Reception in honor of Timothy O. Howe given by Marshall Jewell

12/07/1882 |

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Marshall Jewell gave a reception in honor of Timothy O. Howe, A. D. Hazen, and David B. Parker.

Members of Jewell’s family: Charles A. Jewell, Lyman B. Jewell, Pliny Jewell, and William H. Strong.
Government and state officials: Hobart Bigelow, William H. Bulkeley; George G. Sumner, Morgan G. Bulkeley, Nathaniel Shipman, William B. Franklin, John C. Kinney, C. C. Strong,
Journalists of Hartford: Henry T. Sperry
Connecticut postmasters appointed by Ulysses S. Grant: A. Dickinson, N. D. Sperry, E. G. Sidwell, W. H. Tubbs, L. M. Hubbard, P. P. Wilson, Philo Hall, Charles Griswold, H. E. Gates, J. R. Clark, L. S. Platt, Cornelius Hoyt, D. A. Baldwin, C. F. Whiton, S. M. Norton, E. A. Hough, E. D. Hall, E. F. Tomlinson, H. S. Ives, J. Hemmingway, W. D. Cheney, E. T. Gates, J. D. Cooke, H. L. Roberts, James Walden
Postmasters from outside of Connecticut: S. Tobey, H. G. Pearson, H. C. Lee
Individuals doing business with the postal service: Maro S. Chapman, S. A. Hubbard, William H. Goodrich, J. A. Spalding, L. B. Plimpton, F. W. Plimpton, J. N. Wilsey, and Elisha Morgan.

I think I have all of the attendees sorted correctly by category of invitation. Maybe someday I’ll verify everyone!

“There are about fifty ‘presidential post offices’ in the state, and a large number of these postmasters were present.”

“The occasion was a very pleasant one.”

Unattributed. “Visit of postmaster-general Howe,” Hartford Daily Courant, December 8, 1882, page 2.

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