NJPH - New Jersey Postal History Society

NJPH 

The Journal of the 

NEW JERSEY POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETY 

ISSN: 1078-1625 

Vol. 39 No. 4 Whole Number 184 November 2011 

New Jersey Civil War Covers: Wyman the Wizard! 

The 2 nd in our commemoration of the Civil War for its 150 th Anniversary features covers addressed 

to and from the amazing Wyman the Wizard. For more information see page 184. 

~ CONTENTS ~ 

President’s Message ................................................................................ Robert G. Rose.......182 

Clarksburg Rimless Postmark .................................................................. Robert G. Rose.......183 

New Jersey Civil War Covers: The Wyman Correspondence ................. Richard Micchelli...184 

Roadstown Manuscript Marking.............................................................. Gene Fricks ............197 

Smithville ~ Hezekiah B. Smith’s Industrial Village............................... Doug D’Avino........198 

Development of the Mail in Morris County: Part V ................................ Donald Chafetz ......211 

Some New Jersey Machine Cancels......................................................... Gene Fricks ............226 

The New Jersey Philatelist, 1892 ............................................................. Jean Walton............229 

Hometown Post Offices: Amatol, NJ....................................................... Doug D’Avino........234 

Member News .......................................................................................... ................................236 

Member Ads............................................................................................. ................................237 

Literature Available ................................................................................ ................................239

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DUES TIME AGAIN! 

Enclosed with this issue is a form for dues payment for 2012. We encourage you to mail this 

right away, so it is not forgotten. Dues are still $15 a year. Again this year you have the option of paying 

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 

The leaves are finally off of the trees after an autumn’s worth of weather that most of us 

would like to forget and hope to never see happen again. We were without power for six days 

and are still paying for a variety of home repairs as well as the removal of two large downed 

trees from the pre-Halloween storm. 

This issue of NJPH includes several articles by a number of our “regulars.” Doug 

D’Avino continues his survey of New Jersey post offices with an illustrated history of the 

Smithville office. Don Chafetz presents us with a look at Part V of his award winning collection 

of Morris County stampless covers. Richard Micchelli provides details on the Wyman Civil War 

patriotic covers, and Gene Fricks contributes a couple of short articles on various machine 

cancels and a Roadstown manuscript postmark. I write on the discovery of a rimless Clarksburg 

postmark used during the stampless period. The Hometown post office this issue is Amatol, NJ – 

thanks to Doug D’Avino. I again thank Jean Walton for all of her work in collecting and editing 

this Journal. Kudos to you Jean! 

Along with the Journal, I have enclosed a dues notice for 2012 with a form for you to fillin 

for two free ads in NJPH. To continue to publish a quality, award winning journal in the face 

of ever increasing printing costs and postal rate increases, the Society needs your financial 

support. Membership dues of $15 raises about $1,500, but our annual cost for printing and 

mailing NJPH four times a year costs in excess of $2,400. Accordingly, I again urge you to 

make a tax deductible contribution to your Society. 

Finally, with the Holiday Season quickly approaching, I wish you and yours the very best! 

ROBERT G. ROSE 

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Robert G. Rose ~ CLARKSBURG RIMLESS POSTMARK 

CLARKSBURG RIMLESS POSTMARK—THE DISCOVERY COPY 

By Robert G. Rose 

Clarksburg, a small crossroads village located in Millstone Township, Monmouth 

County, saw it first post office established on July 3, 1837. No manuscript postmarks have been 

reported from this post office during the stampless period ending in 1855. The Coles Book, 1 

records less than five reported examples of the circle handstamp shown below in Figure 1. 

Fig. 1 

Fig. 2: Clarksburg rimless postmark on undated cover. 

Rimless postmarks are scarce — only six New Jersey towns with such markings are 

recorded the Coles Book. 2 The discovery copy of Clarksburg’s rimless postmark in black is 

illustrated in Figure 2, with a “Sept. 1” manuscript date and matching “Paid 3” on a buff 

envelope without enclosure, to Richford in Tioga County, in New York State’s Southern Tier. 

The three cent rate was introduced by the Act of March 3, 1851 for single pre-paid letters not 

exceeding 3,000 miles and not weighing more than ½ ounce. After April 1, 1855, all domestic 

mail was required to be prepaid with a postage stamp, bringing an end to the stampless period. 

Accordingly, this rimless marking was used sometime between September 1, 1851 and 

September 1, 1854. 

ENDNOTES: 

1 William C. Coles, Jr., The Postal Markings of New Jersey Stampless Covers, (The Collectors Club of Chicago, 

1983) p. 159, with Coles Type C19. 

2 Ibid, pp. 59-63. 

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CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVERS: THE WYMAN CORRESPONDENCE ~ Richard Micchelli 

CIVIL WAR PATRIOTICS: THE WYMAN CORRESPONDENCE 

By Richard Micchelli 

John Wyman, Jr., a.k.a. 

Wyman the Wizard. 1 

who used these envelopes. 

If you were to conduct a detailed review of the 190 Civil War 

patriotic covers illustrated in NJPH whole nos. issues 100 and 117, or the 

online exhibit of covers shown at NOJEX, you can begin to see the 

emergence of some interesting patterns among the covers. An obvious 

pattern is that there are several different correspondences represented in 

the illustrated covers. After years of viewing them in the light of other 

historical facts, interesting accounts of the people represented in the addresses 

will provide possibilities of several stories behind the covers, not including a 

statistical review of the postmarked towns, the various stationery printers, 

destinations, or more importantly the sentiment of the soldiers and civilians 

One particular correspondence can easily pique the viewer’s interest and raised the 

question, for me repeatedly, who was “Wyman the Wizard?” Now this is certainly an unusual 

addressée, i.e., a Wizard. Looking further there were others addressed to Jane Wyman, who 

was eventually identified to be Mrs. Wizard, aka Mrs. Jane Wyman. A closer review of them 

begins to indicate a suspicion that another individual was part of the circle of friends or 

perhaps relatives of Wyman. Not all of the correspondence was just between husband and 

wife, but included “fan” mail to John at various cities he traveled to perform. 

Fig. 1: A Civil War Patriotic cover, addressed to Wyman the Wizard, sent from Newton, NJ on 

Aug. 5, 1861, to Wyman in Morristown. A devil sits on a cask of Confederate whiskey marked 

with a skull and crossbones. 

Years after starting this collection an advertising cover came to market from a philatelic 

auction house that became a must-have for the collection and was subsequently purchased. It 

was a very elaborate and finely detailed illustrated advertisement for “Wyman the Wizard” with 


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Richard Micchelli ~ CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVERS: THE WYMAN CORRESPONDENCE 

a picture of the wizard which was eventually proven to be an accurate likeness from other 

sources. It contained a circular announcing his appearance and performance at a forthcoming 

event in Connecticut and two complimentary 25c tickets for the organizer (see Figure 2). He 

was a ventriloquist and a magician. 

Fig. 2: A cover from Wyman addressed to the principal of a local school, enclosing a broadside 

announcing a ventriloquist performance at Mechanics Hall, October 24, 1856 – a stampless 

cover marked Paid, and a very early illustrated advertising cover. 

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John was a member of The Society of American Magicians, the foremost society of 

magicians, at the time and still in existence today. He was one of four magicians among the top 

15 wealthiest showmen listed over 150 years ago and just third from his friend P.T. Barnum, the 

richest showman in the world. Not bad considering they charged about 25 cents admission to 

their shows. Because of his notoriety, there is a good amount written about him. Since this is an 

information article principally about Civil War patriotics used in New Jersey, the following is a 

brief biographical sketch of the Wizard. 

He was born John Wyman, Jr. in Albany, NY, Jan. 19, 1816 of a merchant father who 

planned a business career for him. After his graduation from Albany Academy he got a job 

behind the counter in a Baltimore auction house. Early in life he had shown a talent for mimicry 

and entertaining so soon he left the auction business and opened at the Baltimore Museum as a 

ventriloquist. 

With his twin talents, ventriloquism and magic, plus a knack for getting his name in print, 

he was an early success. Before long he had performed for President Van Buren. Later his 

inexhaustible bottle trick was a source of great delight for Fillmore and his cabinet. Lincoln had 

Wyman entertain his guests at the White House on four occasions. For almost 45 years Wyman 

the Wizard performed tricks and ventriloquism and his performances featured prizes to those 

who visited his show. Such attractive items as $40 gold watches, family Bibles, table sets, canes, 

silverware and pen-knives were given to lucky ticket holders, some ads promising a present for 

everybody! 

