IDAHO COUNTY POST OFFICES

POSTMASTERS & POST MISTRESSES

 Theses were taken from transcribed from various sources.  Please let me know of any additions or corrections.

 

ADAMS

Established       June 5, 1900                 Mary E. Pugh

                        July 27, 1906                Maggie Moore

                        October 19, 1906         Mrs Jennie Sawyer

Discontinued     September, 14, 1918

Mail to Grangeville

This was located at Adams Ranger Station, in the Nezperce

National Forest south of Grangeville on the Grangeville-Salmon

Road.  There are still forest service cabins there.

 

ARGIE

Established       August 28, 1913            Simon A. Willey

Rescinded        January 6, 1914

 

BOLES

Established       October 28, 1911         Dottie J. Boles

                        March 20, 1916            Dottie J. Sallee

                        May 2, 1924                 Carol Wright

                        November 20, 1935      Iola Jess

                        September 10, 1937      Lester Wright

                        March 18, 1938            Coral Wright

                        December 31, 1945      Francis Wright

                        June 15, 1948               Roger Jobe

                        June 30, 1950               Marguerite Albro

Discontinued     October 31, 1950

Mail to Cottonwood

 

BRADY

Established       June 4, 1909                 Dave Rea

Discontinued     February, 28, 1911

Mail to Goff

 

BREWER

Established       April 9, 1914                 Annie Brewer

Discontinued     February 15, 1916       

Mail to Warren

 

BROW NSVILLE

Established       June 7, 1880                 Mrs. Mollie Coder        (first est. as Glenwood)

                        May 20, 1893               J. Beade

                        August 7, 1893 Warren Belcher            (renamed Brownsville )

Discontinued     January 4, 1894

Mail to Clearwater

 

BUFFALO

Established       April 4, 1899                 Richard Henley

Discontinued     November 15, 1900

Mail to Hump

Approximately 60 miles S.E. of Grangeville

 

BURGDORF

Established       June 1, 1898                 Fred Burgdorf              (first est. as Resort)

                        November 5, 1914        Jeanette Burgdorf

                        November 16, 1915      Jeanette Burgdorf         (renamed Burgdorf)

                        March 6, 1917              Grace Exum

                        January 7, 1920             Helen Luzaden

Closed             September 20, 1922     

Mail to McCall

Reopened         November 6, 1925        Oliver Manis

                        November 18, 1927      Andrew Craig

                        October 3, 1930           J. Harris

Discontinued     July 31, 1945

Mail to McCall

32 miles N.E. of McCall

 

CALLENDER

Established       November 13, 1900      Edgar Taylor

Discontinued     August 13, 1904

Mail to Hump

17 miles S.W. of Elk City

 

CANFIELD (on Doumecq Plains)

Established       1903

 

CARIBEL

Established       June 21, 1907               Edward Andrew

                        May 10, 1910               Nora Jenson

                        June 14, 1912               William Dismore

                        August 14, 1913            Nora Jenson

Discontinued     March 31, 1916

Mail to Kamiah

6 miles N.E. of Kamiah

 

CLEAR WATER (first called Independence Flat)

Established       February 27, 1872        John Silverwood

                        July 30, 1878                Herbert Wall                (in home of Mr. Wall)

                        June 30, 1890               Ben Cowling                 (in home of Mr. Cowling)

                        May 23, 1895               Allan Stephens  (changed to Clearwater

In home of Mr. Stephens)

                        May 4, 1896                 Lem (Bill) Williams       (In Baker Store & Hotel)

                        March 3, 1899              L. Whipple

                        April 20, 1899               Adeline Lister

                        February 5, 1900          Fada Murphy

                        March 19, 1901            Harry Baker

                        Date unknown              Fred Murphy

                        1955 to 1977               Hattie Grace Farris

Discontinued     1977

Mail to Kooskia

7 miles N.E. of Harpster

 

COLUMBUS (later called Tharp, then Fenn)

Established       December 12, 1895      Jacob Gross

                        September 11, 1897      Charles Musselman

Discontinued     April 8, 1898

Mail to Grangeville

7 miles N.W. of Grangeville

 

COMFORT

Established       October 7, 1903           Lawrence Phelan

                        June 15, 1904               Ernest Heath

                        March 22, 1906            Charles Smith

Discontinued     June 29, 1907

Mail to Warren

8 miles S.E. of Warren

 

