PI 168 Description:
70. RECORD OF THE COMMISSIONING AND APPOINTMENT OF POSTMASTERS. 1889-1908. 68 vols. 21 ft.
The record appears to have been compiled under the Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General from 1889 to 1906 in connection with the bonding and commissioning of postmasters. In 1906 this function was transferred to the First Assistant Postmaster General, and after a short time the record was discontinued. The record contains names, dates of appointment, commissions, and salaries of postmasters; names of post offices; names of counties where located; dates of establishment, discontinuance, and reestablishment; name and site changes; and dates of establishment of rural delivery service where post offices were discontinued. Arranged alphabetically by State and thereunder by post office. The volumes include some information not contained in the series described in entry 69 and should be used in conjunction with that series.
The online NARA catalog has a different description than the one above from PI 168. Here is the current online catalog description:
The series contains names, dates of appointment, commissions, and salaries of postmasters; names of post offices; names of counties where they were located; dates of establishment, discontinuance, and reestablishment; name and sit changes; and dates of establishment of rural delivery service where post offices were discontinued.
The series was initially compiled by the First Assistant Postmaster General until 1889, by the Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General from 1889 to 1906, and again by the First Assistant Postmaster General in 1906 when responsibility for the bonding and commissioning of postmasters was returned to that office.
National Archives Identifier (NAID): 607176
This Series is not online.
Nara Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/609176
This Series has not been microfilmed.
Sample Pages from Utah:
Jeanette’s Sample Citation:
John Gilman Stilwell postmaster appointment, “Record of Appointments of Postmasters: Utah,” 2 April 1901; Record of the Commissioning and Appointment of Postmasters; Record Group 28: Records of the Post Office Department; National Archives, Washington, D.C.