On January 29, 1761, Albert Gallatin was born. Gallatin served as the fourth United States Secretary of the Treasury — a post in which he served longer than any other in American history — advanced the anthropological and linguistic study of native Americans, and became the subject of a biography by Henry Adams. Called the “father of American ethnology,” he has been honored with a 1967 U.S. stamp as well as many place names, including the Gallatin National Forest in Montana.
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I’m a bit concerned that the US Postal Service issued 1¼¢ stamps. By law, the smallest unit of account has long been the mil, which is one thousandth of a dollar, and thus one tenth of a cent. But a quarter-cent cannot be manifested in an integral number of mils; it involves a half of the legally indivisible mil.