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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1906
Page
1
A captioned photo lists the Baraboo postmaster A P Cheek and 11 associates including Oscar Doppler and Henry C Black. It notes Daniel s residence in Reedsburg as substitute clerk, Wilby as a substitute carrier, Hofman as longest serving carrier since free city delivery began, and praises the multilingual clerks who handle death and marriage notices and other mail.
The Gem City’s new post office sits one block south of the Bank of Baraboo, across from the High school. Built with Menomonie brick, Bedford stone, granite and terracotta, the interior features quarter-sawed oak and terrezzo floors. The project cost 45000 dollars with most paid to contractor Henry Ferge. Burlingame may move his Internal Revenue office to Baraboo. Postmaster Check plans a February 22 public inspection day.
Baraboo's post office and postmaster stood as central to community life in early days before free delivery and rapid transport. The 1847 appointment of Dr. Seth P. Angle marks the first postmaster, with office likely near the Daniel Kelsey blacksmith shop on Water Street, as Baraboo’s town name settled in 1852.
Geo D. Perkins recalls Lucy Forsyth Perkins Baraboo postmaster under Pierce. He recounts 1851 death of his father, the family’s move from Milwaukee, and his mother keeping a home and the post office with limited funds while offering aid to boarders including Dr. Alex.
The Baraboo post office, housed at 122 Second Street east of the High School from 1853 to 1857, is shown in an old illustration now residing with Mrs. Lucy White. Ex-Congressman George D. Perkins notes the image once sent to his Toronto sister and recalls milking the cow and chopping wood near the line of a high board fence, plus a humorous incident with a boarder and a corn cob.
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