Others not so reputable were also in the gift show field. Many of his competitors offered 

similar showers of prizes. But some of the gift show operators were swindlers pure and simple. 

They advertised costly gifts, sold tickets at a reasonable price, then skipped out the back door. 

Their only trick was the unexplained, but mob-provoking, disappearance of the advertised 

performer. Wyman, however, was “completely reliable, an honest professor of legitimate 

deception, a talented entertainer. If he advertised a $40 watch as a gift, you can be assured the 

watch would not only be given away but be worth $40.00.” 2 

He was an early pioneering ventriloquist who achieved considerable reputation in the 

United States. He wrote a book on magic (1860) and another on ventriloquism (1861), both of 

which are still referenced today. He was an early pioneer of the ventriloquist’s (wooden) doll, 

the great grandfather of Charlie McCarthy. John flourished from the 1840s through the 1860s. 

As best that be could be determined from his correspondence, his travels were to the more 

populated northeastern states especially PA, NJ, and NY. He lived with his wife in Mount Holly, 

NJ, and later in Burlington. Wyman died in Burlington, N.J. on July 31, 1881. He was 65. 

Nothing is yet known of the details of the entire correspondence, i.e. its provenance, its 

scope or size or when it was uncovered. 

Fortunately John used the patriotic covers, as did his correspondents, in a selective 

manner. That is, all the used covers were the best designs of the era, specifically Magnus, Berlin 

& Jones, and McGee. We thank him for his unexpected legacy to philatelists. 


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As a testimony to the amount of travelling he did, a display of these covers addressed to 

Wyman shows many of the cities in which he travelled, and only one in this collection is 

addressed to his home, when he lived in Philadelphia. Despite Wyman’s wide reputation, he 

seemed to prefer to perform in the smaller American cities, and their smaller halls and school 

sites, instead of the larger venues. 3 

Fig. 3: A cover dated Aug. 16, and sent from Hackettstown, NJ to Wyman the Wizard in Dover, 

NJ. Printed by D. Murphy’s Son on Fulton and Pearl Streets in New York City. It shows 

caricatures of CSA President Jefferson Davis and General Beauregard. 

Fig. 4: A cover sent from Paterson, NJ to Wyman The Ventriloquist in Newark, picturing 

Confederate General Beauregard shown as a bear. 

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Fig, 5: An August 20, 1862 cover sent to Wyman the Ventriloquist at Millburn, NJ 

(Millburn August 22 receiver), redirected to Hackettstown, with a Due 3 marking. The 

illustration is a Jefferson Davis flag, with “J.D. His Marque” and skull and 

crossbones. 

Fig. 6: Another cover, dated July 12, 1862 illustrating Jefferson Davis as a jackass, and text written 

both above and below, from Rahway, NJ to York, PA. The upper text reads, “Secession must have 

‘turned their heads’/When they let a J*** D**** caper o’er them,” and below “But lo! No more the 

earth he treads,/A sad ‘reverse’ is now before them!” Printed by the New York Envelope Depot, 144 

Broadway, copyrighted by Brown & Ryan, New York. 


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Fig. 7: A cover sent from Rahway June 25 to Wyman the Wizard in Bordentown, showing Lt.-General 

Winfield Scott represented as the larger dog, trying to tempt Jeff Davis with the “bone” of Washington 

– with “A Polite Invitation.” Printed by D. Murphy’s Son, 65 Fulton and 372 Pearl Sts., N.Y. 

Fig.8: A cover commemorating the new Statehood of Oregon (1859) with 

an early State seal. Although far from the battlefields, six companies of 

troops for the Union were raised in Oregon during the Civil War. Printed 

by C.A. Miller, 22 Ann St., NY, and sent from Rahway, NJ. 

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A number of the letters to Jane E. Wyman (née Jane. E. Prout), are addressed to her in 

Fall River, Massachusetts, which is where her original home was. It appears that these letters 

may have been written close together, perhaps to Mrs. Wyman on a visit home. John Wyman 

would be buried in Fall River in 1881, 4 as was his wife many years later in 1898. 

Fig. 9: A July 28 Plainfield, NJ cover with Union and Liberty symbols, and printed by Magee, 316 

Chestnut St. In Philadelphia. ‘Addressed to Fall River, MA. 

Fig. 10: A cover addressed to Wyman’s wife Jane, from Newark to Fall River, MA, dated July 31. 

The year date on these covers is difficult to read. This one shows a portrait of Washington. 


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Fig. 11: A Newark, NJ cover dated Aug. 1, 1862 showing “The Shield of Liberty,” and 

addressed to his wife Jane, in care of Capt. Brown in Fall River, MA. 

Fig. 12: An August 4, 1862 cover from Newark to Jane in Fall River, showing “The Gallant 69 th of 

New York ready to receive their Secessionist friends from the South. Arlington Heights, June 

1861.” The 69 th was stationed at a fort renamed for their colonel - “Fort Corcoran,” at Arlington 

Heights, Virginia. A D. Murphy’s Son, Fulton & Pearl Sts., NY cover. 

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On his retirement, John and his wife resided in Philadelphia, at 612 North Eleventh 

Street. 5 

Fig. 13: A Trenton double ring June 24, 1864(?) cancel on a cover addressed to Wyman the Ventriloquist, at 612 

North 11 th St., Philadelphia. The cover is printed by W.R. Wills in Norristown, PA, and shows a member of the 

51 st Regiment. 

Fig. 14: Another cover addressed to Mrs. Wyman. This one, cancelled Aug. 21 in Millburn, NJ, includes a 

standing figure and eagle and the slogan “Federal Laws Must be Enforced.” 


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Fig. 15: These two covers show different representations of a popular patriotic poem at the time, 

“The Girl I Left Behind Me.” This one is cancelled at Belvidere, NJ on August 21. 

Fig. 16: This cover, sent from Hackettstown, NJ on August 23, includes a section of the verse. 

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Subsequently, the Wymans moved to Burlington, New Jersey, 6 where they had a home of 

some size. The following covers are all addressed to the corner of Union and St. Mary Streets in 

Burlington. 

Fig. 17: A Charles Magnus design showing Fort Monroe and General Mansfield, addressed to 

Jane Wyman at the corner of Union and St. Mary Streets, in Burlington, NJ. Sent from Millstone. 

Fig. 18: Another cover designed by Charles Magnus, 12 Frankfort St., NY, showing a portrait of 

General L. Blenker. Blenker organized the 8 th NY Infantry Regiment, and commanded them for 

the Army of the Potomac He was promoted to General for his service at Bull Run in 1861. . 

Again, addressed to Jane in Burlington, and sent from Plainfield, NJ on August 10. 


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Fig. 19: A third and very attractive Charles Magnus cover, handcolored, and showing the first 

eight Presidents of the United States. Sent from Somerville on August 17, to Jane at the 

Burlington address. 

Wyman was certainly an interesting person, who happened to live in interesting times. It 

is our good luck that he lived and travelled so much in New Jersey during his career, and sent so 

many nice covers to his wife during this period. With the addition of covers he received from 

others, it is a serendipitous addition to the collecting of Civil War patriotic covers. 

[We will attempt to show other New Jersey Civil War patriotics to commemorate the 150 th 

anniversary of the Civil War. If you are interested in seeing Richard’s full exhibit, it is currently 

on view at McCulloch Hall in Morristown, for the 150 th anniversary of the Civil War. It can also 

be viewed online in our Free Online Library at www.NJPostalHistory.org, or by going directly to 

http://www.njpostalhistory.org/media/pdf/NJCWPats.pdf .] 

ENDNOTES: 

1 From Vol. 42, No. 4 of M.U.M. (MAGIC-UNITY-MIGHT), Volume 42, Number 4, September, 1952, pps 97 - 99): 

Published monthly by the Society of American Magicians. Christopher Milbourne, ed., “45 Years a Wizard,” on 

the Magical Past-Times website at http://www.miraclefactory.net/mpt/view.php?id=81&type=articles 

2 Ibid. 

3 Evans, Henry Ridgely, The Old and The New Magic, Chicago, The Open Court Publishing Company, 1906, 

accessed on GoogleBooks at http://books.google.com/books?id=l_s- 

AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+old+and+the+new+magic&hl=en&ei=DS3UToCdBMrk0QHzysTy 

AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20old%20and% 

20the%20new%20magic&f=false Nov. 29, 2011. 

