The Political Graveyard: Columbia City, Indiana

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Columbia City, Indiana
including Whitley Court House
Mayors, Postmasters

Mayors of Columbia City, 1942-63 (may be incomplete!)
Garland F. Stickler 1956-63

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1942 Nov 3: James Brown (Rep), elected.

1963 Nov 5: Ira C. Webber (Rep), elected; Garland F. Stickler (Dem), defeated.

Postmasters at Columbia City, 1854-1972 (may be incomplete!)
Lewis Dowell 1854 Warren Mason 1854 Joseph A. Berry 1854-56 Ignatius Hook 1856 Charles Ruck 1856-57 Samuel Minor 1857-59 Simon H. Wunderlick 1859-61 Warren Mason 1861-65 John T. Drury 1865-66 Albert F. Ruck 1866-69 Orson H. Woodworth 1869-84 John W. Baker 1884-85 Eli W. Brown 1885-89 George S. Meely 1889-93 John Adams 1893-97 Wallace W. Williamson 1897-1906 John W. Baker 1906-14 John W. Brand 1914-22 Job C. Burnworth 1922-24 Job C. Burnworth 1924-33 Ervin Sell 1933-34 Ervin Sell 1934-49 Harry G. Bollinger 1949-50 Harry G. Bollinger 1950-64 Garland F. Stickler 1964-65 Garland F. Stickler 1965-72

Whitley Court House
(renamed Columbia City)

Postmasters at Whitley Court House, 1842-54 (may be incomplete!)
David E. Long 1842-45 James B. Edwards 1845-47 Joseph H. Pratt 1847-49 James Wallace 1849-50 Adam Y. Hooper 1850-52 Warren Mason 1852-54

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