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- Poormaster is the name of a now obsolete job position similar to that of Paymaster. Most of the states in the early United States had their own poormaster...
- of Historic Places in 1994. Harvey Whalen, a farmer and Penfield town Poormaster, left the house and surrounding Maple Hill Farm to his sons. Of the three...
- abolished the post of overseer of the poor, and the state took over welfare. Poormaster Overseer (slave plantation) "The 1601 Elizabethan Poor Law". www.victorianweb...
- New York Times, June 1, 1900. Accessed December 29, 2016. "He served as Poormaster from 1870 to 1873, was a School Trustee for six years, then Chief of Police...