Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — Forty-Eight Years a Postmaster. [ARTICLE]

Forty-Eight Years a Postmaster.

John Datesman, who died at West Milton, Pa., last meek, at the age of 85 years, was postmaster of that town for fifty-eight consecutive years, and was believed to have held office louger, and from an earlier period, than any other postmaster. He was appointed by President Andrew Jackson in 1835, and reared in 1893.