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First Postmaster of Minturn, a village on Swan's Island, ca. 1910

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… for the compensation of the postmaster and mail carrier The pay was so small that great difficulty was experienced in getting a mail carrier and it…"

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President Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1862

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… was a farmer and East North Yarmouth's first mail carrier at the turn of the century. His daughter Charlotte became a schoolteacher and taught for…"