PRESIDENT GRANT POSTMASTER GENERAL 1874 MARR LETTER CARRIERS PO SATCHELS SIGNED

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JAMES HENRY MARR
Widely known as the most useful and efficient man in the United States Post Office Department
(1810 - 1887)
POSTMASTER GENERAL APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT IN 1874,
ACTG POSTMASTER GENERAL 1870s-1887
&
CHIEF CLERK IN THE OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASST PMG 1869-1887,
During Marr’s service he was many times Acting Postmaster General, and President Grant appointed him Postmaster General in 1874, pending the arrival of Marshall Jewell from Russia to accept the Postmaster Generalship.
The making and unmaking of 50,000 post-offices in the Union was generally deferred to Marr’s judgment during his 55+ years in the public service from 1831-1887.
During the Civil War, frequent efforts were made to dislodge Marr from office, on the ground that he was a Democrat.
All these efforts proved ineffectual against his record of ability, faithfulness and honesty.
On the contrary, the United States Congress passed a law giving Marr life tenure of his office!
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HERE’S A
LETTER SIGNED
BY MARR ON “
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL
” LETTERHEAD, 1p., DATED AT WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 23
rd
1882 TO ISRAEL HOWELL, ESQ., POSTMASTER AT TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, IN PART:
“…
John Boyle, of New York, N.Y. has been instructed to send you nine (9) letter carriers satchels with bill for the same.
You will pay .99 each, for them and charge the amount to your carriers incidental expense account…”
The document measures 8” x 10” and is in VG+ condition.
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THE LATE JAMES H. MARR
FOR OVER 55 YEARS IN PUBLIC SERVICE.
One of the most notable characters in the service of the Departments at Washington has just disappeared, in the death of James H. Marr, the vulnerable Chief Clerk in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster General. He died at his residence on H Street, N.W. in the city on the 25th ult., after an honorable well spent life of over fifty five years in the service of the Post Office Department as a clerk and acting Postmaster-General.
Mr. Marr was born in Charles County, Maryland, Nov. 4th 1810 and was brought up on his father's farm. On 1 May 1832, he married Sarah A. Stewart in Washington, D.C. They were the parents of:
Arthur Marr
Helen Marr
James H. Marr
Josephine Sarah (Marr) McLeran
Margaret Aietta (Marr) Lemerle
Samuel Stewart Marr
Walter Marr
William Marr
Maron Marr
James Donelan Marr
James Henry Marr
Birth
4 Nov 1810, Charles County, Maryland, USA
Death
25 Apr 1887 (aged 76, District Of Columbia, USA
Burial
Mount Olivet Cemetery
, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia
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