Starrucca
Postmasters

from Mathews, pp. 727-8 The first post-office at Starrucca was established upwards of fifty years ago. The records now to be found at Starrucca do not give exact dates; neither do they give the name of the first postmaster. However, tradition says that Thomas Carr was the first postmaster, and that in 1836 the mail was carried from Deposit, N. Y., to Echo, Pa. (now Thompson, Pa.), via Starrucca, by Nathan Dean, and afterwards by S. O. Dean, who at the time of his death, in 1885, was president of the village of Deposit. In 1850 the mail-route was changed, making Lanesboro, Pa., the starting-point, and, going by the way of Starrucca, Thompson, Ararat, Jackson and Gibson, Pa., terminating at Harford, Pa. This route remained unchanged until the completion of the Jefferson Branch of the Erie Railroad, since which time the mail has been carried by D. T.Benedict from the railroad station to the post-office. The names of those who officiated as postmasters at Starrucca since 1836 are James Cowan, James Howe, Lewis A. Osborn, Nelson M. Benedict (Mr. Benedict receiving his commission from President Pierce, and retaining the position until 1869), Colonel George B. Osborn, Henry F. Aldrich and James E. Farrell, the present incumbent. from 1972 booklet

1830-1972 Spoor, David Carr, Thomas Cowan, James Howe, James Osborne, Lewis A. Benedict, Nelson M. Osborne, Col. George B. Aldrich, Henry F. Farrell, James E. Mumford, W. W. Conley, John Crossley, James Erk, William Carpenter, Grace Glover, Horace Holland, John Karcher, Edward French, Lloyd Brooking, Ralph

updated from 1972

Allen, Jean Cottrell, Arlene Mroz, Gail Zipprich, Paul (current)