U. S. Grant Document Signed as President Partly-printed... Lot 27

U. S. Grant Document Signed as President Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 17.5 x 14, April 29, 1874. President Grant appoints Loren B. Hurd as “Postmaster at Springfield in the County of Windsor, State of Vermont.” Signed boldly at the conclusion by U.S. Grant and countersigned by Postmaster General John A. J. Creswell. The dark orange Post Office Department seal remains affixed to the lower left. In fine condition. Loren Bascomb Hurd (1836-1910), a New Hampshire native, served as Postmaster in Springfield, Vermont, from 1874 to 1885. He served under four U.S. Presidents, all Republicans who had served as officers in the U.S. Army during the Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur. President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, suspended Hurd in 1885. Local residents, Republicans and Democrats, tried unsuccessfully in 1889 to have Loren returned to the Postmaster position.