Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-02-24 | Page 1 | Postmaster in One Town for Forty-Five Years

postmaster IN ONE TOWN FOR FORTY FIVE YEARS dubuque iowa feb 24 the post office at campion delaware comity iowa is to be discontinued it has an unique record on sept 1 1857 A V brown was appointed postmaster and has held the on ever since ilia commission has never been revoked the men who signed ins bond are still and on his bond his wife has been hh deputy through all these years and the office i still in the building where it was first located in 1857 iio is believed to be the oldest postmaster in iowa owing to rural mail delivery the office will be dropped from alie list