CONCORD

Established       January 17, 1900           James Eldridge

                        January 19, 1909           William Allen

Discontinued     November 15, 1913

Mail to Orogrande

2 miles S.E. of Hump

 

COTTONWOOD

Established       July 1, 1875                  David Baldwin

Discontinued     November 13, 1876

Re-established  September 18, 1879      Harry Wilson

                        February 24, 1880        William Miller

                        November 7, 1882        Alfred Hovey

                        September 28, 1885      Farrington King

                        July 18, 1888                Albert Talkington

                        May 11, 1889               Miss Alice Turner

                        February 11, 1892        Hiram Robbins

                        April 13, 1897               William Nichols

                        September 7, 1900        Sam Libbey

                        October 8, 1907           W. Leroy Farnsworth

                        January 24, 1910           Susan Libbey

                        June 17, 1913               C.Greenough

                        March 16, 1917            J. Nash

                        November 26, 1920      Stella Campbell

                        February 21, 1922        Charles Johnston

                        August 23, 1926            Mrs. Charles Johnston

                        February 4, 1927          John Rooke

14 miles N.W. of Grangeville

 

CZISEK

Established       September 27, 1940

Discontinued     May 30, 1942

Mail to French Creek

 

DENVER

Established       June 30, 1892               Benjamin Morris

                        May 11, 1895               John Pulse

                        July 19, 1897                Edward Chase

                        July 20, 1900                Lottie Harper

                        November 20, 1902      Lizzie Ellenwood

                        December 14, 1909      Nettie Britton

                        September 12, 1910      Abraham Clayton

                        May 8, 1914                 Myrtle Bennett 

Discontinued     July 15, 1914

Mail to Tharp (which later became Fenn)

3 miles N.E. of Fenn

 

DIXIE

Established       July 31, 1896                James Turner

                        January 29, 1898           Thomas Ballman

                        June 9, 1903                 Henry Hazlett

                        September 24, 1908      Edward Geist              

                        March 31, 1910            Frank Duncan

                        September 3, 1912        Howard Powelson

                        October 21, 1925         Leslie Powelson

Discontinued     April 30, 1960

Mail to Elk City

25 miles South of Elk City

 

DIXIE – RURAL STATION OF ELK CITY

Established       May 1, 1960

                                                            Bob & Evelyn Litchfield

 

DRYDEN

Established       November 14, 1905      Lloyd Whiting

Discontinued     July 28, 1907

Mail to Greencreek

6 miles N. of Greencreek

 

EAKIN

Established       October 8, 1906           Ella Eakin

Discontinued     June 30, 1909  

Mail to Dixie

 

ELK CITY

Established       November 25, 1862      M. Mossman

                        March 30, 1863            John Flanagan

                        September 28, 1864      J. Viloss

                        March 14, 1865            Louis Duckworth

                        September 28, 1868      John Bramley

                        December 7, 1868        William Campbell

Discontinued     October 22, 1869

Re-established  August 7, 1871 Calby Collins

                        July 6, 1874                  John Ziegle

                        December 26, 1876      Bennett Bernard

                        September 10, 1877      James Witt

                        October 21, 1892         Giles Motton

Discontinued     June 1, 1881

Re-established  June 2, 1882                 Henry Torman

Discontinued     March 5, 188 ?

Reopened         August 14, 1888            Bradford Stuart

                        December 14, 1893      Nathaniel Pettibone

                        June 26, 1897               Mary Parr

                        August 2, 1898 Mary Bennett

                        February 18, 1902        Gardner Porter

                        May 4, 1903                 W. Cook

                        December 31, 1903      Charles Hofsteller

                        July 19, 1904                James McCaffrey

                        September 20, 1906      Emma Minert

                        November 22, 1909      Daisy Strong

                        July 8, 1913                  Mrs. Vida Perry

50 miles S. of Grangeville

 

FENN (first called Columbus, then Tharp, then Fenn)

Established       June 8, 1909

                        June 23, 1915               Edith Weber                 (renamed Fenn)

Discontinued     July 31, 1957

7 miles N.W. of Grangeville                 

 

FENN RANGER STATION

Established       August 1, 1957

 