4 Milbourne, Christopher, op cit. 

5 Ibid. 

6 Evans, op cit. 

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ROADSTOWN MANUSCRIPT MARKING ~ Gene Fricks 

ROADSTOWN MANUSCRIPT MARKING 

By Gene Fricks 

Kay & Smith record the Roadstown, Cumberland County post office (zip 08351) in 

operation from September 7, 1802 until August 18, 1972. 1 This is a significant timespan. I 

cannot recall seeing a Roadstown marking up until I stumbled across the illustrated item this 

summer, which may more reflect the fact that Cumberland County post offices receive little 

attention than for any other reason. Mail service to the area is currently provided from 

Bridgeton. 

Fig. 1: Roadstown manuscript marking dated Aug. 14, 1865, addressed to 

Haddonfield, NJ. 

The letter enclosed is datelined August 12, 1865. Most of the letter deals with family 

pleasantries but starts off: 

“My dear Joseph, 

“I reached Roadstown safely, about 8 Oclock. As it did not rain I thought I 

would not stay in Bridgeton, so I took the Stage, and had a slow and unpleasant ride. 

The Stage was full, and for once, I was glad you was not with me, but sorry when I 

reached home for they all seemed disappointed that you was not with me. I found them 

all well….” 

The sender was (Mrs.) Mary Moore of Haddonfield, a relative of the recipient Joseph 

Tatem. 

ENDNOTES 

1 John L.Kay and Chester M. Smith Jr., New Jersey Postal History. The Post Offices and First Postmasters 1776- 

1976. (Quarterman Publications: Lawrence MA, 1977): 56. 


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Doug D’Avino ~ HEZEKIAH B. SMITH’S INDUSTRIAL VILLAGE 

SMITHVILLE - HEZEKIAH B. SMITH’S INDUSTRIAL VILLAGE 

By Doug D’Avino 

Smithville, located in Burlington County, N.J., is home to the Smithville County Park, 

which includes Smithville Lake and the historic Smithville Mansion. This section of Eastampton 

Township (near the county seat of Mount Holly, as well as the author's residence) is named after 

Hezekiah Bradley (H.B.) Smith (1816 - 1887), and served as a thriving industrial center during 

the second half of the 19th century and into the next. This Smithville is not the "Towne of 

Historic Smithville," located in Atlantic County near Absecon, which is better known to most 

current day New Jersey residents. 

Born in Vermont, Smith trained as a cabinet maker. He subsequently moved to New 

Hampshire, then Massachusetts, before settling in New Jersey in the last year of the Civil War. 

The H. B. Smith Machine Company was founded in 1865 when Smith purchased the practically 

abandoned village of Shreveville (Westampton Township, at that time) for $23,000 and renamed 

the village Smithville. The company, incorporated in 1877, became famous for its many 

products, especially woodworking machinery. However, it is most renowned for manufacturing 

the Star high-wheeled bicycle, and for the opening of a 1.8 mile bicycle railroad that allowed 

workers to pedal to the plant each day from their homes in Mount Holly. Its founder held over 

forty patents, including such diverse ones as a scroll saw and a steam-powered tricycle. 

After purchasing the village, Smith spent several years upgrading Smithville’s machine 

shops and foundry and rebuilding the village housing. He created a public park at the center of 

the village, constructed a dormitory (Mechanics Hall) for unmarried factory mechanics, built an 

opera house for cultural and artistic events and constructed a schoolhouse for village children. In 

all, Smithville was redesigned to provide accommodations for 250 people. 

The Smithville post office was established in 1866, located in the Company offices, 

shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2. In an application for the post office, Robert S. Kille stated the 

village population as “... 200, expect soon to be double that.” The first Postmaster, John Segine, 

held the job for just two weeks, as listed in Table 1. He was succeeded by Kille, and then by 

James Logan. Finally, in 1868, Smith assumed the position of Postmaster, a post he held for 

over 10 years. Since he was President of a large manufacturing company, in all probability he 

was Postmaster in title only, with the workers in the Company Store serving customers. The 

largest customer using the post office would have been the H. B. Smith Machine Company! 

Smith’s business success sent him to the U.S. House of Representatives, as a Democrat, 

in 1878. But his victory came at a cost. Little did the fair citizens of the Garden State know that 

their newest Congressman was a bigamist, a revelation that exploded into the national newspaper 

headlines (led by The New York Times) several weeks after he was elected. 

Having never legally divorced his first wife, who he married in 1846 and with whom he 

had four children, he took up with a much younger mill girl, Agnes Matilda Gilkerson. With 

Smith’s financial support, Agnes went on to graduate from Penn Medical University in 

Philadelphia in 1861, receiving her Doctor of Medicine degree with a major in Chemistry. He 

married Agnes in 1865 when she was 27 and he 49, after some ten years of “courtship.” Agnes 

developed and sold a number of patent medicines, which netted her a lucrative income, as well as 

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HEZEKIAH B. SMITH’S INDUSTRIAL VILLAGE ~ Doug D’Avino 

serving as editor of the New Jersey Mechanic, a weekly newspaper published by Smith. She 

died, childless, in 1881. 

William S. Kelley became the Postmaster in 1879. He was an inventor who held at least 

nine patents and Vice President of H. B. Smith Machine Co., later to become company President 

after Smith’s death. Like Smith, Kelley’s corporate duties would have made him Postmaster in 

name only. It isn’t until 1908 that additional post office staff was added: Harvey E. Lippincott, 

Deputy Postmaster, and Charles V. Bohannan, clerk. 

Fig. 1: The H. B. Smith Machine Company, circa 1900, cropped from a real photo postcard, mailed from the 

Smithville post office in 1912 (postmark inset). The red arrow points to a covered stairway up to the second-floor 

company office; in 1930, the post office was re-located directly below the office (see Figure 2), with an entrance 

on the side of the building. Elton Smith made no changes to the complex, so the factory looks exactly as it did 

when H. B. Smith was running the company in the 1880s. 


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Image courtesy of the Smithville Conservancy 

Fig. 2. The Smithville post office, directly below the H. B. Smith Machine Company office (stairs at the left). 

Note the mailbox between the windows to the right of the post office door. 

Table 1. Smithville Postmasters - Burlington County 

Name Position Date Appointed 

John Segine First Postmaster December 7, 1866 

Robert S. Kille Postmaster December 21, 1866 

Post Office Discontinued, May 1, 1867 

James Logan Postmaster June 17, 1867 

Hezekiah B. Smith Postmaster October 14, 1868 

William S. Kelley Postmaster January 14, 1879 

Post Office Discontinued (Rescinded), September 29, 1882 

William S. Kelley Postmaster September 30, 1882 

Eayre O. Lippincott Appointed* July 8, 1895 

William S. Kelley Postmaster February 13, 1896 

Charles G. Hatcher Postmaster October 25, 1916 

Robert Clyde Acting Postmaster February 20, 1922 

Edith Vaughn Postmaster April 7, 1922 

Alfred Johansen Postmaster January 9, 1923 

Edith Vaughn Acting Postmaster January 23, 1930 

Edith Vaughn Postmaster July 22, 1930 

Post Office Discontinued, Service to Mount Holly, June 5, 1964 

* Appointment rescinded January 9, 1896; Kelley reassumed the position. 

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Smith (Figure 3) was subsequently elected to the 

New Jersey Senate in 1882 and, in spite of the scandal, he 

remained a major political figure statewide until his death 

in 1887 at the age of 71. 

An interesting side note is that a decade-long 

dispute developed over control of Smith’s will, as well as 

his remains. Perhaps as a result, he was interred in an iron 

coffin, encased in concrete, in a Mount Holly, N.J. 

cemetery. He remains there today, buried next to Agnes, 

despite attempts by his family to exhume the body and 

bury him in Vermont. 

Smith’s oldest son, Elton, finally gained control of 

operations of the factory (shown in Figure 1) in 1897, 

which continued in business until the mid-1960’s, nearly a 

century after its founding. Figure 4 shows an H. B. Smith 

Machine Company business reply card. 


Fig. 3: H. B. Smith in 1886 at age 70. 

