Joshua Fulton Ensor (1836-1907), a Maryland native, 1862 graduate of University of Maryland School of Medicine, and U.S. Army Surgeon, 1862-1865; arrived in Columbia, S.C., in 1865, served as medical purveyor for the Freedmen's Bureau at end of the Civil War; moved family from Virginia to Columbia in 1868; later acted as superintendent of the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, 1870-1878; served as postmaster of Columbia.
J.F. Ensor also served as chief inspector of customs for the port of Charleston, 1879-1882; as deputy collector of internal revenue, 1882-1894; was twice nominated as Republican congressional candidate and was selected as a delegate to the 1892 Republican national convention before being appointed in 1897 as postmaster of Columbia by President McKinley, then reappointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1901.
From the description of Ensor family papers, 1857-1912. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 29948637