FERDINAND

Established       May 9, 1898                 Frank Becker

                        March 4, 1902              Mathias Fuchs

                        November 22, 1905      Frank Bieber

                        May 18, 1908               Anna Kinzer

                        March 18, 1913            Ellery Martin    

                        July 6, 1917                  Blanche Martin

                        October 11, 1929         Hattie Schroer

                        April 9, 1930                 Maude Leslie

7 miles N.W. of Cottonwood

 

FLORENCE CITY (Old Florence )

Established       November 25, 1862      Lewis Arnold

                        March 20, 1863            Charles Welch

                        May 30, 1863               James Alvord

                        January 29, 1866           Stephen Farror

                        November 5, 1866        Stephen Fenn               (renamed Meadow Creek)

                        July 5, 1867                                                      (renamed Florence City )

                        December 2, 1867        Frank Hawthorn

                        September 7, 1868        William Rhett

Discontinued     July 11, 1871

                       

FLORENCE (New Florence , town was moved to keep from tunneling underneath)

Established       December 1, 1871        Andrew Floyd

                        June 11, 1875               Thomas Rhoads

                        April 17, 1879               M. McHale

                        July 7, 1879                  George Bannard

Discontinued     November 6, 1879

Re-established  June 6, 1881                 Charles Wilson

Discontinued     December 8, 1882       

Mail to Shearer’s Ferry

Reopened         October 3, 1895           John Clark

                        December 19, 1895      Francis Boyer

                        February 14, 1899        J. Smith

                        August 28, 1899            Alfred Sifton

                        June 2, 1901                 Mary Morris     (declined)

                        May 5, 1901                 G. Wright

                        September 10, 1901      John White

                        November 21, 1902      Orin Benson

                        June 14, 1909               Annie Benson

Discontinued     March 15, 1912           

Mail to Mt. Idaho

45 miles S. of Grangeville

 

FORDSON

Established       April 5, 1880                 Charles R. Wood

                        November 29, 1880      Harry Cone

 

FREEDOM (Fordson is believed to have been the same as Freedom. It was at the mouth of Slate Creek)

Established       date unknown

                        November 29, 1880      Harry Cone

                        May 11, 1885               Charles P Cone

                        November 14, 1893      Harry Cone

Closed             November 2, 1898       

Mail to Whitebird

Reopened         August 30, 1902            Josie Irven

                        August 24, 1903            John Nevin

Discontinued     January 15, 1908

10 miles S. of Whitebird

 

FRENCH CREEK

Established       May 8, 1914                 Elinore Harrington

Discontinued     September 30, 1915

Mail to Resort

Re-established  Date unknown

Discontinued     July 31, 1944

Mail to Riggins

 

GAGE

Established       December 28, 1894

Discontinued     October 15, 1913

Mail to Riggins

 

GLENWOOD

Established       June 7, 1880                 Mrs. Mollie Coder

                        May 20, 1893               J. Beade

                        August 7, 1893                                      (renamed Brownsville )

Discontinued     January 4. 1894

Reopened         May 3, 1901                 Flora Parker                 (renamed Glover)

                        July 11, 1904                Samuel Dean

                        October 31, 1904                                             (renamed Glenwood again)

Closed September 30, 1907

Mail to Kidder

Rescinded        September, 1907

                        November 1, 1907        William Saunders

                        September 18, 1911      Frank Lansing

                        October 21, 1912         John Harris

Discontinued     1933

12 miles E. of Kamiah

 

GLOVER

Established       May 3, 1901                 Flora Parker

                        July 11, 1904                Samuel Dean

                        October 31, 1904                                             (renamed Glenwood)

 

GOFF

Established       December 28, 1894      Ella Levander

                        February 14, 1899        John Levander

                        June 19, 1911               Sadie Levander

Discontinued     October 15, 1913

Mail to Riggins

7 miles N. of Riggins

 

GOLDEN

Established       March 7, 1910              John Ashpaugh

                        January 24, 1911           Andrew Johnson

                        November 5, 1914        Arthur Cooper

                        October 22, 1915         Andrew Johnson

Discontinued     May 6, 1966

Mail to Grangeville

Located on the South Fork highway going to Elk City

 