Eayre Oliphant Lippincott of Pemberton, NJ, had been manager of Smith’s boarding 

house since 1885, as well as a political ally and member of the Company’s Board. On July 3, 

1895, the New Jersey Mirror announced that “Eayre Lippincott had his finger badly mashed in 

the hay rake ... while at his farm.” Three weeks later, the same newspaper announced that 

“Eayre Lippincott has been appointed Postmaster in William S. Kelley’s place.” Perhaps, 

following his accident, he needed a new job. In any event, without further announcement, the 

appointment was rescinded the following year and Kelley reclaimed the post. Kelley would 

remain the Smithville postmaster for 37 years. 

Two other individuals, Charles G. Hatcher and Robert Clyde, served as Postmaster from 

Kelley’s death in 1916 until 1922. Hatcher occupied the Postmaster’s house, shown in Figure 5. 

Clyde served as acting postmaster for only six weeks and was never confirmed in the job. Edith 

Vaughn then served as postmaster from April 7 through July 1, 1922. 

In 1922, the U.S. Post Office Department announced that they would fingerprint and 

photograph over 320,000 workers, from the “office of the Postmaster General himself down to 

the humblest weekend assistant ...” Edith Vaughn was a small woman, and they couldn’t easily 

take her fingerprints. It’s likely that handling the rough canvas mail bags contributed to the 

difficulty fingerprinting her. 

In January, 1923, Alfred Johansen, who managed the Company Store, was appointed 

postmaster. The post office was relocated into the H. B. Smith Machine Company Store, shown 

in Figure 6 and Figure 7, on River Street when Johansen became postmaster. Figure 8 shows a 

Company cover postmarked in 1924. Sometime during 1929 or 1930, Johansen was suspected of 

embezzling funds and was fired following an investigation by Federal officials. When the 

Federal investigators asked if anyone was available to replace Johansen as postmaster, Vaughn’s 

name came up based on her earlier service. 


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Fig. 4: An H. B. Smith Machine Company business reply postcard, postmarked in Bethel, DE, dated 

March 30, 1912. Bethel was a major shipbuilding port at that time, and names of five individuals 

are hand-written on the back of the card, with P.M. typed in the lower corner. The men may have 

had an appointment to discuss the purchase of equipment and this postcard was a confirmation of 

that appointment. 


Fig. 5: The Postmaster’s house on Maple Avenue was occupied by Charles G. Hatcher and his 

family from about 1910 through his term as postmaster in 1922. Edith Vaughn and her husband 

lived in the house from about 1930 through the early 1970s. The house was recently moved from its 

original location and is being renovated, with completion scheduled in the near future. It will serve 

as the Smithville Visitors Center. 

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When Vaughn was appointed acting postmaster on January 23, 1930, after Johansen was 

removed, she initially operated the post office from the Company Store. Oddly, each evening 

she would take all the security materials home, including stamps, money and postal money order 

slips. 

On January 31, 1930, the Mount Holly Herald ran a front page story about the Smithville 

post office: 

Changes Made At Smithville Post Office 

The post-office at Smithville which has been located in the store operated by Alfred 

Johansen, has been moved to the office of the H. B. Smith Machine Company, where it 

was situated prior to Mr. Johansen’s appointment as postmaster. 

Mr. Johansen has been succeeded in the office by Mrs. Joseph Vaughn, who is 

acting Postmistress. Mrs. Vaughn took the Civil Service examination some years back, 

and was the runner up to Mr. Johansen when he was appointed postmaster. 

It should be noted for the record that Vaughn detested the term “postmistress.” She was 

the “postmaster” – the official Post Office Department terminology, whether male or female – 

with a Commission to prove it! 


Fig. 6: The Company Store, location of the Smithville post office while Alfred Johansen was postmaster, is the 

white wooden structure in the middle of the photo, to the left of the four-story Mechanics Hall. Mechanics Hall 

offered room and board, as well as a reading room, meeting rooms and an opera house, featuring the H. B. 

Smith Military Band. 


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Image courtesy of Edith Vaughn’s family 

Fig. 7: Postmaster Alfred Johansen and his daughter on the porch of 

the Company Store, which housed the Smithville post office while he 

was postmaster. The store burned to the ground shortly after 

Johansen was relieved of his post in 1930. 

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Fig. 8: An H. B. Smith Machine Company cover dated February 15, 1924, with a Smithville duplex 

postmark canceling a 2¢ Harding Memorial stamp. The red ‘ADDRESS CHANGED OR 

COMPLETED BY N.S.M.D. No. 8’ auxiliary marking was added in Chicago when someone 

realized that South Braintree was in Massachusetts, not Michigan. The ‘N.S.M.D. No. 8’ marking 

indicates that the change was made by the Nixie Section of the Mailing Division, which handles 

undeliverable mail, with No. 8 identifying the clerk number (or tour number). 

Then, on February 14, 1930, the Mount Holly Herald ran a related front page story: 

Smithville Store Destroyed By Fire 

A county landmark, the general store at Smithville, owned by the Estate of H. B. 

Smith and operated the past few years by Alfred H. Johansen, of Mount Holly, was 

practically destroyed by a fire of unknown origin late on Monday [Author’s note: 

February 10] night, the blaze being discovered, by Elmer E. Hartman, district clerk of 

the Eastampton Township Board of Education, about 10.15 o’clock. 

Mount Holly firemen were called and the Relief and America companies answered, 

but by the time: they arrived, the building which was of brick and frame construction, 

and its contents were doomed. 

Water was plentiful, the store being located along the creek, and the flames were 

quickly subdued, but the building and stock represent practicall [sic] a total loss, which 

is estimated at about $5,000, partially covered by insurance. 

Left unsaid was that it was suspected that the fire was started by Johansen to cover up 

any evidence of his crime(s). There appear to be no further reports by the newspaper on the 

subject, and it seems that Johansen was never charged with a crime. It seems Vaughn had good 

reason to remove secure post office materials every evening. 


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With the Company Store burned out, the post office was moved into the Vaughn’s house 

on Forest Avenue. The house was renovated to provide space for the post office by Vaughn and 

her husband, Joseph, a mechanic and H. B. Smith Machine Company salesman. 


Fig 9: Postmaster Edith Vaughn, and her grandson’s dog, Lucky, in front of the Smithville post office, directly 

below the company office. She is wearing a Mr. Zip button on her lapel as part of the Post Office Department’s 

campaign to promote the ZIP Code Program, which began July 1, 1963. 

A short time later, the post office was moved across the bridge back to the corner of the 

Smith Company Office Building (the exterior is shown in Figure 2 and Figure 9; the interior in 

Figure 10), adjacent to the entry gate to the factory complex, where it remained until service was 

discontinued in 1964. Vaughn, confirmed as Postmaster in July 1930, remained in that post until 

her mandatory retirement in October, 1963, at the age of 70. Her service recognition certificate 

is shown in Figure 11. 

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Some time later in 1930, the new postmaster’s family – husband Joseph, daughters Edith, 

Mary and Eleanor, and son Joseph, Jr. – moved into the Postmaster’s house on Maple Avenue, 

previously occupied by former Postmaster Charles G. Hatcher. While the house on Forest 

Avenue was larger, the Postmaster’s house had indoor plumbing! 


Fig. 10: Postmaster Edith Vaughn at the window inside the Smithville post office. 

The Postal Bulletin in June, 1963, said of the Mr. Zip button “Window clerks shall 

be responsible for wearing this button at all times when on duty.” Service to the 

Smithville post office was discontinued in June, 1964, shortly after Vaughn’s 

October, 1963, retirement; postal duties were handled by a clerk until the closure. 


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Fig. 11: Postmaster Edith Vaughn’s 1963 U.S. Post Office Department 

Honorary Recognition Certificate for almost 34 years of service as 

Smithville’s postmaster, signed by Postmaster General John A. Gronouski. 

Jeanne Vaughn, Edith’s daughter-in-law, served as a postal clerk (part-time), typically 

working when Edith needed a vacation day, sick day, etc. One of the tasks the two women shared 

was the daily mail exchange with the Railroad Post Office (RPO) car, known as “mail on-the-fly.” 

Outbound mail had to be positioned early each morning (before 7 a.m.) on the mail crane 

for pick-up by the passing RPO train from Philadelphia. A steep ladder had to be climbed to 

reach the platform, then the heavy mailbag hung from the crane. Most of Smithville’s outbound 

mail was generated by the H. B. Smith Machine Company, including business correspondence 

and bills, catalogs and (heavy) machine replacement parts. Inbound mail arrived each afternoon 

when the train stopped at the Smithville railroad station (shown in Figure 12), about a hundred 

yards up the road from the village, on Railroad Avenue. 

