Listing of Mentor, Ohio Post Office Postmasters

(Originally established in Geauga County)

Name Title Date Appointed

Daniel Kerr Postmaster February 16, 1819

Washington Parker Postmaster September 5, 1832

Daniel Kerr Postmaster March 24, 1834

Herman Brown Postmaster September 26, 1836

Sumner Taylor Postmaster April 8, 1839

(Became Lake County in 1840)

Clark Parker Postmaster July 1, 1841

Amos Birchard Postmaster September 23, 1845

Erastus Briggs Postmaster March 8, 1847

William S. Kerr Postmaster June 1, 1849

Eleazer Burridge Postmaster June 7, 1853

Daniel Holmes Postmaster January 22, 1855

Duthan Northrup Postmaster May 27, 1861

Franklin Parker Postmaster March 2, 1871

Lester H. Luse Postmaster July 26, 1877

Robert Radcliffe Postmaster September 14, 1877

Martin V. Hopkins Postmaster December 11, 1885

Franklin M. Smith Postmaster July 19, 1897

Thomas H. Code Postmaster January 31, 1914

William F. Lyons Postmaster December 4, 1922

Glen F. Carver Postmaster April 25, 1936

William A. Collins Acting Postmaster December 30, 1964

Roger A. Kraft Acting Postmaster May 7, 1965

Roger A. Kraft Postmaster August 18, 1966

William A. Collins Acting Postmaster April 28, 1972

William A. Collins Postmaster September 2, 1972

Richard Baldwin Officer-in-Charge December 31, 1977

Perry S. Metcalf Postmaster June 3, 1978

Kim E. Dellinger Officer-in-Charge March 19, 1992

JoAnn Greene Officer-in-Charge June 15, 1992

JoAnn Greene Postmaster January 23, 1993

Leon Grigsby Officer-in-Charge September 8, 1999

List compiled by William A. Collins, Postmaster Retired, 1972, Mentor, OH