Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1975.044.51 |
Object Name |
Clipping, Newspaper |
Reference code |
US SPHi 1975.044.51 |
Title |
So. Portland mail carrier ends 37th year on same route |
Date |
Circa 1938 |
Scope & Content |
Joseph Dearborn of 169 Ocean Street, South Portland, Maine, retired after working for 37 years as a mail carrier on the same route in South Portland. He was the last member of the original force of city carriers which consisted of I.N. Stanley, James Harrington, Walter Starling, Harrison Redlon, and Joseph Dearborn. Originally appointed a substitute carrier in the Portland office on November 30, 1900, he received a regular appointment to South Portland just two days later as what was then called a mounted carrier, apparently a hang-over from Colonial days when a mail man was on horseback. Dearborn had a horse and buggy, however, and drove his route in much the fashion of present-day rural delivery men - with the important exception that he was required to stop, climb out of the buggy, and carry the mail to the front door of each house. After three months or so, Dearborn became one of the regular postmen out of the South Portland branch post office, when the alterations incident to its location in the Masonic building were completed. |
Search Terms |
South Portland Post Office Masonic building |
Subjects |
Mail Mail service Mailmen |
People |
Harrington, James F. |
Site # |
192 |
Site Name - For More Information |
South Portland Post Office |