New To Forum Showing Confederate Cover

Ok here is a nice different one Inter-governmental mail was sent free. Here is a letter from San Fransisco to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Mr Denver was Comissioner for only part of one year so the letter was sent in 1857

Sorry I misstated a fact in the previous post as this next cover shows. Also the previous cover could have been sent in any of the three years 1857,1858 and 1859. This surrent cover is dated 1859
James W Denver came back to the Indian affairs department in 1858 and 1859
Here is a little Bio on James W Denver
After the discovery of gold in 1849, Denver lead a wagon train of 34 people to California along the Oregon Trail. Unsuccessful in prospecting for gold, politics proved to be his golden opportunity when California became the 31st state on September 5, 1850. In 1851, James Denver was elected to the California State Senate. In 1853, he was appointed California Secretary of State and elected Representative to the U.S. Congress.

President James Buchanan appointed Denver U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs in April of 1857. In late December of 1857, Buchanan reassigned Denver as Acting Governor of the Kansas Territory. This was a volatile time during Kansas' History because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This act required that citizens of new territories vote for pro-slave or free status. In 1858, he was made the official Governor of the Territory. During this time, Colorado was part of the Kansas Territory. The city of Denver, Colorado was named in his honor.

In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Denver to Union Brigadier General of Volunteers. After the Civil War, Denver relocated to Washington D.C where he practiced law until his death.


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According to Wiki, the original intent for the naming of Denver (City), Colorado after him kind of backfired:




In any event, it's always interesting to put a face with the name:

these are fantastic......i thing the only thing my grandfathers ever gave me was a cold.

This next cover is a mystery to me. I cannot really read what is going on. The author of the letter must have been a foriegner [my guess is Poland] as he uses Amerikea in the address. I cannot read where it was sent from but it begins with F and ends with "odja" [the o has an umlaut] as well as a separate "T" cancellation and it arrived in New York in 1891 with 10 cents postage due. It continued on to Cadillac Michagan to where it was addressed. The 10 cent postage due stamp is on the reverse of the cover. Wt can you figure this one out?

I'm still loving your posts, chic. Keep 'em coming.
Interestingly, I have a cover posted from my hometown St. Catharines Ont. Canada in 1892 to Arthur St. Clair Denver, James Denver's brother. And of course I wouldn't have known that without Mr WT1's incredible store of knowledge.

great material - keep it coming - enjoying.

chic Cadillac, MI is about 60 miles west from our house. It looks like he wrote and addressed the letter one place I cannot decipher but mailed it from Cadillac.

Actually Tinman It was written in a foreign country and sent through New York to a gentleman in Cadillac, Wexford County Amerika
The Cadillac Postmark on the backwas for the ten cents recieved in postage due from the Addresee which was paid in Cadillac Michigan

Ah Ha Gotcha. Thanks!

Such interesting stuff!

Here is something different

Here is something different

Sorry about the double posting.

Here are some fancy cancellations on 1851 3 cent red brown stamps