Fairmount Township Post Office
Hon. C.C. Lyons Mrs. Gladys Lyons Knight
Former State Senator and Postmaster Former Postmistress
The first postoffice was located in a frame house built by William Hall, situated at the southwest corner of Adams and Main Streets. This was the third frame house built in Fairmount. The second frame dwelling was built by David Stanfield, on the northwest corner of Adams and Main Streets.
William Hall was the first postmaster. In 1844 he had been elected class leader and then ordained a minister in the United Brethren Church. His duties as a circuit rider took him away from his home a large part of the time, and as he thought the work of the office was too arduous for his family during his enforced and many times prolonged absence, he gave up the office and turned it over to Joseph W. Baldwin, who kept it in his storeroom.
Others who served as postmaster since the days of William Hall and Joseph Baldwin may be mentioned, Alex Henley, Al H. Johnson, Ephraim Smith, T.P. Latham, W.H. Campbell, J.D. Latham, C.D. Overman, C.C. Lyons, Miss Gladys Lyons and W.P. Van Arsdall.
Source: The Making of a Township, being an account of the early settlement and subsequent development of Fairmount Township, Grant County, Indiana 1829-1917.