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Norwich, Connecticut
including Norwichtown, Taftville, Yantic, Chelsea Landing
Mayors, First Selectmen, Postmasters, Collectors of Internal Revenue

Mayors of Norwich, 1784-2012 (may be incomplete!)
Benjamin Huntington as of 1784-96 Calvin Goddard as of 1814 James Lanman as of 1831 John Breed as of 1845 William A. Buckingham as of 1849-50 Lafayette S. Foster 1851-52 William A. Buckingham as of 1856-57 Lorenzo Blackstone as of 1867 Increase W. Carpenter as of 1887-88 S. Ashbel Crandall 1888-92 Calvin L. Harwood as of 1893-96 Frederic L. Osgood as of 1897 Charles F. Thayer 1900-08 Costello Lippitt 1908-10 Charles F. Thayer as of 1911 Allyn L. Brown as of 1917-19 Jeremiah J. Desmond as of 1920 Herbert M. Lerou as of 1921-22 Milo R. Waters as of 1926-28 Lee R. Robbins as of 1929-31 Edward G. Moran as of 1932-35 William J. Fitzgerald as of 1940-41 Richard L. Norman as of 1943 James J. Mullins as of 1947 Richard F. Marks as of 1949-51 Philip A. Johnson as of 1953 Peter A. Nystrom as of 2010-12

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1851 Jun 2: Lafayette S. Foster (Whig), elected.

    First Selectmen of Norwich, 1888-1957 (may be incomplete!)
    Thurston B. Lillibridge as of 1888 James A. Brown as of 1896-97 Archibald S. Spalding as of 1899 Arthur D. Lathrop as of 1901-09 Albert W. Lillibridge as of 1910-11 Casper K. Bailey as of 1919-22 William S. Murray as of 1926-27 Theodore J. Richard as of 1947-49 Thomas F. Dorsey as of 1950 Clarence A. Lillibridge as of 1954-56 Viola J. Buddington as of 1957

    Postmasters at Norwich, 1827-1976 (may be incomplete!)
    Charles Kinney 1827-29 William L'Hommedieu 1829-42 Samuel M. Downer 1842-43 Enoch C. Chapman 1843-44 John H. Townsend 1844-45 William L'Hommedieu 1845-49 John Dunham 1849-53 John W. Stedman 1853-61 Henry H. Starkweather 1861-66 Charles M. Coil 1866-70 Enoch G. Bidwell 1870-86 Charles S. Avery 1886-89 William Caruthers 1889-94 Stephen H. Hall 1894-98 William Caruthers 1898-1915 John P. Murphy 1915-23 Casper K. Bailey 1923 Casper K. Bailey 1923-36 Walter P. Moran 1936-59 Diogenes Peter John 1959-61 Richard J. Marks 1961-66 Richard J. Marks 1966-76

    Norwichtown

    Postmasters at Norwichtown, 1901 (may be incomplete!)
    Herbert W. Hale as of 1901

    Taftville

    Postmasters at Taftville, 1901 (may be incomplete!)
    James Graham as of 1901

    Yantic

    Postmasters at Yantic, 1901 (may be incomplete!)
    Samuel Harrison as of 1901

    Chelsea Landing

    Postmasters at Chelsea Landing, 1802-27 (may be incomplete!)
    Jacob DeWitt 1802-09 John DeWitt 1809-23 Charles Kinney 1823-27

    Norwich

    U.S. Collectors of Internal Revenue at Norwich, 1869-79 (may be incomplete!)
    Joseph Selden 1869-79

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