POSTMASTERS IN TRAILL COUNTY - 1874-1971

ALHALSTEAD (MURRAY)

Name Date Appointed
J. H. McVeety 2/3/1892
Frank A. West 12/7/1892
12/23/1897
Andrew C. Ulland 2/16/1898

BELLMONT (FROG POINT)

Name Date Appointed
David Ray 6/4/1877
Robert Ray 8/20/1879
Swen K. Knutson 1/30/1894

BLANCHARD

Name Date Appointed
Douglas Robertson 11/29/1880
4/10/1887
Oscar Wick 1/15/1887
Charles Ellingson 1/14/1891
Frank Briggs 5/31/1893
William A. McCain 5/25/1895
Harry H. Carr 4/15/1897
Alfred A. Bruton 5/27/1903
Octavius Bonnell 8/8/1907
Ida F. Bonnell 2/27/1915
Ivar Seim 5/27/1919
Mrs. Alice Reinan 4/1/1941
10/28/1941
Lowell A. Seim 3/5/1942

BLOOMFIELD

Name Date Appointed
Jonas Ostlund 3/24/1879

BUXTON

Name Date Appointed
Arne A. Moen 11/8/1880
Tollef H. Woldy 11/10/1885
6/8/1894
Lois Thompson 6/5/1889
1/31/1891
6/1/1891
Henry A. Sorley 7/27/1891
7/27/1892
Budd Reeve, Jr. 12/13/1895
3/20/1917
Arthur G. Sorlie 4/2/1898
Oluf Langseth 12/22/1899
Eddie O. Nestoss 12/22/1908
Peter C. Balkan 11/3/1914
Selmer Erfjord 1/23/1920
2/17/1928
2/17/1932
Roald B. Halvorson 2/18/1936
6/5/1936
6/4/1940
Maurice A. Ellingrud 5/11/1954
8/29/1957
Orlean Knutsvig 2/5/1960
Mrs. Thelma A. Hovet 10/2/1964
3/30/1965

CALEDONIA

Name Date Appointed
Asa Sargeant 10/19/1875
Samuel H. Morgan 6/1/1880
Peter Herbrandson 1/10/1882
4/30/1890
William B. Johnson 1/14/1886
Erik N. Falk 2/18/1886
William P. Cleveland 9/26/1896
Joseph P. Clark 1/22/1903
Albert C. Corliss 3/26/1906
Rosa H. Johnson 10/27/1909
Ed A. Butterfield 9/15/1910
Josephine McDonald 7/30/1924
John M. McDonald 5/1/1934
5/25/1934
Walter Francis Floberg 11/10/1961
3/29/1962

CLIFFORD

Name Date Appointed
George A. Swaren 2/15/1883
Andrew H. Swaren 11/20/1885
Fred O. Folden 12/19/1890
6/7/1906
Orrin L. Bowen 12/6/1892
Anton Kraabel 5/11/1897
Waller Ovrom 7/7/1902
Seburn J. Cox 11/1/1922
9/19/1931
Tollas M. Langager 1/1/1947
Einar H. Hilton 2/6/1948
Eleanore C. Hilton 4/9/1958
E. Clifton Arneson 6/12/1959

COMSTOCK

Name Date Appointed
Asa Morgan 9/14/1880

CUMMINGS (CUMINGS)

Name Date Appointed
William Comfort 1/26/1881
Dow B. Wilbur 10/9/1882
1/12/1887
Milo Meeker 8/3/1885
Christen T. Forthun 3/5/1892
Edwin U. Upson 6/18/1896
Ezra C. Graham 5/29/1897
Darius D. Williams 11/24/1899
Burnett L. Uyers 6/1/1905
Burnett L. Myers 3/15/1922
Carl Gunlickson 8/17/1925
Esther Gunlickson 2/26/1926
Martin M. Johnson 4/1/1931
6/26/1931
Milo M. McQueen 6/19/1934
4/15/1935
Evelyn M. Veen 6/13/1958
Vivian F. Howland 7/10/1959

