Name/Title
William Lyne WilsonEntry/Object ID
IMG829 veDescription
Several attempts to establish a rural delivery service had met with either lack of interest or lack of funding until 1896 when $30,000 was made available and Postmaster General William Lyne Wilson began an experiment with rural delivery in his home county. Mr. Wilson was born just outside of Middleway in Jefferson County and served as Postmaster General from 1895 to 1897.
Upper: Image of William L. Wilson, date unknown. (Smithsonian National Postal Museum)
Lower left: Wilson's boyhood Middleway home, date unknown. (The National Rural Letter Carrier, Vol. 80, No. 36, September 26, 1981)
Lower right: William L. Wilson's home, later in life, on South Mildred Street in Charles Town, date unknown. (IMG1963)