Alonzo Richardson took the post office (postmaster, 1849–56).

The evidence

• “On July 12, 1844, Griswold Weaver succeeded him. August 16, 1849, John F. Gillman was appointed to the position and on the 5th of September, in the same year, Alonzo Richardson took the office.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 135 / book p. 644

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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