Ozro A. Hadley was born on June 26, 1826, at
Cherry Creek in Chautauqua County, New York, the son of Alvah Hadley and Eunice
Bates Hadley. He served as governor of Arkansas from 1871 to 1873 after Powell
Clayton became a United States Senator. Hadley owned a plantation on Grand
Prairie in Lonoke county, and served as the registrar of the United States Land
Office at Little Rock from 1875 until 1877. President Rutherford B. Hayes
appointed him postmaster of Little Rock on June 6, 1877, and he served until
1882, when he moved to New Mexico Territory. He died July 18, 1915.
This collection contains correspondence, post
office forms, legal papers, receipts, and other materials.
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1.
Biographical information (Box 1)
·
General
Correspondence
o 2. 1875: William M. Knight, Carlisle,
Arkansas, to Ozro A. Hadley
o 3. 1876 January-June: William M. Knight,
Carlisle, Arkansas, to Ozro A. Hadley
o 4. 1876 July-December: William M. Knight,
Carlisle, Arkansas, to Ozro A. Hadley
o 5. 1877: William M. Knight, Carlisle,
Arkansas, to Ozro A. Hadley
o 6. 1876-1877: Edgar B. Knight, Carlisle,
Arkansas, to Ozro A. Hadley
o 7. 1878: B.D. Wuzzy, postmaster, Carlisle,
Arkansas, to Ozro A. Hadley
o 8. 1878: James D. Collins, Carlisle, Arkansas,
to Ozro A. Hadley
o 9. 1876-1877: R.A. Gibson, Carlisle, Arkansas,
to Ozro A. Hadley
o 10. 1876-1877: [?], Carlisle, Arkansas, to
Ozro A. Hadley
o 11. 1872
o 12. 1874
o 13. 1875
o 14. 1876 January
o 15. 1876 February-March
o 16. 1876 April-May
o 17. 1876 June-July
o 18. 1876 August-October
o 19. 1876 November-December
o 20. 1877 January
o 21. 1877 February-March
o 22. 1877 April
o 23. 1877 May
o 24. 1877 June-August
o 25. 1877 September-October
o 26. 1877 November
o 27. 1877 December 1-18
o 28. 1877 December 19-24
o 29. 1877 December 25-31
o 30. 1878 January
o 31. 1878 February
o 32. 1878 March
o 33. 1878 April
o 34. 1878 May
o 35. 1878 June
o 36. 1878 July
o 37. 1878 August
o 38. 1878 September
o 39. 1878 October
o 40. 1878 November
o 41. 1878 December
o 42. 1879 January-June
o 43. 1879 July-December
o 44. 1880 January-April
o 45. 1880 May-December
o 46. 1881
o 47. 1884
o 48. Undated
o 49. Undated: Messages, yellow fever
quarantine, mail delivery
o 50. Undated: Western Union telegraphs
o 51. Undated: Miscellaneous notes
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Post
Office
o 52. Circular number 49 A-B (Box 2)
o 53. Circular number 49 C
o 54. Circular number 49 D-F
o 55. Circular number 49 G
o 56. Circular number 49 H-I
o 57. Circular number 49 J-L
o 58. Circular number 49 M
o 59. Circular number 49 N-Q
o 60. Circular number 49 R
o 61. Circular number 49 S
o 62. Circular number 49 T-V
o 63. Circular number 49 W-Z
o 64. Circular number 49 B, auditor
o 65. Circular number 51, collecting division
o 66. Circular number 58, postmaster, collection
of balance
o 67. Circular number 58 B, postmaster,
collection of balance
o 68. Circular number 59, auditor
o 69. Miscellaneous postmaster forms
o 70. Balance due the United States (Box 3)
o 71. Office of the Auditor of the Treasury
o 72. Route contractor order forms
o 73. 1881: Salary reports
o 74. Damaged supply return forms
o 75. Registered letters reports
o 76. 1880-1881: Mail matter reports
o 77. Requisiton, free Post Office envelopes,
official stamped envelopes, special stamps
o 78. 1877: Statements of postage
o 79. 1878: Statements of postage
o 80. 1879: Statements of postage
o 81. 1880: Statements of postage
o 82. 1881 and undated: Statements of postage
o 83. Quarter-year return, receipts for boxes,
supplies
o 84. Number 27, receipts
o 85. Number 1526, receipts
o 86. Miscellaneous
o 87. 1877: Payroll (Folder 4)
o 88. 1878: Payroll
o 89. 1879: Payroll
o 90. 1880: Payroll
o 91. 1881 and undated: Payroll
o 92. 1880: Number 3018, general account
o 93. 1881: Number 3018, general account
o 94. Undated: Number 3018, general account
o 95. Undated: Accounts of mail received
o 96. 1877-1881: General postal accounts (Box 5)
o 97. 1877-1879: Presidential office class 2
o 98. Miscellaneous, file 1 of 3
o 99. Miscellaneous, file 2 of 3
o 100. Miscellaneous, file 3 of 3
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101.
1879: Legal papers
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Receipts
o 102. Alcoholic beverages, tobacco (Box 6)
o 103. Arkansas State Fair Association
o 104. 1878 August 10-November 14: Hay bales
o 105. Freight contract bills
o 106. Clothing, supplies
o 107. Coal, oil, gas
o 108. Meat
o 109. Doctors, pharmacists
o 110. Local taxes
o 111. Hardware, carriages, plumbers, foundry
o 112. Ice companies
o 113. Jewelry stores
o 114. Kellogg and Company, booksellers,
stationers
o 115. Little Rock postmaster
o 116. Luggage
o 117. Mail messenger service
o 118. 1878-1881: Maxwell and Edmonson, grocers
o 119. Miscellaneous
o 120. Newspaper subscriptions
o 121. Printers
o 122. Railway postal clerk service
o 123. 1877-1878: Registered letters return
o 124. Route agent service
o 125. S.H. Squires, forwarding and commission
merchant
o 126. S. Navra, china, glass, crockery,
silver-plated wares
o 127. Various edibles
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128.
Promisorry notes, checks
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129.
Read and Miller patent coin trays
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130.
Broadsides
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131.
Land office homestead forms
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132.
War Department forms, Little Rock postmaster, payment vouchers
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133.
Legal documents
