The Political Graveyard: Downingtown, Pennsylvania

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Downingtown, Pennsylvania
including East Downingtown
Burgesses, Postmasters

Burgesses of Downingtown, 1923-60 (may be incomplete!)
J. Harry Reed as of 1923 Creston I. Shoemaker as of 1960

Postmasters at Downingtown, 1796-1970 (may be incomplete!)
Hunt Downing 1796-1816 William Frame 1816-23 Jesse Evans 1823-27 Isaac Downing 1827-36 Isachar Price 1836-41 Thomas Hutchinson 1841-46 William B. Hunt 1846-49 James Lockhart 1849-53 Thomas Scott 1853-60 Richard D. Wells 1860-85 William McFarlan 1885-90 Nathan Wilson 1890-94 David Morgan Cox 1894-98 Jesse H. Roberts 1898-1910 Josiah Philips 1910-15 William A. Irwin 1915-21 Frederick W. McClure 1922 Frederick W. McClure 1922 Warren S. Henderson 1922-24 Warren S. Henderson 1924-25 Howard E. Harvey 1925 Howard E. Harvey 1925-26 William R. Colflesh 1926-28 T. Vance Miller 1928 T. Vance Miller 1928-34 Robert C. Laird 1934-35 Robert C. Laird 1935-57 John M. Welsh 1957-58 John M. Welsh 1958-64 John Francis Helm 1964-66 John Francis Helm 1966-70

East Downingtown
(now part of Downingtown)

Postmasters at East Downingtown, 1890-1926 (may be incomplete!)
Charles W. Chandler 1890-94 William McFarlan 1894-99 Joseph H. Downing 1899-1911 Horace S. Carpenter 1911-15 Levi A. Moore 1915-18 John P. Bargford 1918-19 Pearl C. Zittle 1919-23 William R. Colflesh 1923-24 William R. Colflesh 1924-26

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