Service to the Smithville post office was discontinued in June, 1964. 

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Fig. 12: The Smithville railroad station, constructed in 1884 replacing an earlier station, on Railroad Avenue. 

The early morning mail exchange with the RPO train was known as “mail on-the-fly.” Mail also arrived each 

afternoon when the train stopped at the station. 

In August, 1967, members of the Eastampton Fire Company burned the century-old, 

crumbling building housing the Smithville post office to the ground. In an interview to the 

Burlington County Times, Vaughn explained the reason behind the closure of the post office: “You 

know where the Smithville Inn is in Atlantic County; well they wanted to erect a post office there and 

give it our name. And as the powers to be will have it, permission was granted. The state only 

allows one post office in the state to carry the name, and the Smithville Post Office is no longer 

Burlington County’s.” 

Today, although the Smithville branch of the Atlantic County’s Absecon post office is 

assigned two zip codes (08201 and 08205), both of which are also assigned to Absecon, there is 

no longer a functioning post office within the “Towne of Historic Smithville.” Figure 13 shows 

what, at one time, was the post office branch within the Atlantic County “Towne,” and the map 

in Figure 14 shows the relative location of both Smithvilles. 

Currently, the site of Hezekiah B. Smith’s Industrial Village, owned and managed by 

Burlington County, contains many of the original, restored buildings, as well gardens and nature 

trails. Tours are held of the historic areas; the Smithville Mansion provides a venue for 

weddings and other events; the park grounds host fairs and concerts throughout the year; and 

Smithville Lake offers a serene location for kayaking, canoeing and other activities. 

The author wishes to thank Edith Vaughn’s family for their memories, memorabilia and 

ephemera used in this article; specifically her daughter Mrs. Mary McCullough, daughter-in-law 

Mrs. Jeanne Vaughn, and granddaughter Mrs. Eleanor Dunker (Member of the Board of 

Trustees, Friends of the Mansion at Smithville). I also wish to thank Joe Laufer, President of the 

H. B. Smith Industrial Village Conservancy and Burlington County Historian, for providing 

images and contacts for this project. And also, my thanks to my wife, Sheila, for her invaluable 

research assistance. 


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Fig. 13: The Smithville branch of the Absecon post office, Atlantic County, became effective July 1, 1966. Like 

all the buildings in the Towne of Historic Smithville, this old store was relocated to the village from Eldora, NJ 

(DPO, 1844 - 1899). A message printed on the back of the unused postcard, hand-dated “July 1975,” reads “For 

many years it was operated by Mr. Levi Hand and contained every farmers’ household and farming need. It now 

also houses the Village Post Office.” The inset at the top of the figure shows an early 4-bar cancel of an 

Absecon, N. J., Smithville Branch, postmark dated Nov. 7, 1966, from another postcard. According to the USPS, 

“Post Office branches have managers, but not postmasters. Unfortunately we don’t have a record of branch 

managers. The postmaster of Absecon would have had administrative responsibility for the Smithville Branch.” 

The 1974 inset is from a cut corner. 

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Fig. 14: Map showing location of Smithville in Burlington County (see large arrow at upper center). 

Absecon in Atlantic County is shown with a smaller arrow at lower right; the Towne of Historic Smithville, 

not shown on this 1895 map, is approximately 5 miles north of Absecon. 

REFERENCES: 

1. William C. Bolger, “Smithville, The Result of Enterprise,” Burlington County Cultural and Heritage 

Commission, 1980. 

2. Friends of the Mansion at Smithville, http://www.smithvillemansion.org/ 

3. Smithville Conservancy, http://www.smithvilleconservancy.org/ 

4. Eastampton Township, N.J., http://www.eastampton.com/ 

5. “Official Register of the United States, 1909, Volume II, The Postal Service,” Government Printing Office, 

Washington, D.C. 

6. “Smithville Industrial Village, A Photographic History,” H. B. Smith Machine Industrial Village Conservancy. 

7. Homer V. Marion, “Guarding Your Mail with Three Million Fingerprints,” Illustrated World, Volume XXXVIII, 

No. 1, (September, 1922), pg. 45-47. 

8. Jennifer M. Lynch, “Postal History / Smithville NJ,” USPS email, October 18, 2011. 

9. United States Post Office Department, “Postal Bulletin,” June 13, 1963, pg. 4, 

http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/zipcodecampaign/p3.html . 


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Don Chafetz ~ DEVELOPMENT OF THE MAIL IN MORRIS COUNTY: Part V 

THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAIL IN MORRIS COUNTY, 1760-1850 

Part V: German Valley, Flanders, Montville, Denville, Newfoundland, Pompton 

Plains, Pleasant Grove Madison, Pine Brook, Drakestown , and Millington 

An Exhibit by Donald A. Chafetz 

This is the last in our series on Morris County postal history from 1760 to 1850, as shown in 

an exhibit by Donald Chafetz. For others in this series, please see our last four issues,November 

2010, Vol. 38, No 4, Whole number 180, Feb. 2011, Vol. 39, No. 1, Whole number 181 & May 

2011, Vol.39, No. 2, Whole number 182, and Aug. 2011, Vol. 39, No. 3, Whole number 183. This 

completes Don Chafetz’s study of Morris County stampless era post offices. 

These pages from Don’s exhibit show other post offices in Morris County, presented in the 

order of their establishment, and are presented in their original form as an exhibit. This section 

begins with German Valley [est. 1821], Flanders [est. 1822], Montville [est. 1827], Denville [est. 

1828], Newfoundland [est. 1828 - later became Passaic County], Pompton Plains [est. 1831, 

Pleasant Grove/Stephensburgh [est. 1834], Madison [est. 1834 - from Bottle Hill, [est. 1812], Pine 

Brook [est. 1836], Drakestown [est. 1837], and Millington [est. 1841]. 

Covers are arranged chronologically within each community. 

Statehood Period 

German Valley 

Established December 26 - October 28, 1824 

February 3, 1836 - October 27, 1841 

March 31, 1842 - Changed to Long Valley July 2, 1918 

Manuscript: July 8, 1845 Manuscript 1822 – 1845 

To: Flemington, NJ under 300 miles - 5 cents 

Postmark: Jan. 7, 1850 G2 1850 - 1852 red 

To: Centerburgh, OH under 300 miles - 5 cents 

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Flanders 

Established July 27, 1822 

Manuscript: October 2, 1846 Manuscript 1846 - 1857 

To: Trenton, NJ under 300 miles - 5 cents 

Manuscript: February 21, 1850 Manuscript 1846 - 1857 

To: Warren, CT under 300 miles - 5 cents 

way fee - 1 cent 

forward - 5 cents 

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Established December 12, 1827 - July 8, 1846 

April 1, 1847 - December 19, 1854 

Montville 

Manuscript: November 8, 1832 Manuscript 1832 - 1847 

To: Newark, NJ not over 30 miles - 6 cents 

Manuscript: April 19, 1847 Manuscript 1832 - 1847 

To: Jackson, LA sent by postmaster - free 

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Established March 15, 1828 - January 3, 1838 

Re-established May 28, 1846 

Denville 

Postmark: Denville, NJ D6 No Year Date 


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Newfoundland 

Established April 5, 1828 - July 25, 1885 

Morris County 

Manuscript: Newfoundland, NJ Manuscript 1843 - 1846 

To: Washington City, D.C. to Congressman - free 

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Pompton Plains 

Established April 15, 1814 - September 9, 1836 

Re-established August 29, 1849 

Dateline: July 25, 1846 Pompton Plains 

Via: Boonton, NJ Manuscript 1846 

To: Harmony, NJ under 300 miles - 5 cents 

Postmark: February 26, 1851 P42 1849 - 1851 black 

To: Harmony, NJ under 300 miles - 5 cents 

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Pompton Plains 

Postmark: November 14 P42 1849 - 1851 black 

To: Jersey City, NJ under 300 miles - 5 cents 


Pleasant Grove / Stevensburgh 

Established February 27, 1834 - July 31,1856 

Changed to Stevensburgh August 1, 1856 

Manuscript: December 19, 1843 Pleasant Grove, NJ Manuscript 1838 - 1843 

To: Flemington, NJ sent by postmaster - free 

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Bottle Hill established July 12, 1812 

