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Postmasters of Smyrna, Delaware


Postmasters at Smyrna, 1790-1972 (may be incomplete!)
Thomas Hale 1790-97 James Morris 1797-98 Solomon Dawson 1798-1807 Jacob Pennington 1807-29 John S. Lambdin 1829-40 William Ringgold 1840-41 David Lockwood 1841-45 James Legg 1845 Peter Wynne 1845-49 William Wilds 1849-52 William H. Baggs 1852-53 William Wilds 1853 Ezekiel I. Galt 1853-56 Marion Green 1856-57 Benjamin Donoho 1857-61 Jonathan Emerson 1861-73 Thomas Carrow 1873-75 William H. Baggs 1875-85 John H. Bewley 1885-89 Thomas Jefferson, Jr. 1889-93 Samuel J. Reynolds 1893-98 Thomas B. Megear 1898-1903 Thomas Jefferson, Jr. 1903-13 Alfred L. Cummins 1913-23 Frederick J. Dodson 1923-27 Alfred L. Hudson 1927-31 George H. Wright 1931-36 Robert H. Denney 1936-37 Robert H. Denney 1937-39 Louise Denney 1939-40 Davis H. Bell 1940-43 Mary S. Bell 1943-44 Mary S. Bell 1944-46 Mary S. Goldsborough 1946-65 Ollie F. Loose 1965 Ollie F. Loose 1965-72

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