of the Appointment Office, and those of the Auditor's Office
of the Department, are more full and perfect; and from these, and from
various other sources of information, much that is deemed entirely
reliable and not wholly uninteresting has been obtained.

Erastus Granger was the first Postmaster of Buffalo--or rather of
"Buffalo Creek," the original name of the office. He was appointed on
the first establishment of the office, September 30, 1804. At that time
the nearest post-offices were at Batavia on the east, Erie on the west,
and Niagara on the north. Mr. Granger was a second cousin of Hon. Gideon
Granger, the fourth Postmaster-General of the United States, who held
that office from 1801 to 1814.

The successors of our first Postmaster, and the dates of their
respective appointments, appear in the following statement:

Julius Guiteau, May 6, 1818.
Samuel Russel, April 25, 1831.
Henry P. Russell, July 26, 1834.
Orange H. Dibble, August 28, 1834.
Philip Dorsheimer, June 8, 1838.
Charles C. Haddock, October 12, 1841.
Philip Dorsheimer, April 1, 1845.
Henry K. Smith, August 14, 1846.
Isaac R. Harrington, May 17, 1849.
James O. Putnam, September 1, 1851.
James G. Dickie, May 4, 1853.
Israel T. Hatch, November 11, 1859.
Almon M. Clapp, (the present incumbent[C]) March 27, 1861.

The Buffalo Post-office was the only post-office within the present
limits of the city until January, 1817, when a post-office was
established at Black Rock. The appointments of Postmasters at Black Rock
have been as follows:

James L. Barton, January 29, 1817.
Elisha H. Burnham, July 11, 1828.
Morgan G. Lewis, June 29, 1841.
George Johnson, July 7, 1853.
Daniel Hibbard, (the present incumbent) June 1, 1861.

In July, 1854, the Post-office of Black Rock Dam, now called North
Buffalo, was established. The name of the office was changed to North
Buffalo, February 10, 1857. The appointments to that office have been as
follows:

Henry A. Bennet