GRANGEVILLE

Established       July 7, 1876                  John Mitchell

                        November 2, 1877        William Pearson

                        September 30, 1878      Hiram Titman

                        July 28, 1881                J. Eccles

                        February 23, 1882        William Ferguson

                        September 18, 1882      Arthur Gordon

                        April 27, 1887               Edward Beck

                        May 9, 1893                 Levi Magee

                        May 12, 1897               Jacob Garber

                        December 14, 1904      Julia Garber

                        December 17, 1908      Nettie Carpenter

                        June 5, 1913                 L.A. Wisner

                        October 26, 1919         J. Peterson

                        April 23, 1924               Charles Simmons

                        May 12, 1924               John Eimers

                        January 15, 1928           Albert Edwards

50 miles N. of Riggins

80 miles S.E of Lewiston

 

GREENCREEK

Established       July 24, 1897                Barney Stubbins

                        September 16, 1904      Edward Dews

                        December 29, 1906      Anton Hoffman

6 miles N.W. of Cottonwood

 

GREGG

Established       June 3, 1898                 Henry Renshaw

                        January 14, 1901           Robert Renshaw

                        November 28, 1902      Ben Shaw

Discontinued     July 15, 1903

Mail to Kamiah

 

HALL

Established       March 12, 1894            Minnie Day

                        September 16, 1895      Herbert King

                        January 22, 1896           Sam Willey

                        August 26, 1896            Amasa Smead

Discontinued     June 14, 1899

Mail to Warren

 

HARPSTER

Established       June 15, 1895               Charles Hastings

                        June 8, 1896                 Henry Oliver

                        September 14, 1901      Oliver Lapp

                        January 21, 1914           Floyd Ferguson

Discontinued     July 15, 1951

13 miles N.E. of Grangeville

 

HART

Established       March 3, 1900              Louise Hart

Discontinued     April 15, 1902  

Mail to Stites

 

HUMP

Established       November 23, 1899      Frank Brown

                        January 3, 1901             Boyd Phelps Quivery

                        October 23, 1901         Albert Sifton Jr.

                        November 29, 1902      D. Shaw

Discontinued     September 30, 1905

Mail to Concord

 

JUMBO

Established       September 27, 1912      Lillian Collette

Closed March 31, 1913           

Mail to Concord

Reopened         August 7, 1914 Bernard Baerlocher

                        September 21, 1915      August Schultz

Discontinued     October 15, 1920        

Mail to Orogrande

 

KEUTERVILLE

Established       August 20, 1888            Henry Keuther

                        December 20, 1897      John Butner

                        August 24, 1898            James Mitchel

                        February 6, 1900          Anton Hendricks

                        July 21, 1905                Paul Burgund

                        May 11, 1908               Frederick Romain

                        October 4, 1910           Lizzie Fryer

                        July 17, 1918                Bernard Bunlcok

                        February 10, 1920        Lloyd Crosby

                        November 20, 1925      Michael Hilbert

Discontinued     February 14, 1964

6 miles S.W. of Cottonwood

 

KEUTERVILLE RURAL BRANCH OF COTTONWOOD

Established       February 15, 1964

 

KIDDER (Kidder Ridge)

Established       October 15, 1904         Issac Putman

                        July 28, 1905                Cyrus Kidder

                        March 31, 1906            Walter Hollinghead

                        August 21, 1907            James Cottier

                        March 6, 1909              Maude Hollinghead

Discontinued     September 30, 1910

Mail to Caribel

5 miles E. of Kamiah

 

KNOTT

Established       July 31, 1900                James Wiley

Rescinded        January 29, 1901

Reestablished   March 14, 1905            Alice Wiley

                        March 5, 1904              A.F. Reynolds

                        August 6, 1904 Charles Waldron

                        November 29, 1907      Merril Post

Discontinued     January 31, 1909

(this was by French Creek,  about 20 miles S.E.of Riggins)

 

KOOSKIA (first called Stuart)

Established       June 11, 1890               Mrs. Ella Turner          

                        1901                                                                Renamed Kooskia

                        May 24, 1908               S. J. Maynard

                        January 3, 1899             Elmer King

                        February 2, 1901          Charles Palmer

                        April 24, 1902               Paul Tyre

                        February 24, 1904        Charles Gilback

                        July 24, 1922                James Shaw

8 miles S. of Kamiah

 

KUPRO (first called Lorena)

Established       March 4, 1902

                        Date Unknown                                     Renamed Kupro

Discontinued     February 29, 1912       

Mail to Kooskia

 

 

LOWE (later Winona )