DUANE

Name Date Appointed
Theodora M. Hurley 9/10/1894
Pasto Hillsboro 1/20/1904

ELM RIVER - (See QUINCY)

ENGER

Name Date Appointed
Bella Halland 7/15/1910

EYRESVILLE

Name Date Appointed
Joseph G. Eyres 11/8/1880
4/11/1881

FORK

Name Date Appointed
Even Larson 12/2/1879

FROG POINT - (See BELLMONT)

GALESBURG
See Page 50 of Footprints Across the Prairie

Name Date Appointed
Joseph S. Kemp 8/3/1882
Philip S. Houghton 6/14/1886
6/24/1886
Gilbert A. Moackrud 1/4/1896
Ole E. Lunde 3/7/1900
Ole H. Ness 7/9/1908
Jacob Omdahl - Page 297
Burial
10/16/1913
Gusta A. Hongslo (Mrs. John Soholt - Page 339)
Burial
10/3/1927
2/17/1928
116/1932
Edwin O. Moe 7/13/1932
8/10/1933
Joseph M. Moen 10/16/1935
3/17/1936
6/20/1936
6/6/1940
Mrs. Oline O. Moe 7/1/1944
5/17/1945
Helen O. Olstad 8/31/1958
Alton M. Bjelverud 7/2/1960

HAGUE

Name Date Appointed
John A. Hague 3/31/1882
Richard W. Wright 4/18/1884
Alton R. Dalrymple 5/29/1888

HARTSLAND

Name Date Appointed
Ole N. Sunby 5/20/1879

HATTON

Name Date Appointed
Lawrence O. Fisk 12/19/1881
Sarah Thompson 6/28/1889
Sam Thompson 4/22/1891
Theodore Tronson 6/24/1896
Tobias R. Tobiason 11/18/1899
Adolph P. Johnson 10/29/1909
H. M. Haakenson 1/25/1912
Olaf N. Hegge 11/18/1921
Tilda J. (Engelbretson) Flesche 6/20/1930
11/22/1934
Carl Solberg 1/3/1935
1/22/1935
6/29/1939
Kenneth E. Davidson 10/31/1962
Invold Leonard Hofstad 12/31/1962
10/2/1964
Cecil Garfield Cordahl 9/8/1964
Mrs. Eunice W. Stavens 11/17/1967
3/20/1971

HILLSBORO

Name Date Appointed
Asa Morgan 8/12/1880
Olin Anderson 2/24/1891
Manley R. Morgan 9/3/1885
1/5/1887
Charles W. Morgan 6/30/1888
A. G. Foogman 12/21/1893
Ole Howard 11/12/1897
James R. Carley 2/28/1902
Tom S. Farr 1/28/1910
10/3/1921
12/16/1929
Anna Carmody 1/27/1914
Francis Oscar Johnson 12/31/1933
5/15/1934
6/13/1938
2/15/1943
Norman J. Dahl 12/31/1951
8/5/1957

KELSO

Name Date Appointed
Augustus L. Wentworth 2/1/1882
1/22/1891
DeForest Conant 4/30/1883
George H. F. Johnson 10/2/1885
Robert B. Cox 11/21/1895
Rube S. Orrin 3/10/1915
Clark C. Dalrymple 3/10/1915
Albert J. Piers 4/26/1921
Hjalmar H. Moen 5/19/1924
Ole J. Dammen 5/16/1916
Frank Roderick ( Rodeike ) 57/9/1925
7/28/1925
Clara Lindeman 1/26/1933
Lois M. French 3/31/1955
5/27/1955
Mrs. Lucille Henn 3/31/1956
7/25/1956
Leo Frederic Henn 6/30/1967

