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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 17 x 10.5, December 12, 1872. President Grant appoints James R. Woolfender [sic] as “Deputy Postmaster at Neosho, in the State of Missouri.” Signed at the conclusion by U.S. Grant and countersigned by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. The original white seal remains affixed to the lower left. In very good and fragile condition, with small areas of paper loss to the edges and folds. James R. Woolfenden (1838-1898) was a Massachusetts native who served in the Union Army during the Civil War with the Wisconsin 2nd Cavalry and was discharged with the rank of Adjutant in 1865.
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