Changed to Madison November 24, 1834 

Madison 

Postmark: May 15, 1841 Type M1 1841 - 1851 blue 

To: Detroit, MI over 400 miles - 25 cents 

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Postmark: August 14, 1844 M1 1840 - 1844 green 

To: August 14, 1844 Trenton, NJ 30 - 80 miles - 10 cents 

Forward to: Hamburg, NJ 80 - 150 miles - 12 ¾ cents 

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Madison 

Postmark: May 26, 1846 M1 1846 - 1851 blue 

To: New York, NY under 300 miles - 5 cents 

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Postmark: July 13 

To: 

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M1 1848 - 1850 black 

over 300 miles - 10 cents 

double weight - 10 cents 

20 cents 

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Madison 

Postmark: June 9, 1848 M1 1846 - 1851 blue 


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Postmark: April 12 M1 1846 - 1851 blue 

To: South Hadley, MAS under 300 miles - 5 cents 

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Madison 

Postmark: November 13, 1846 M1 1846 - 1851 blue 


Postmark: March 27, 1848 M1 1848 - 1850 black 


Rerouted: Freehold, NJ no charge 

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Madison 

Postmark: October 17, Newark, NJ N5 1832 - 1850 red 

To: Madison, NJ under 300 miles - 5 cents 

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Madison 

Postmark: December 18, 1849 M1 1848 - 1850 black 

To: Washington, ARK over 300 miles - 10 cents 


Established January 20, 1836 

Pine Brook 

Manuscript: August 5, 1846 Manuscript 1846 - 1847 

To: Jackson, LA over 300 miles - 10 cents 

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Dateline: 

Via: 

To: 


Drakestown 

Established January 14, 1837 - May 31, 1911 

October 1, 1831 Drakestown, NJ 

Manuscript 1837 - 1846 17 - 18460 

October 4, 1831 Hacketstown, NJ 

over 400 miles - 25 cents 

Canton, IL OH 

Dateline: February 27, 1835 Drakestown, NJ 

Via: 

February 27, 1835 Hacketstown, NJ 

Manuscript 183717 - 18460 

To: Canton, IL IOH over 400 miles - 25 cents 

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Drakestown 

Manuscript: September 8, 1838 

Manuscript 183717 - 18460 

To: Canton, IL OH over 400 miles - 25 cents 

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Manuscript: December 11, 1846 

Manuscript 183717 - 18460 

To: Canton, ILOH over 300 miles - 10 cents 

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Millington 

Changed to Morris County February 5, 1841 

Changed to Somerset County July 3, 1845 

Manuscript: March 3, 1841 Manuscript 1841 

To: Washington City, D.C. sent to congressman - free 

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NJ MACHINE CANCELS ~ Gene Fricks 

SOME INTERESTING NEW JERSEY MACHINE CANCELS 

By Gene Fricks 

Haddonfield RECEIVED Machine Cancel 

This Haddonfield machine cancel appears to be a Barr-Fyke type. I have been able to 

document use between 1903 and 1909. Before and after this period, circular handstamps appear to have 

been used. Haddonfield had a Barr-Fyke for regular canceling duty between 1908 and 1916. The 

handstamp markings are presented to bracket the potential periods of use of the machine cancels. 

Illustrations courtesy Historical Society of Haddonfield 

Fig. 1: Haddonfield Barr-Fyke RECEIVED cancel dated July 4, 1904. Sent from New York Sta. C. 

Fig. 1a: Upright view of cancel from above illustration. 


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Fig. 2: Some additional Haddonfield Barr-Fyke receivers used in April 1910 – and one circular REC’D 

handstamp from October 1910. Not all Barr-Fyke cancels have vertical bars – some have horizontal bars. 1 

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NJ MACHINE CANCELS ~ Gene Fricks 

Ocean City, NJ cancels: 


Fig. 3: A group of Ocean City cancels from 1910 – the lower one is not a machine, but a 

duplex cancel used in October 1910. Earlier in the year (April), a machine cancel was in 

use. The top cover is earlier still (190?), and is a machine receiver. 

For those interested in machine cancels, we suggest the Machine Cancel Society, at their 

web site at http://www.machinecancel.org/about.html. 

1 For further information on Barr-Fyke cancels, see http://swansongrp.com/machines.html. (Nov. 30, 2011) 


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Jean Walton ~ THE NEW JERSEY PHILATELIST, 1892 

THE NEW JERSEY PHILATELIST, 1892 

By Jean Walton 

At NOJEX a few years ago, I discovered that our NJPH was not the first philatelic 

journal to originate in Califon, New Jersey. Must be something it the water. Here is an example 

of philatelic “writing” from a hundred and twenty years ago: 

Fig. 1: The second issue of the New Jersey Philatelist, published in Califon, NJ in December 1892 – the first was 

published in November 1892. 

It is listed as the official journal of the Standard Philatelic Association. 1 Each issue 

consists of a few pages, mostly filled with advertising, mixed with a few stamp offers, and a bit 

of news. I am particularly fond of the note in Figure 2, indicating that Stamp Cranks should 

send for a copy of the Curiosity Cllector (sic) from J. D. Bartlett in South Amboy, although he 

seems to have lived in Demarest. This appears to be the same J.D. Bartlett who visited with 

editor Kitchin and said he had a good time – “ no girls you know!” and who is the subject of the 

puzzle. He appears to have been a member of the American Philatelic Association, and no doubt 

familiar with another NJ philatelist of that period, Hiram Deats of Flemington. 

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THE NEW JERSEY PHILATELIST, 1892 ~ By Jean Walton 

Fig. 2: Another page from Vol. 1, No. 2. 

The circulation of this issue is listed as 1250! I wish we had that kind of interest! In the 

editorial notes, it indicates: “After due consideration, we have concluded to offer no apology for 

this awful issue of the NEW JERSEY PHILATELIST. We promise only this: Our January issue 

will consist of 12 pages. Each page 6x9 inches in size.” One thing this issue taught me is that a 

plethora of font types does NOT make for easier reading! 

It was with some anticipation that I acquired a second issue of this journal (thanks to Bob 

Rose). I wanted to see if improvements had indeed been made. The pages were a bit larger; 

however, I learned that it is wise not to make rash promises, as Mr. Kitchin – who appears to be 

both editor and printer, says in Vol 1, No. 3, “I am sorry to have to present the readers of the 

N.J.P with an inferior paper again this month, after my promises, but the February Issue will be 8 

pages SURE! I now have Mr. S.W. Weir of this place to do my folding. As Mr. Weir is a 

hustler, you may expect the Feb. no. in two weeks.” 

If you are reading this in pdf format, I suggest that you enlarge the page, as many of the 

adlets are interesting to read. Otherwise you may have to depend on an old-fashioned 

magnifying glass. 


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Figs. 3 & 4: Additional pages from Vol. 1, No. 2 of the New Jersey Philatelist. 

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THE NEW JERSEY PHILATELIST, 1892 ~ By Jean Walton 

Fig. 5: Vol. 1, No. 3 front and back pages. 

Vol. 1, No. 3 (January 1893) shows an American flag and the pages are now larger is 

size, although there are not more of them. At the bottom on the first page is the notation: 

Entered at the Califon, N.J. post office as second class matter, Oct 15, 1892. The circulation had 

dropped to 1000. 

Fig. 6: Inscription on the 3rd issue indicating this journal was entered as 2nd class 

matter at the Califon NJ post office, Oct. 15, 1892. 

It also appears that Kitchin is having a little trouble filling the pages he does print. 

Rutgers shows a series of only four issues in total of this journal, 2 so the NJP may have 

had a very short life. But it is interesting to see that a small town such as Califon was earlier a 

“center of philately!” 


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Fig. 7. The inside pages of Vol. 1, No. 3. 

Whether or not this paper was successful, J.D Bartlett’s Curious Collector (see the 

“Stamp Cranks” ad in Figure 2) apparently was, as the text on the back of this card addressed to 

him by a Canadian seller in Owen 

Sound testifies: “Received 

numerous answers to my exchange 

in your paper – Please insert the 

following in your July number…” 

Old philatelic journals give 

us some perspective on ourselves 

and our hobby, and record for us 

some of the dealers of the past. 

