| Show Women In Postal Service eThe o e oThe The distinction of first appointing a woman postmaster does not belong to America nor is the employment of women women in the postal service a new Idea As early as 1548 1648 a woman postmaster postmaster post post- master was appointed to look after the malls mails of Braine le Ie Comte an important important im im- town of France In the tryIng tryIng tryIng try- try Ing times of the Thirty Years' Years war the principal office in the postal service service servo ice of Europe was held by a woman Alexandrine de Rue From 1628 to 1646 1646 she was in charge of the mails malls of of tl tile the e German empire the Netherlands Nether Nether- Netherlands lands Burgundy and Lorraine She was known as a master general of the mails malls In America Elizabeth Harvey was the first to hold a place in the postal department She had charge of or the letters in Portsmouth N. N N.- N. H. H Hf in inthe inthe the Jie beginning of the seventeenth cen cen- tury Lury A half century afterward Lydia Hill was placed in charge of or the postoffice post post- office in Salem Mass |