Established       July 1, 1898                  Norman Lowe

                        July 14, 1900                George Frances

Rescinded        September 15, 1900

                        September 27, 1902      Arthur McBoyle

                        April 27, 1906                                                   Renamed Winona

17 miles N.E. of Cottonwood

 

 

LOWELL (started as Syringa)

Established       May 18, 1896               Mary Stuart

                        May 10, 1905               Cora McLean

                        January 28, 1908           Harry Lowell                Moved & renamed Lowell

                        December 2, 1913        Clara Cleveland

                        March 24, 1921            Arthur Bagley

                        March 1, 1924              James Maska

                        January 13, 1926           Horace Chapman

                        October 28, 1927         Jeff Hendron

                        October 9, 1928           Alice Tyer                    Rescinded

                        June 10, 1930               William Allison

23 miles E. of Kooskia                  

LUCILLE

Established       February 24, 1899        George Curtis

                        January 16, 1901           Harry Southard

                        April 6, 1917                 James Carr

23 miles S. of Whitebird

 

LORENA

Established       March 4, 1902              Charles Palmer

                        December 18, 1903      Elmer Long

                        December 23, 1904      Frank Turner

                        October 15, 1910         Clyde Newland

                        March 14, 1903                                                Renamed Kupro

7 miles E. Kooskia

 

MANUEL RANCH

Established       February 25, 1874        John Manuel

Discontinued     November 13, 1876

Re-established  January 9, 1877

Discontinued     October 2, 1878

 

MOUNT IDAHO

Established       March 23, 1863            Loyal P. Brown

Discontinued     January 21, 1869

Re-established  July 27, 1870                Loyal P. Brown

                        June 5, 1878                 Frank A. Fenn

                        February 22, 1880        Margaret Lincoln

                        November 26, 1880      Mrs. Emma Cook

                        August 17, 1886            Matthew Truscott

                        November 12, 1890      Margaretta Rice            (did not serve)             

                                                            Matthew Truscott continued

                        February 9, 1899          R. L. Smith                   (did not serve)

                                                            Matthew Truscott continued

                        June 4, 1904                 John Byrom

                        May 6, 1907                 Maude Randall

                        May 43, 1909              Agnes Mays

                        June 19, 1911               Ethel Melkers

                        December 23, 1911      Margaretta Rice

                        November 28, 1913      Ida Deming

                        April 4, 1914                 Cora Farrons

                        June 22, 1914               Mary Hindman

                        June 1, 1917                 Daisy Smith

                        February 28, 1922        Rose Cummings

Discontinued     August 31, 1922

Mail to Grangeville

5 miles S.E. of Grangeville

 

MEADOW CREEK (first called Florence City )

Established       November 25, 1862

                        November 5, 1866        Stephen Fenn               Renamed Meadow Creek

                        July 5, 1867                                                      Renamed Florence  

MORRIS

Established        April 13, 1896                George Brown

Rescinded         May 18, 1896

 

MORRISON

Established        April 5, 1904                Albert Behne

Discontinued     September 29, 1906

Mail to Knox

 

NEWSOME

Established       1864

Discontinued 1929

30 miles E. of Grangeville

 

OHADI (notice it is Idaho spelled backwards)

Established       January 29, 1898           Mary Gregory

Discontinued     September 9, 1899       

Mail to Whitebird

 

OROGRANDE

Established       May 23, 1902               William Hogan

                        January 12, 1903           Joseph Powers

                        November 4, 1905        John Christopherson

                        April 25, 1907               James Colgrove

                        February 2, 1917          Unknown

                        April 11, 1918               James Montgomery

                        December 16, 1920      Leon DeBorde

                        April 4, 1921                 William Hogan

                        February 17, 1924        Francis Walker

                        November 11, 1924      Harry Harris

                        February 27, 1928        Hugh Dowling

                        October 4, 1928           Benjamin Rippleman

                        March 18, 1930            Harry Harris

Discontinued     November 30, 1957

Mail to Elk City

13 miles W.W. of Elk City

 

PITTSBURG ( Pittsburg Landing on the Snake River )

Established       May 18, 1905               Martha Wood

Closed             February 28, 1907       

Mail to Whitebird

Reopened         January 26, 1910           Anna Brownlee

Discontinued     August 15, 1913

Mail to Whitebird

 

POLLOCK ( Old Pollock was 5 miles N.W.)

