Des Moines Post Office

ID: 267 ~ Source: Historic Tour #1: Des Moines: Confluence of People and Resources. Des Moines Public Library, 1982. ~ Date: 1850
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Des Moines Post Office

Photograph of the front and side facade of the first post office in Des Moines, Iowa. It was located at 2nd Avenue near Vine Street. Hoyt Sherman served as postmaster.

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This file appears in: Hoyt Sherman

By DMPL Team
Major Hoyt Sherman was born in Ohio in 1827, the youngest of 11 children. His father was an Ohio Supreme Court judge, his brother John became the U.S. Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of State, and his brother William Tecumseh Sherman, a famous…