384 History of Hingham. 



OFFICE. POSTMASTER. DATE OF APPOINTMENT. 



Hingham, Mass. . . . Edwin Wilder (reappointed) . . June 29, 1883 



George Cushing Feb. 28, 1888 



South Hingham . . . Quincy Lane Mar. 28, 1833 



Seth S. Hersey Aug. 25, 1849 



Ezekiel Fearing Aug. 27, 1853 



Ebenezer C. Fearing Oct. 28, 1853 



Edmund French June 6, 1854 



Andrew Cushing Jan. 25, 1855 



Josiah Lane June 18, 18G7 



Alonzo Cushing Jan. 17, 1872 



William Cushing June 29, 1881 



Hingham Centre . . . Henry Siders July 15, 1869 



Daniel Wing Dec. 21, 1874 



Hawkes Fearing Dec. 28, 1875 



Peter N. Sprague Mar. 22, 1880 



Seth Sprague, 2d Nov. 20, 1888 



West Hingham . . . Bela F. Lincoln June 25, 1881 



The above list was furnished, in March, 1890, by Mr. Marshall 

 Cushing [II. 180], private secretary to Postmaster-General 

 Wanamaker. Of the above-named, George M. Hudson, Ezekiel 

 Fearing, and Ebenezer C. Fearing do not appear to have qualified 

 themselves to act. 



The Hingham post-office has always been kept within a stone's 

 throw of Broad Bridge. 



Thomas Thaxter kept it in Loring's Building, on the westerly 

 side of Main Street, at Broad Bridge, where the Federalists used to 

 assemble and discuss the affairs of the town. Elisha Cushing 

 kept it in the building which formerly stood on the southeasterly 

 corner of Main and South streets. 



Thomas Loud kept it in his hatter's-shop on the hill in front 

 of the Academy until the hill was removed, after which he kept it 

 in Loring's Building. Here it was kept also by John Kingman 

 and Rufus W. Lincoln until the latter removed it to the central 

 part of Ford's Building, across Thaxter's Bridge. In 1853 Charles 

 B. W. Lane removed it to his store at the junction of North and 

 South streets, which is now the Isaac Little Hose house. 



Hosea J. Gardner moved it to the building at the northeasterly 

 corner of Main and South streets. Here it was kept for a time by 

 Mr. Gardner, Mr. Siders, and Miss Gardner, and then removed to 

 South Street in the new Lincoln Building, nearly on the same site 

 as that occupied by previous postmasters in the Loring Building. 

 It remained continuously in the Lincoln Building until George 

 Cushing's appointment, when he removed it to the building on the 

 northwest side of South Street, just east of Main Street. 



The South Hingham post-office was first kept by Quincy Lane 

 in his store on the east side of Main Street. Seth S. Hersey 

 moved it farther north to the building next to his dwelling-house. 

 Edmund French kept it near the present residence of Charles W. 

 Cushing. Andrew Cushing kept it in the southerly end of his 

 house. Josiah Lane moved it to his store, which was its original 