Established       June 6, 1893                 Leander Banks

                        August 31, 1893            Angus McNeill

                        September 10, 1901      Thomas Pollock

                        June 10, 1902               Elijah Adsley

                        February 4, 1908          Charles Cadman

                        April 14, 1915               Ernest Adsley

                        February 21, 1919        Jennie Potter

9 miles S. of Riggins

RAYMOND

Established        December 114, 1892    Joseph A. Coverly

                        May 8, 1894                  Alex Reynolds

Discontinued    April 11, 1898

Mail to Elk City

 

RED RIVER HOT SPRINGS

Established       August 16, 1910            Emily Meinert

Discontinued     May 31, 1942

Mail to Elk City

 

RELIEF

Established       November 3, 1895        Richard Thomas

Discontinued     September 18, 1896

Mail to Elk City

 

RESORT

Established       June 1, 1898                 Fred Burgdorf

                        November 5, 1914        Jeannette Burgdorf

                        November 16, 1915                                          Renamed Burgdorf

This was also called Fred’s Warm Springs Resort

 

RICE CREEK

Established       June 24, 1915               James Hockersmith

Closed             June 30, 1917

Mail to Cottonwood

Reopened         December 21, 1922      Edwin Lancaster

                        July 23, 1924                Fannie Warden

Discontinued     date unknown

Mail to Cottonwood

 

RIGGINS

Established       July 9, 1901                  Richard Riggins

                        March 5, 1904              Leona Irwin

                        April 27, 1910               Issac Irwin

Closed             July 21, 1911

Mail to Goff

Reopened         March 3, 1913              Lewis Swartz

                        April 8, 1914                 Calvin White

                        July 30, 1918                Alberta Hillsley

50 miles S. of Grangeville

 

RUSTIC

Established       October 9, 1884           Franklin Shissler

Discontinued     October 2, 1895          

Mail to Cottonwood

 

ROOSEVELT

Established       February 19, 1902        William L. Cuddy

                        September 6, 1902        Joseph B. Randall

                        June 9, 1905                 Warren M. Dutton

                        December 15, 1906      Harry Austin

                        March 20, 1907            Benjamin Frances         (declined)

                        September 27, 1907      Gertrude Wayland

                        July 1, 1908                  Tirza Wayland

                        December 21, 1911      Esther Busby

Discontinued     September 30, 1915

Mail to Yellow Pine

23 miles N.E. of Yellowpine

 

SHEARER'S FERRY

Established        June 19, 1874            Frederick Shearer

Discontinued     January 18, 1876

Re-established  September 18, 1879

Closed              August 3, 1885

Reopened         June 17, 1886             J.F. Shearer

                        July 28, 1886               Frederick Shearer

                        April 28, 1888             Arthur Warden

Discontinued     May 21, 1888

Mail to Freedom

 

SLATE CREEK

Established       October 21, 1863      William Campbell

                         January 4, 1865

                         October 21, 1869        James Alvord

                         February 18, 1870       Michael STorms

Discontinued      May 4, 1870

Re-established   August 31, 1871          Dorman Noggle

                          November 16, 1874    Charles Cone

                          July 2, 1879                 Charles Wood

Discontinued      November 8, 1879

 

SPRING CAMP

Established       June 24, 1915               Myrtle Davidson

                        June 4, 1920                 Ellis Wilson

Discontinued     December 3, 1922

S.W. of Cottonwood

 

STATION (probably Switchback Station)

Established       December 24, 1900      Henry Campbell

Discontinued     December 31, 1901

Mail to Newsome

 

STITES

Established        May 11, 1900                Clara Shannon

                         October 7, 1901            Elmer Briley

                         March 14, 1903            Percy Ellis

                         February 9, 1915          Forest Leeper

                         May 15, 1916              Milo Starker

                         July 4, 1920                 Henry Oliver

                        December 1, 1921        Percy Ellis            

 

STEUNENBERG

Established       October 9, 1909           Gust Frong

Discontinued     July 29, 1910   

Mail to Ferdinand

 

STUART

Established        May 25, 1896            George Brown

                         January 15, 1898        Claude Patterson

                         April 8, 1898              Jacob Gross

                         February 27, 1899      Mary Patterson

                         June 30, 1900             Paul Tyre

Discontinued     April 24, 1902

Mail to Kooskia

 

SYRINGA

Established       May 18, 1896               Mary Stuart

                        May 10, 1905               Cora McLean

                        January 28, 1908                                               Moved and Renamed Lowell

