Bibliography Biography Cemeteries Churches Cities & Towns Contributors Ephemera Genealogy
Lake City Post Office
Lake City, Barber County, Kansas
Postmark: Lake City, Kansas, DEC 6, 1929 P.M.
From an envelope addressed to Frank Hoagland, Sun City, Kans.
Collection of Kim (Hoagland) Fowles.
| Name: | Title: | Date Appointed: |
| Gideon C. Smith | Postmaster | 12/09/1873 |
| Reuben Lake | Postmaster | 12/03/1875 |
| Isaac C. Cuppy | Postmaster | 10/03/1888 |
| Grant G. Shigley | Postmaster | 12/13/1889 |
| Henry F. Lake | Postmaster | 07/20/1907 |
| Mrs. Rose Lake | Acting Postmaster | 02/28/1951 |
| Mrs. Beulah V. Robbins | Postmaster | 08/23/1951 |
| Mrs. Mary E. Bahl | Acting Postmaster | 12/12/1958 |
| Mrs. Mary E. Bahl | Postmaster | 08/13/1959 |
| Mrs. Mary G. Hartley | Acting Postmaster | 12/27/1965 |
| Mrs. Thelma M. Compton | Acting Postmaster | 06/03/1966 |
| Mrs. Thelma M. Compton | Postmaster | 08/28/1967 |
| Judith S. Hoagland | Officer-In-Charge | 09/30/1985 |
| Judith S. Hoagland | Postmaster | 01/18/1986 |
Service suspended on October 3, 1990.
Discontinued on December 18, 1993; mail to Medicine Lodge
(Postal Bulletin 21856)
Reuben Lake was born in 1839 in Canada, moving to Illinois with his family when he was 16, and after service with the Union Army, emigrating to Mission near Erie in eastern Kansas, but later on to Barber County.
In April of 1873, together with ten companions, which included a younger brother, Frederick, as well as his son Riley, he came to Barber County. There he erected a sawmill to obtain lumber for the houses which were built. The families came in August but returned to Mission because of an Indian scare, immediately turning around as soon as the scare was over.
From then on the history of Reuben Lake and that of Lake City was inevitably mixed. Reuben, in the fall of 1873, was appointed the first (sic) postmaster of Lake City, mail being brought from Medicine Lodge by horseback. The first post office, along with a store, was in Reuben's home.
-- The Chosen Land, page 268.
The Bank Building, built 1907, Lake City, Barber County, Kansas.
The Lake City Post Office was in this building after the bank closed.
Photo courtesy of Kim Fowles.
Reuben Lake
Lake City Postmaster, 3 Dec 1875 - 3 Oct 1888
Photo courtesy of Kim Fowles.
Grant G. Shigley
Lake City Postmaster, 13 Dec 1889 - 20 July 1907
Photo courtesy of Kim Fowles.
Also see:
Lake City Plot Map, Barber County, Kansas
From Standard Atlas of Barber County, Kansas, 1905. Courtesy of Kim Fowles.Sun City Post Office, Sun City, Kansas
Thanks to Kim (Hoagland) Fowles for contributing the above information and images to this web site!
This RootsWeb website is being created by Jerry Ferrin with the able assistance of many Contributors. Your comments, suggestions and contributions of historical information and photographs to this site are welcome. Please sign the Guest Book. This page was created 7 March 2006 and was last updated 31 March 2008.