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Post Office Clerks

List of Known African American Post Office Clerks, 1800s(1)

Post Office Clerk | City | State | By | To About
Alexander, Allen | Mobile | AL | 1877 | 1880
Braziel, Walter | Mobile | AL | 1891 | 1911 or later
Taylor, William O. | Mobile | AL | 1879 | 1880
Abercrombie, Nicholas E. | Montgomery | AL | 1893 | 1911 or later
Harris, Charles Oscar | Montgomery | AL | 1891 | 1911 or later
Taylor, Henry | Montgomery | AL | 1879 | 1881
Wyman, Henry R. | Montgomery | AL | 1893 | 1911 or later
Duke, Jesse C.(2) | Selma | AL | 1879 | 1879
Garrett, Kizie W. | Little Rock | AR | 1885 | 1885
Garrett, S. G. | Little Rock | AR | 1883 | 1883

Henderson, Marion H.

Little Rock

AR

1883
9/1/1889

1885
1911 or later

Jordon/Jordan, Scipio A.(3) | Little Rock | AR | 1883 | 1883
Rector, James Elias | Little Rock | AR | 1872 | 1885
Richmond, Augustus | Little Rock | AR | 1883 | 1891
Boyd/Boyed, Charles M. | Denver | CO | 1874 | 1881
Curry, John W.(4) | Washington | DC | 1868 | 4/20/1870

Bra(i)den, Robert J.