MAYVILLE

Name Date Appointed
Andrew Hanson 1876
Ole Olson 8/2/1877
Jno Chantland 1/27/1879
6/20/1883
12/20/1883
Daniel D. Murray 10/27/1885
1/5/1887
Elmer I. Smith 2/24/1891
Iver Chantland 4/23/1892
Moses A. Westcott 5/11/1894
David Larin 7/7/1898
J. M. Stewart 6/26/1909
Iver O. Fosse 6/5/1912
Della C. Tolan 7/11/1916
Leif O. Fjeld 1/20/1922
1/28/1930
John E. Hunter 6/12/1934
6/13/1938
2/15/1943
Eleanor A. Morey 5/1/1971

MURRAY - (See ALHALSTEAD)

NEWBURGH

Name Date Appointed
Halvor Berg 6/20/1877
Joseph H. Berg 3/10/1881

PORTLAND

Name Date Appointed
James D. McKenzie 1/19/1882
Hilmar A. Langlie 12/11/1883
Henry Thompson 1/10/1887
Hans Anderson Foss 1/28/1887
Ole H. Kiev (Klev) 10/13/1887
T. G. Anderson 11/9/1889
John B. Steen 5/4/1891
John J. Warley 5/23/1893
Thomas Pomer (Power) 3/2/1898
James Power 1/9/1900
4/1/1925
S. K. Kringlie 5/10/1916
Carl E. Knutson 2/1/1923
Harry Solberg 9/1/1925
12/16/1929
Joseph G. Kringlie 12/31/1933
1/18/1935
6/29/1939
Leonard I. Aamold 4/1/1948
6/1/1949
9/30/1949
Alfred Domier 1/10/1958
Harley E. Ludwig 8/27/1959

QUINCY (ELM RIVER)

Name Date Appointed
Fred Freebel 3/18/1874
George H. F. Johnson (Page 108) 2/16/1880
12/20/1883
9/7/1893
George W. Pratt 9/19/1881
Arthur Lewis 10/13/1881
C. K. Lee 12/19/1882
Janet Blackball 11/19/1885
Charles W. MacCarthy 9/2/1886
Margaret Johnson 11/13/1890

REYNOLDS

Name Date Appointed
Henry A. Reynolds 5/26/1881
Benjamin F. Lavalley 7/31/1885
9/11/1895
Charles R. Lavalley 1/18/1890
Joseph Thompson 2/25/1891
Walter Turnbull 9/17/1891
Alvin B. Hilliard 11/29/1899
Robert Thompson 1/31/1910
Kenneth B. Williams 1/23/1913
J. F. McMenamy 3/19/1914
Helen D. Thompson 3/18/1919
F. A. Fair 10/16/1919
Ernest C. Lebacken 5/4/1921
12/18/1925
Orlando J. Lebacken 3/18/1926
2/4/1931
Harry Jerome Mealy 8/15/1935
1/19/1940
Daniel Francis McMenamy 11/1/1944
3/2/1949
Joseph A. Scholand 2/15/1951
7/30/1955
Mrs. Mae A. Lebacken 6/14/1957
6/2/1959
Orlando A. Lebacken 7/2/1958
Mrs. Pearl M. Berthold 5/12/1961
Donald B. Tweten 6/17/1963

SAFFORD

Name Date Appointed
Augustus L. Wentworth 1/3/1881

STONY POINT

Name Date Appointed
Jonas Ostlund 6/20/1877

WEIBLE

Name Date Appointed
Bryan L. Hill 10/29/1883
7/8/1884
David M. McSparron 5/17/1890
Janell S. Weible 11/23/1893
Thorval C. Jahr 10/14/1904

Sources:
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, National Archives
Portland Diamond Jubilee 1882-1957 Publication
A History of Hatton, North Dakota 1884-1959 Publication
Footprints Across The Prairie, Galesburg Centennial 1882-1982
Hillsboro, North Dakota, The First Hundred Years 1881-1891
A Saga of Two Cities, Mayville-Portland - 1881-1981
North Dakota Place Names by Douglas Wick