Fig. 8: Addressed to J.D. Bartlett from 

Owen Sound, Ont. in 1889. 

. 

ENDNOTES: 

1 Other issues of the Califon, NJ New Jersey Philatelist are available in the Rutgers Library. Go to 

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/searchcatalogs.shtml /. Enter “Periodical title Keyword” in search type and 

“New Jersey Philatelist” in search box. (Nov. 30, 2011). 

2 Rutgers also shows another New Jersey Philatelist, published in Jersey City, and an organ of the New Jersey 

Philatelic Society, where they show a series of 36 issues from 1880-82. 

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HOMETOWN POST OFFICES: Amatol, N.J. ~ Doug D’Avino 

HOMETOWN POST OFFICES: Amatol, NJ 

By Doug D’Avino 

The village of Amatol, named after a powerful explosive [a mixture of ammonium nitrate 

and trinitrotoluene (TNT)] used in munitions, was designed and built by the Atlantic Loading 

Company. It took only four months to transform a 6,000-acre site in Mullica Township, Atlantic 

County, from a wooded wilderness into an industrial hub bomb making facility toward the end of 

World War I (WWI). The land on which Amatol was to be located was purchased on March 4th, 

1918, and by July 31st enough factory buildings, residential areas, utilities, and commercial buildings 

had been completed to start operations of the largest shell loading plant in the United States. 

On August 7, 1918 William F. Jones was appointed the first Postmaster (PM) of Amatol, 

as listed in Table 1. The Amatol Post Office (PO) is shown in Figure 1. A war tax had gone into 

effect on November 2, 1917 on first class mail, raising the rate 1¢ on both postcards (2¢) and 

letters (3¢). 

Shortly after the WWI armistice of Nov. 11, 1918, the plant's operations ceased, and the 

village was abandoned before many of the buildings could be completed. 

On January 30, 1919, Frank J. Guard was appointed the second PM. However, the U.S. 

Post Office Department records are annotated "declined" next to his name. So, it appears that 

Guard was appointed but declined to serve! Figure 2 shows rare March, 1919 Amatol 

postmarks. 

Fig. 1: Bank building and Amatol Post Office. The PO is on the right toward the rear of the 

building. The village was intended to serve a population of 25,000 upon completion. 


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Doug D’Avino ~ HOMETOWN POs: Amatol, NJ 

Images courtesy of Stephen Madara 

Fig. 2: Two rare Amatol postmarks, dated March 5, 1919, from a PO open for less than 11 months in support of 

WWI. The red tinge seen where the stamp on the left has been torn off indicates that the postcard was correctly 

stamped with a 2¢ Washington definitive. The postmark on the postcard corner on the right cancels a 3¢ purple 

Washington definitive (Scott #530), overpaying for the convenience of using a stamp on-hand. 

Table 1. Amatol Postmasters 

Name Position Date Appointed 

William F. Jones 1st Postmaster August 7, 1918 

Frank J. Guard Postmaster - declined January 30, 1919 

Benjamin B. Westcott Postmaster March 17, 1919 

Amatol PO discontinued July 5, 1919, mail to Hammonton. 

Benjamin B. Westcott was appointed the final Amatol PM on March 17, 1919. However, 

his appointment was short lived; the PO was discontinued on July 5, 1919, with all future mail 

service through the Hammonton PO. The war tax on first class mail ended just days before on 

July 1. As a result, all Amatol first class mail should reflect the additional 1¢ war tax, except for 

those postmarked in July, 1919, assuming you can find a piece with postage intact. 

In 1926, a group of investors built the million dollar Atlantic City Speedway on a portion 

of the Amatol property. In 1933 the racetrack was torn down, closing after only a few years of 

racing. Only one of the original building is still standing, the Executive Dormitory that was used 

for several years as the New Jersey State Police Barracks, Hammonton Station. 

REFERENCES: 

1. Chuck Brining, "The Lost Town of Amatol in Elwood," 

http://www.evfc160.com/main/article.php/20091126130120878 . 

2. The Journal Of The New Jersey Postal History Society, "Amatol, N.J., A Historical Bombshell," January 1990; 

http://njpostalhistory.org/media/archive/086-jan90njph.pdf &"New Jersey Discontinued Post Offices," March, 

1993, http://njpostalhistory.org/media/archive/102-mar93njph.pdf . 

3. Steve Madara, "Amatol, NJ, 1917- 1933," South Jersey Post Card Club Newsletter, October 2003, 

http://www.sjpostcard.com/ARCHIVES/2003PDF/102003/102003.pdf. 

4. Rodney A. Juell and Steven J. Rod, Encyclopedia of United States Stamps and Stamp Collecting, Kirk House 

Publishers, Minneapolis, MN, 2006. 

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MEMBER NEWS 

MEMBER NEWS: 

AN APOLOGY: 

Our sincere apologies for our late issue – 8 days without power slowed us all down a 

little, including some of our contributors as well. We’ll attempt to do better in February. Thanks 

for bearing with us! 

DUES TIME! 

A renewal form is enclosed for your dues – we hope you will all renew. Please send your 

payment of $15 to Jean Walton, Secretary, 125 Turtleback Road, Califon, NJ 07830. Donations 

are welcomed, and very important to the Society. Should you prefer to pay online, just go to our 

web site at http://www.njpostalhistory.org/, and follow the links at left to pay your dues by 

Paypal, where you can use a credit card safely, and without passing any private information. It is 

as easy and painless as paying for your purchases on Ebay, and note that you can also make a 

contribution with your dues payment if you wish. We count on your support for our survival. 

As we enter our 40 th year, we hope you will encourage others to join, as that will help ensure the 

future of our society. 

Should you wish to purchase the 2011 journals in color on a CD, this option will again be 

available to members for the price of $5.00. Just check it on the renewal form or contact us at 

Secretary@NJPostalHistory.org. As usual, an index to this year’s articles is included on the CD. 

ADDITIONS TO THE WEB SITE: 

You will now find on our web site, on the public Articles page, some new links – to 

Richard Micchelli’s exhibit of Civil War Patriotic Covers – this is our contribution to the 

commemoration of the 150 th anniversary of the Civil War, as well as a number of articles on 

these covers. We have also added links to past postmasters of counties where research has 

already been done, as an aid to both philatelists and genealogists. These include Burlington, 

Cape May, Hunterdon, Sussex, and links to a Bergen County site where similar information is 

available. Stampless period postmasters are also available. Any member interested in 

researching other counties is welcome to contact us for National Archives files for postmaster 

appointments, 1832-1971. We would be happy to give you any help we can, as we would very 

much like to expand our researched County histories. Other useful files for research, including 

full county histories of the above counties, are available to members. Contact your secretary at 

Secretary@NJPostalHistory.org for help, or for a link sheet for articles available to members only. 

MEMBER CHANGES: 

WELCOME TO NEW MEMBER: 

Claude Duperrex, Parkallee 12, Allschwil, SWITZERLAND CH-4123, cdx@gmx.ch 

Interests: NJ stampless 

ADDRESS CHANGES: 

Marge Faber: new email margefaber@comcast.net 

Len Frank, please remove email. Contact information: 200 Bristol Glen Dr., Apt. 

359B, Newton, NJ 7860-2337, 973-383-4164 


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MEMBER ADS 

MEMBER ADS ~ YOUR AD MISSING? LET US KNOW AT 

SECRETARY@NJPOSTALHISTORY.ORG OR BY MAIL TO 125 TURTLEBACK RD, CALIFON, NJ 07830 

STAMPLESS MANUSCRIPTS WANTED – LOOKING FOR LOCAL PICTURE POST 

New Jersey and Maine only – pls send copies CARDS OF OLD NJ GENERAL STORES & 

with prices to PLS send copies with prices to J. POST OFFICES, particularly with post office signs, 

Haynes, Box 358, Allendale, NJ 07401 

Contact Doug D’Avino at davinod@earthlink.net . 

Always interested in CORRESPONDENCE 

TO/FROM OCEANPORT as well as anything 

between Portugal, its colonies and N.J. Contact 

me by mail at Steve Washburne, P.O. Box 

43146 Phila. PA 19129 or email 

Stevewashburne@gmail.com 

SAMUEL SOUTHARD CORRESPOND- 

ENCE ALWAYS WANTED! Always interested. 

Please contact Jean Walton, 125 Turtleback Rd, 

Califon, NJ 07830, 908/832-9578 or send scan and 

e-mail to jwalton971@aol.com. 

