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Mayors and Postmasters of Buckhannon, West Virginia


Mayors of Buckhannon, 1934-83 (may be incomplete!)
Henry R. Gay as of 1934 Thomas L. Stockert, Jr. as of 1941-42 Henry R. Gay as of 1943-44 James L. Harvey as of 1945-46 J. D. Hinkle as of 1947-50 Fred S. Ballard as of 1951 J. D. Hinkle, Jr. as of 1965-67 William R. Short as of 1977-83


Postmasters at Buckhannon, 1863-1971 (may be incomplete!)
Comodore P. Rohrbough 1863-64 Charles D. Tull 1864-66 Sylvester B. Phillips 1866 Charles D. Tull 1866-67 Hugh D. Murphy 1867-69 Seth Williams 1869-77 Floyd Leonard 1877-78 Ambrose B. Clarke 1878-85 Thomas G. Brady 1885-88 Wade H. Fisher 1888-89 Clark W. Heavner 1889-94 William Mearns 1894-98 Erskine W. Martin 1898-1902 Harrison A. Darnall 1902-14 Leonidas W. Bartlett 1914-22 J. Lee Heavner 1922-23 J. Lee Heavner 1923-27 John B. Hilleary 1927-33 Wilson P. Barlow 1933-34 Wilson P. Barlow 1934-39 Alice Barlow 1939-40 Charles R. Byrne 1940-63 Henry E. Harkins 1963-66 Henry E. Harkins 1966-71


Buckhannon
(became part of West Virginia 1863)

Postmasters at Buckhannon, 1804-63 (may be incomplete!)
John Jackson 1804-15 Edward H. Jackson 1816-21 Jacob I. Jackson 1821-28 William W. Jackson 1828-30 Enoch Gibson 1830-32 Henry F. Westfall 1832-52 Samuel Spitler 1852-53 David S. Haselden 1853-54 Thomas A. Janney 1854-57 Tillotson Janney 1857-61 Comodore P. Rohrbough 1861-63

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