Jacksonville

FL

1891
1903

1900
1905

William(s), Willis | Jacksonville | FL | 1880 | 1881
Hill, Duglas Y. | Palatka | FL | 1880 | 1883
Papy, D. A./A. E. | Saint Augustine | FL | 1879 | 1881
Bass, Elijah H. | Atlanta | GA | 10/1881 | 1899
Johnson, Robert | Atlanta | GA | 1869 | 12/1874
Rucker, Amos | Atlanta | GA | 1875 | 1880
Barefield, William H. | Augusta | GA | 1870 | 1883
Belcher, Algernon S. | Augusta | GA | 1874 | 1891
Gardener, G. S. | Augusta | GA | 1870 | 1881
Smith, George T. | Macon | GA | 1877 | 1880
Cooper, Shem | Savannah | GA | 1874 | 1881
Holmes, Henry | Savannah | GA | 1868 | 1885
Toomer, Louis B. | Savannah | GA | 1868 | 1890
Adams, George A. | Keokuk | IA | 1879 | 1881
Burrow(s), Charles | Evansville | IN | 1874 | 1880
Mobiley, Henry L. | Kansas City | KS | 1893 | 1911 or later
Branch, John W. | Louisville | KY | 1885 | 1901
Evans, George W.(5) | Louisville | KY | 1874 | 1879
Harris, James R. | Louisville | KY | 1877 | 1911 or later
Knight, George W. | Louisville | KY | 1880 | 1881
Malone, Edward C. | Louisville | KY | 1899 | 1905
Singleton, Octavius | Louisville | KY | 1899 | 1900
DeLacy, Miss Mary E. | Alexandria | LA | 1879 | 1880
Brazley, Louis | New Orleans | LA | 1879 | 1881
Deslonde, Pierre G. | New Orleans | LA | 1879 | 1880
Devizin/Devezen, George | New Orleans | LA | 1879 | 1881
Johnson, Missouri | New Orleans | LA | 1879 | 1881
Rey, Octave | New Orleans | LA | 1879 | 1880
Hamilton, William F. | Shreveport | LA | 1874 | 1881
Chapman, Charles E. | Boston | MA | 1877 | 1880
Downing, Thomas | Boston | MA | 1868 | 1911 or later
Dupree, William H.(6) | Boston | MA | 1875 | 1914
Fitzgerald, Margaret H. | Boston | MA | 1874 | 1885
Gray, Ira Nell | Boston | MA | 1868 | 1874
Nell, William C. | Boston | MA | 1863 | 1874
Nott, Peter H. | Boston | MA | 1874 | 1895
Peters, Henry P. | Boston | MA | 1872 | 1911 or later
Smith, Burrill | Boston | MA | 1866 | 1869
Thompson, Job B. | Boston | MA | 1872 | 1883
Thompson, Lewis C.H. | Boston | MA | 1871 | 1880
Trotter, James M. | Boston | MA | 1866 | 1881
Watson, Thomas R. | Boston | MA | 1863 | 1865
Chester, Thomas H. | Baltimore | MD | 1872 | 1885
Grace, John E. | Baltimore | MD | 1879 | 1880
Price, William W. | Detroit | MI | 1879 | 1885
Thompson, Henry F. | Detroit | MI | 1879 | 1911 or later
Claxton, Essex | Columbia | MO | 1880 | 1881
Binford, James | Saint Louis | MO | 1874 | 1880
Bradley, James F. | Saint Louis | MO | 1880 | 1885
Collins, Albert | Saint Louis | MO | 1873 | 1881
Crump, John K.(7) | Saint Louis | MO | 1875 | 1877
Davis, Frank | Saint Louis | MO | 1877 | 1880
Goff, William Hy | Saint Louis | MO | 1879 | 1911 or later
Goodall, Andrew | Saint Louis | MO | 1875 | 1880
Sampson, Joseph A. | Saint Louis | MO | 1877 | 1880
Murray, Phil H. | Saint Louis | MO | 1877 | 1880
Smith, James Talbot | Saint Louis | MO | 1877 | 1880
Fitzhugh, Eddie H. | Natchez | MS | 1874 | 1881
Moore, John W. | Wilmington | NC | 1870 | 1885
Murray, Stephen B. | Auburn | NY | 1879 | 1911 or later
Barboza, Antero J. | New York | NY | 1877 | 1880
Hill, Charles J. | New York | NY | 1872 | 1880
Nelson, David F. | New York | NY | 1877 | 1897
Smith, Charles C. | New York | NY | 1877 | 1880
Wood, Allen D.(8) | New York | NY | 1901 | 1911 or later
Douglas, Simon(9) | Dayton | OH | 1869 | 1871
Mallory, Robert A. | Dayton | OH | 1879 | 1881
Robison, Hilliard | Springfield | OH | 1879 | 1881
Swayne, Charles D. | Springfield | OH | 1883 | 1911 or later
Adger, Daniel P. | Philadelphia | PA | 1872 | 1885
Rice, George E. | Newport | RI | 1874 | 1881
Brown(e), R. C. | Charleston | SC | 1880 | 1883
Clyde, John E. | Charleston | SC | 1874 | 1881
Gripon, Herbert C. | Charleston | SC | 1899 | 1903
Hymes, Daniel E. | Charleston | SC | 1899 | 1911 or later
Mushington, John A. | Charleston | SC | 1891 | 1903
Smith, Theodore A. | Charleston | SC | 1870 | 1880
Wallace, Henry Andrew | Columbia | SC | 1872 | 1883
Foxhall, William M. | Nashville | TN | 1874 | 1885
Patton, Anthony | Nashville | TN | 1869 | 1885
Patton, John Henry | Nashville | TN | 1874 | 1903
Walden, Henry W. | Galveston | TX | 1877 | 1881
Paige, Richard G. L. | Norfolk | VA | 1883 | 1885
Oliver, James Henry | Petersburg | VA | 1871 | 1881
Austin, Henry | Richmond | VA | 1880 | 1897
Bolling, Richard C. | Richmond | VA | 1874 | 1907
Bowser, James H. | Richmond | VA | 1873 | 1880
Brown, Andrew J. | Richmond | VA | 1891 | 1911 or later
Brown, William C. | Richmond | VA | 1881 | 1911 or later
Carter, Edward R. | Richmond | VA | 1891 | 1911 or later
Crump, Josiah (10) | Richmond | VA | 1871 | 1887
Forrester, Clarence S. | Richmond | VA | 1899 | 1907
James, William H. | Richmond | VA | 1891 | 1903
Paul, Robert A. | Richmond | VA | 1891 | 1901
Roane, Peter | Richmond | VA | 1870 | 1880
Wright, William T. | Richmond | VA | 1891 | 1911 or later

Endnotes:

1. Listed here are Post Office clerks who were employed by the United States Post Office Department. Only clerks at the largest Post Offices were government employees; most Post Office clerks were employees of the Postmaster. There are no federal records on Postmasters’ employees.
2. Jesse C. Duke later served in the Railway Mail Service.
3. Scipio A. Jordon/Jordan later served as a letter carrier at the Little Rock Post Office.
4. John W. Curry later served as a letter carrier at the Washington, D.C., Post Office.
5. George W. Evans later served as a letter carrier at the Louisville Post Office.
6. According to the April 29, 1894, issue of the Boston Daily Globe, William H. Dupree was the manager of Station A in the South End and oversaw the work of 26 carriers and clerks. He was one of Boston’s highest-paid postal employees at the time.
7. John K. Crump transferred to the Railway Mail Service in 1878.
8. Allen D. Wood previously served as a letter carrier at the New York Post Office.
9. Simon Douglas later served as a letter carrier at the Dayton Post Office.
10. According to Eric Foner's Freedom's Lawmakers:  A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction, Josiah Crump was head of the mailing division. 

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