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) |
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