TAHOE

Established       March 12, 1894            Savannah Bowles

                        April 20, 1904               Franklin Leitch

                        September 20, 1910      Loren Bodenhofer

Discontinued     January 31, 1912

Mail to Kooskia

 

THARP (first Columbus, then Tharp, then Fenn)

Established       June 8, 1909                 Frank Tharp

                        June 13, 10                  Louis Spangler

                        January 20, 1915           Edith Weber

                        June 23, 1915                                                   Renamed Fenn

 

THUNDERBOLT

Established       November 17, 1905      William Standatler

Discontinued     September 29, 1906

Mail to Knox

 

TOLO

Established       November 16, 1896      George Torch

Discontinued     June 30, 1911

Mail to Grangeville

 

WALL

Established       February 9, 1896          Jackson Cherebro

Rescinded        May 18, 1896

 

WARREN (was Washington first)

Established      January 28, 1868            

                       August 14, 1885            Victor Hexter        Renamed Warren

 

                       December 6, 1888         Edwin Robinson    

                       October 10, 1889          Walter Brown

                       November 1890             Bailey Chamberlain (this from a note in the Lewiston Teller)

                       April 28, 1893                Fred Morris

                        November 28, 1893      George Patterson

                       August 5, 1916               Marjorie Wood

                       September 15, 1917       Walter Martin

                       July 29, 1920                  Jesse Root

                      April 6, 1926                   Otis Morris

45 miles N.E. of McCall

 

WASHINGTON (later Warren)

Established        January 28, 1868        James Cronan

Discontinued     April 28, 1868

Re-established   July 27, 1870              C. Sears

                         December 6, 1870       Benjamin Morris

                         December 19, 1873     Aaron Friedmincke

                         August 19, 1880          Herman Segall

                         March 28, 1881          Victor Hexter

                        August 14, 1885                                            Renamed Warren 

WESTLAKE(first called Mason)

Established        February 14, 1889        William R. Dixon

                         April 27, 1893               William Rice            Renamed Westlake

                         July 30, 1897                 William Thomson

                         March 4, 1898                William Rice

Discontinued     January 15, 1900

Mail to Morrow

Reopened         March 7, 1900                Andrew Martinson

                              

 WHITEBIRD

Established       Novebmer 9, 1866            Arthur Chapman

                        July 15, 1867                     James Baker

                        September 20, 1869          George Bernard

Discontinued     August 27, 1874

Re-established   February 13, 1879            Nathan Earl

Discontinued     March 4, 1879

Reopened         December 23, 1888          Albert Bensching

Closed              March 19, 1890

Reopened         June 30, 1890                   Frank Fenn

                        November 5, 1891            Andrew McQuade

                        April 9, 1898                     Effie Taylor

                        November 8, 1910            Emily Chamberlain

                        December 5, 1911             Ida Riggs

                        September 15, 1913          James Lennon

                        May 7, 1917                     Manderville Ross

                        August 5, 1921                 Albert Reynolds

                        December 17, 1924          Effie Taylor

21 miles S.W. of Grangeville

 

WINONA (first called Lowe)

Established        July 1, 1898                                                            Started as Lowe

                        April 28, 1906                   Arthur McBoyle            Renamed Winona

                        December 17, 1906           Horace Musch

                        August 24, 1908                Felix Martzen                declined

                        November 28, 1908          William Lowe

                        December 10, 1913           William Nisson

                        June 15, 1918                     Harry Wise

                        April 7, 1919                      Frank Pickford

                        September 13, 1924           Herman Frinke

                        February 3, 1928                Mrs. Faye Fargo

                        April 25, 1929                    Ernest Jessup

Discontinued    July 31, 1945

Mail to Kamiah

9 miles S.W. of Kamiah

 

WOODLAND

Established        July 7, 1898                        Issac George

                        August 10, 1915                  Lorenzo George

                        September 25, 1918            O.C. Lansing                Declined

                        October 31, 1921                E. W. Arranta

                        December 14, 1921             Della Arranta

                        January 13, 1923                 Cecil Lyon

                        April 16, 1924                      Dallas Moon

                        February 13, 1928                Mrs. Mildred  Simler

                        November 18, 1940              Mrs. Mildred Johnson

Discontinued    November 13, 1957

Mail to Kamiah

10 miles N. of Kamiah

 

  

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