Picture & list of Carriers, August 1937

Picture & list of Clerks, August 1937

List of Post Office Employees c. 1950-1985
courtesy of Paul Burke.

David, James (1950-1960) - 2
DeAngelo, Jennie DiCostanza (WWI era) - 6

"My mother, Jennie DiCostanza DeAngelo, was a clerk there during the years of WWII. There was an article about her and her job printed in the Chester Times."

DeAngelo, Joe - 6

"My father, Joe DeAngelo, was a letter carrier there during the decade of the 50s. He wore badge #30 and delivered mail in the Flower Street area of the city."

Diamond, Bill (1950's, 1960's) - 1

Farraday, Lester (1900-)
Faucett, John (1950's, 1960's) - 1

Goldsworthy, Fred was a window clerk - 5
Goldsworthy, Howard R, carrier, (brother of Robert Goldy Goldsworthy) - 5
Goldsworthy, Robert (Goldy) carried mail for 41 years - 5

Higgins, Edward (1900-)

Kelly-Ogurko, Janet (Goldsworthy), clerk - 5

LaSpina, Al (1950's, 1960's) - 1
Lawton, Lewis

Macklem, William (1900-)
Mills, Bob (1950's, 1960's) - 1
Matteo, George (1950's, 1960's) - 1
Murray, Albert E. (1970's) - 4

Noden, Harold

Perretta, Jill - 6

"Even I was a temporary employee of the Chester Post Office during the Christmas rush when I was in college in the 60s. We were a Chester Post Office family!"

Pierce, John A.

Redding, Joe (1950's, 1960's)- 1

Shadwell, John (during the time that Emil Baiocco was Postmaster) - 2

Talbot, John (1950's, 1960's) - 1

Walker, Samuel (1900-)
Worrilow, Bill (1950's, 1960's) - 1

The growth of the Postal Service in Chester reflects but the growth of the City itself. In 1788 the Service had an humble beginning with Miles Macarty recording the first return to the Federal Government. Until 1866, the post office led a nomadic existence in the parlors and stores of the postmasters and postmistresses, and in locations always within easy reach of the hub of local activities - Market Square.

Our City Fathers in 1866 erected a brick addition to the north side of the City Hall (now the Old Court House), and therein was established the first Federal-leased post office in Chester. In 1880 the business was transferred to the James Building, part of which still stands, on Edgmont Avenue at Fifth Street.

This was followed in 1896 by the erection of the first Federal-owned building in Chester, at Fifth and Welsh streets. This is the structure we have known and used these forty years, and its imminent abandonment is submerged in the dedication at this time of our New Post Office at Fifth Street and Edgmont Avenue, the seventeenth site to have been used by the Postal Service, - the second structure to have been owned and erected by the Federal Government.

Mr. Hiorth is the twenty-eighth person to have filled the position of Postmaster of Chester, Pennsylvania.

#7 Bickley's Drug Store

#10 Harpur's Store

#14 Old City Hall Annex

#15 James' Building

#16 Federal Building (above)