Miami County OhArchives Photo Group.....Troy Postmaster Retires April 30, 1948
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Postmaster Algy R Murphy announced Monday that Superintendent of
Mails, Walter J. Kingham has made application for retirement from the
postal service and that the post office department had accepted his
retirement to be effective April 30, 1948.
With his retirement, Kingham ended a career of 43 years of service in the
Troy post office, having been first appointed in 1905 as a clerk…..at a
salary of $500 a year. In 1908 he was appointed superintendent of mails
at an annual salary of $1500. He served in this position a total of 30
years.
Kingham has seen many changes take place in the postal service during
his long career, including the inauguration of parcel post, air mail, postal
notes, 8-hour day for employees, 40 hour work week, sick leave, annual
leave and now the new liberal retirement law. He has seen the postal
receipts grow from $18,000 to a high of $206,000 and shared the pride of
his fellow employees when the post office was moved from the Lollis
Hotel building in 1933. He has seen complete changes in personnel, the
rolls growing from a mere four or five employees to the present
complement of 14 clerks, 12 city letter carriers, three custodial
employees, three rural carriers and four regularly employed substitute
clerk carriers
Mr. Kingham was born in Casstown, and has spent his entire life in this
vicinity. He has been active in church work. He and Mrs. Kingham live at
523 South Mulberry street. They have five children, Willard, Marvin,
Robert, and Mrs. Roger Clyne all living in Troy, and Paul of Milford
Center, Ohio. Robert Kingham was just recently appointed substitute
clerk by Postmaster Murphy.
In announcing his retirement Postmaster Murphy spoke in high terms of
Kingham’s long period of efficient and faithful service and expressed that
he and Mrs. Kingham might have a long period of pleasant and very
much deserved retirement.

Additional Comments:
Left to right are Postmaster Algy R Murphy, Walter J Kingham, W. Horton 
Hitchcock and Wilbur Deweese. This was cut out of a newspaper and in a family 
scrapbook album. 

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