post masters operated out of there homes and didn't deliver the mail, the recipients came and picked it up themselves. It was not unusual to find that a "post office" was not much more then a closeted off corner in the general store. This would make the store owner the post master, however not all store owners would have cited that as their occupation.
As late as 1903, the mail to Quincy was being brought from Mooresville by riders on horseback or wagon. In the very early times it came to Quincy through Millgrove.
Owen County
Sylvester ADKINS--Adel
Maxine ALLEE--Quincy
William T. ANDERSON--Carp
Frances ARNOLD--Quincy
Earl ASHER
Victor BLACK--Quincy
Adam BRENTON--Brentonville
Daniel P. CAMPBELL-- Cunot
A.B. CARLTON--Quincy
Alvin CASTWELL--Quincy
William CHANEY--Atkinsonville
Joel A. COFFAY--postmaster/Spencer
William CONNELY--Atkinsonville
Grant DUNKIN--Quincy
Anna HARSH --clerk/Spencer
William HART--Cuba
John HOCHSTETLER--Coal City
Theodore JENNINGS--Cataract
Calita Black JOB--Quincy
Glen JOB--Quincy
W.A. MALICOAT
Cyrus MARSHALL--Alligator
Jeptha D. MEEK--1896 Jordan Village Judson MUGG--Quincy
Andrew K. NEILL
Colonel NEWMAN--Quincy
Mose NEWTON--Cloverdale
Robert RICE--Arney
Arthur SECREST-Alaska
Abel SHEPPARD--Alligator
Edward SPANGLER--Quincy
O.E. STEWART--Quincy
Ralph SUMMERS--Quincy
Walter WAY--Quincy
Morgan County
George W. CHAPIN--mail carrier/Harrison twp
Larkin ELLIOT--postal clerk/Mooresville
William A. MARS--mail agent on Railroad
Frank R. MYRICK --mail carrier/Adams twp
Timothy OBENSHAIN--post master/Morgantown
William SMITH-- mail carrier/Monrovia
Brooks THORNBURGH --postal clerk/Mooresville
John A. WILSON--post master/Monrovia
Putnam County
Moses AKERS--Cloverdale
Solomon AKERS--Cloverdale
Charles F. DARNALL--asst. post master/ Greencastle
Mary E. DARNALL --postmistress/Bainbridge
Permenus DAVIS--Cloverdale
Donus E. DENNY--Cloverdale
Harvey DENNY--Cloverdale
Charles A. FISHER--postal clerk/Greencastle
C.T. FOSTER--Cloverdale
William L. HART--Cloverdale
H.C. HADDEN--Cloverdale
Stephen HAVILAND--Cloverdale
John V. HOPKINS--Cloverdale
Wilson E. HORN--Cloverdale
Soleman JAMES--mail carrier
William T. JAMES--asst. mail carrier
Henry B. MARTIN--Cloverdale
Thomas E. MARTIN--Cloverdale
Andrew V. McKAMEY--Cloverdale
John C. MERWIN--Cloverdale
William E. MORRISON--Cloverdale
Thomas NELSON--Cloverdale
Charles ROCKWELL--Cloverdale
Henry M. ROCKWELL--Cloverdale
John SANDY--Cloverdale
Jacob SMITH--Cloverdale
Wm. J. STEEG--post master/ Greencastle
George L. TALBERT--Cloverdale