GLASSBORO OR GLASSBOROUGH N.J. 

COVERS WANTED: STAMPED OR 

STAMPLESS. Send price desired and 

photocopy to Bill Whiteman, 402 North 

Harvard Road, Glassboro, NJ 08028, Call 

856/881-8858 or email BillWhit3@juno.com . 

WANTED: Calno, Brotzmanville, Millbrook, 

Pahaquarry, Dunnfield, Delaware Gap, 

Flatbrookville, Wallpack Centre, Bevans, 

Layton, Hainesville, Montague. Arne Englund, 

P.O. Box 57, Port Murray, NJ 07865-3012 or 

alenglund@aol.com. 

OUT-OF-PRINT AND RARE NEW 

JERSEY BOOKS BOUGHT AND SOLD 

since 1972. 8000 items, 1690s to 1990s. Visit 

our searchable website: www.felcone.com. 

Joseph J. Felcone, PO Box 366, Princeton, NJ 

08542 609/924-0539; felcone@felcone.com. 

WANTED: SHIP CANCELS FROM WWII, 

Morris, Sussex County covers, Patriotic covers, 

and postal cards. Clean clear strikes preferred. 

Willard Johnson, 24 Salmon Lane, Ledgewood, 

NJ 07852, or 973/584-0359. 

WANTED: STAMPLESS THROUGH 

PRESIDENTS. For the following New Jersey towns: 

Allendale, Hohokus, Manasquan, Point Pleasant, Point 

Pleasant Beach, Ridgewood and Wyckoff. PLS send 

copies with prices to J. Haynes, Box 358, Allendale, 

NJ 07401. 

. 

WANTED: COVERS to and from CALD-WELL, 

N.J., Also CALDWELL POST CARDS & 

NEWTON POST CARDS BY RYERSON. Contact 

Les Byrnes, P.O. Box 765, Kinderhook, N.Y. 12106 or 

call 518/758-7581. 

WANTED: JERSEY CITY POSTAL HIS-TORY, 

advertising covers, post cards of Jersey City, street 

scenes and unusual usages or cancellations prior to 

1940. Contact John A. Trosky, 2 St. Clair Ave., 

Rutherford. NJ 07070-1136/973-977-4639/email 

JTJersey@verizon.net. 

WANTED: Port Murray, Anderson, Changewater, 

Port Colden, Karrsville, Rockport, Beatyestown, 

Pleasant Grove, Stephensburg, Anthony, Woodglen. 

Arne Englund, P.O. Box 57, Port Murray, NJ 07865- 

3012 or alenglund@aol.com . 

. 

NOW AVAILABLE: Annotated Cumulative 

Subject Index to the Chronicle of the U.S. 

Classical Postal Issues for Issue Numbers 1- 

200, 591 pages with searchable CD-ROM. $75.00 + 

$10.00 shipping. Order from Joseph J. Geraci, Box 

4129, Merrifield, VA 22116 or call 703-280-5928. 

HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ-DPO: covers 

wanted including stampless. Please send copies and 

prices to G. Soldati, 710 Graisbury Ave, 

Haddonfield, NJ 08033 or by e-mail at 

gdsoldati@comcast.net. 

WANTED FOR EXHIBIT: BETTER 

COVERS FROM NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ, 

COLONIAL PERIOD TO 1900. Contact 

Nathan Zankel, P.O. Box 7449, North 

Brunswick, NJ 08902 or call 732/572-0377. 

WANTED: Clear handstamps on New Jersey 

stampless covers for exhibition collection. Send 

copies and prices to Robert G. Rose, One Jefferson 

Road, Parsippany, NJ 07054 or e-mail 

rrose@daypitney.com. 

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MEMBER ADS 

MEMBER ADS 

WANTED: WASHINGTON FRANKLIN with 

SIDEROGRAPHER OR PLATE FINISHER 

INITIALS, on or off cover, used or unused. 

Contact Doug D’Avino at davinod@earthlink.net . 

WANTED: Hunterdon County NJ, Bucks County 

PA postal history, covers, postcards, pictures, 

Americana ephemera collateral paper items, all eras,. 

Contact Jim Walker, 121 Wertsville Road, Ringoes, 

NJ 08551-1108, 908/806-7883 or email 

jiwalker@earthlink.net 

WANTED: POSTAL HISTORY OF SUSSEX 

COUNTY: DPO postmarks: Culvers, Cutoff, Edison 

(pre 1910); stampless letters, OLD DEEDS, 

documents, memorabilia of all kinds. Contact Leonard 

R. Peck, 200 Bristol Glen Dr., Box 312, Newton, NJ 

07860 or call 973-300-5788 & ask for Len Peck. 

WANTED: SCOTT #610 MATCHED SET OF 

PLATE BLOCKS, F-VF or better, NH not 

required. Send scans or photocopies with price to 

Al Parsons, 809 Holley Rd., Elmira, NY 14905, 

607-732-0181, alatholleyrd@aol.com. 

ALWAYS DESIRED: FISH HOUSE, COVERS, 

BURLINGTON COUNTY ADVERTISING 

COVERS AND CORNER CARDS; 

BURLINGTON COUNTY DPOs. Email Paul W. 

Schopp at pwschopp@comcast.net. 

WANTED: MOUNTAIN LAKES, BOONTON, 

PARSIPPANY, TROY HILLS POSTAL 

HISTORY items. Describe or send photocopies 

for my very generous offer. APS (Life member), 

NJPHS member since 1980. Peter Lemmo, PO 

Box 557, Whippany NJ 07981-0557. 

WANTED: WWI & WWII CENSORED MAIL 

TO AND FROM TOWACO, NJ 07082. Email 

scans to hughtowaco@optonline.com or mail copy 

to POB #139, Towaco, NJ 07082-0139. 

WANTED: NJ DPOS, RPOS, NJ SMALL 

TOWN POSTCARDS, NJ RRs, Morris Canal 

Real Photo postcards, NJ towns’ fire stations. 

Contact Maurice Cuocci, 100 Evesham #B, 

Freehold, NJ 07728, 732-577-8214 or email 

lou2cuo@hotmail.com 

WANTED: Picture Post card of WEST 

ENGLEWOOD NATIONAL BANK. Contact 

Bill Berdan, 475 Forest Ave., Teaneck, NJ 07666 or 

by email at William.Berdan@gmail.com. 

WANTED: 1970’S UPS DENOMINATED 

STAMPS SOLD IN NORTHERN NJ BY 

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE. Also any 

literature, waybills, etc., about this UPS experiment 

with prepaid stamps. Contact Bruce Mosher, POB 

33236, Indialantic, Fl 32903, 321/723-7886 or e- 

mail bhmexp@digital.net.: 

WANTED: All GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NJ 

POSTAL HISTORY stampless to 1920. All 

Woodbury, NJ stampless to present. NEED 

BASSETT PO (DPO GlouCty 1891-1920) Warren 

Plank, POB 559, Woodbury 08096, 856/229-1458, 

webmaster@@NJPostalHistory.org. . 

WANTED; STAGE COVERS BEFORE 1860. 

All Eastern states. Also wanted: Confederate fakes 

and forgeries. Contact Steven M. Roth, 1280 21 st 

Street, NW, Suite 209, Washington, DC 20036, 

202/293-2563 or email stevenroth@comcast.net. 

COLLECTOR SEEKS LONG BEACH 

ISLAND POSTAL HISTORY, especially picture 

postcards. Please contact Michael White, P.O. Box 

5222, Saipan, MP 96950 or email 

mwhite@saipan.com. 

WANTED: FLORIDA STAMPLESS POSTAL 

HISTORY, Pre-territorial, Territorial, 

Statehood, Civil War periods. Contact William 

Johnson, 13691 Metropolitan Pkwy, Ft. Myers, 

FL 33912 or email whjdds@aol.com. 

19 TH CENTURY AND INTERESTING 

PATERSON WANTED. Contact George 

Kramer, 199 Charles St., Clifton, NJ 07013-3853, 

or email gjkk@optonline.net 

WANTED: RAMAPO WORKS, RAMAPO, 

NY, WYCKOFF, NJ, FABER’S MILLS, 

FABER, VA, any Monroe County, IN. Marge 

Faber, P.O. Box 1875, Bloomington, IN 47402 

or email margefaber@comcast.net. 


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