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 Governor, 1894 — 
 
The Old Represei^tatives' Hale, 
 1798-1895. 
 
 AN ADDRESS 
 
 DELIVERED BEFORE THE 
 
 Massachusetts House of Eepresentatives, 
 
 Jaxuary 2, 1895, 
 
 BY 
 
 Alfred Seelye Boe 
 
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 WORCESTER. 
 
 BOSTON : 
 
 WRIGHT AND POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 
 
 18 Post Office Squake. 
 
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[From the Jovrxal of the House.] 
 
 January 2, 1895. 
 
 Mr. Roe of Woix-ester offered the following order : 
 
 Ordered, That when the House adjourns to-day it be to meet 
 to-morrow at 11 o'clock a.m., in the chamber set apart foi- the 
 House of Representatives in the State House Extension, and 
 that hereafter tliat be the pLace of meetinir. 
 
 After remarks hy INIr. IIoe, the order was adopted, and, 
 on motion of Mr. Gkover of Canton, the thanks of the 
 House were extended to Mr. Roe for his address, and the 
 remarks were ordered to ])e printed and suital)ly Ijound 
 as a House document. 
 
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ADDRESS. 
 
 Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen^ of the 
 House of Representatives : — While a new 
 chamber, resplendent with gilt and marble, awaits 
 us, a place adorned by all that fancy could depict 
 and art apply, yet it must witness the passing of 
 a century ere it gathers the interest that attaches 
 to this hall Avhich we are about to leave. And 
 now, when our departure is at hand, it would 
 seem that the event merited more than the mere 
 gathering up of our effects and our going hence. 
 Accordingly, from word of mouth, from books 
 and from tradition, I have collected data and 
 incident which, in this parting hour, I submit for 
 your consideration and as a final tribute to this 
 place, replete with the memories of a hundred 
 years. 
 
 Ninety-seven years ago one week from next 
 Friday, or on Thursday, the eleventh day of 
 January, 1798, the Legislature of Massachusetts 
 assembled for the last time in the old capitol on 
 
6 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 State Street. Agreeably to a vote, taken early in 
 that day, the members were to march at noon to 
 the new edifice then completed on Beacon Hill. 
 The structure that they were leaving had stood 
 just fifty years from its reconstruction, following 
 the fire of 1747. The one which they were about 
 to occupy was to see nearly twice that term of 
 service. Had the artist of the day depicted the 
 scene as those worthies, who constituted the ex- 
 ecutive department and General Court of the 
 Commonwealth, filed out for their memorable 
 march, he would have drawn first the dignified 
 figure of Increase Sumner, and by his side that 
 of Moses Gill, respectively Governor and Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor. Near them were the other 
 executive officers with the Council, and follow- 
 ing were the Senators, led by President Samuel 
 Phillips, and the Representatives, at whose head 
 was Edward Hutchinson Robbins of Milton. A 
 large share of these men had seen service during 
 the war of the Revolution, which was still a com- 
 paratively recent event. As the season was that 
 of winter, we may conclude that these gentlemen 
 took the most direct route to the new edifice; and, 
 this being the case, they must have walked along 
 
Increase Sumner. 
 
 Born Nov. 27, 1746; died June 7, 1799. 
 Governor, 1797 — June 7, 1799. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 
 
 what is now Washington Street to School, and 
 thence up that, across Tremont to Beacon, and so 
 to their destination. In this journey they passed 
 few structures standing to-day. Before reaching 
 the old corner book store, then, as now, on School 
 and Washington, there were possibly two build- 
 ings still in existence; one adjoining the book 
 store (277 and 279 Washington), the other 
 farther north, and at j^resent undergoing certain 
 repairs (235 Washington). On School Street, 
 three ancient buildings (jSTos. 5, 7 and 11), just 
 west of the store, are apparently nearly as old as 
 the latter. Of the Province House, which stood 
 farther south, there is now only a small part of 
 its rear Avail (11 and 13 Pi-ovince Court), but, 
 meagre as it is, often sought by him who reveres 
 the past. King's Chapel is, as it was, a silent 
 witness of the mutations of more than a century. 
 Whatever there may have been in the way of 
 buildings for the remainder of the journey, cer- 
 tainly nothing continues in our day. But then, 
 as they neared the front of, at that time, the most 
 pretentious capitol in America, they could see 
 plainly, for it was close at hand, the Hancock 
 mansion, and, remembering how dear to the 
 
THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 Continental president had been the project of 
 a State House near his dweUing, we may imag- 
 ine many a sturdy Kei^resentative nudging his 
 neighbor, as they turned to enter the edifice, and 
 remarking, " If the old governor had only lived 
 to see this day ! " They had just passed the last 
 resting place of the patriot and statesman in the 
 Granary burying ground, where to-day, after 
 more than a hundred years, his grave has no 
 adequate memorial.^ AVe can fancy the long line 
 of men filing rapidly through Doric Hall and up 
 the stairways to this chamber, and occupying, for 
 the first time, the seats prepared for their recep- 
 tion. It was the winter session of the Legislat- 
 ure of 1797-1798. Speaker Kobbins must have 
 held the gavel, unless he passed it over to 
 President Phillips." Be this as it may, there 
 is no doubt that Gov. Increase Sumner, on the 
 succeeding day, addressed the assembled bodies 
 in the following words : — 
 
 1 The Lei^'islature of 1894 appropriated $3,000 for the purpose of markin.;^ 
 this grave, and proposals for designs have been solicited. 
 
 " Samuel Phillips, born in North Andover, Feb. 7, 1751 ; died there, Feb. 
 10, 1802; Lieutenant-Governor of the Commonwealth at the time. Twenty 
 years a State senator and for fifteen years president of the Senate, said years 
 consecutive (1782-1801), except the single year's presidency, in 1787-88, of 
 Samuel Adams. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentle- 
 men OF the House of Representatives : 
 
 While I rejoice with you, and my fellow citizens 
 at large, on the completion of this stately edifice, 
 not less honorable to the Commonwealth, at whose 
 expense it was erected, than ornamental to the 
 capital which generously provided the place, per- 
 mit me to express my entire satisfaction at the 
 ingenious manner in which the plan has been 
 executed. Begun and finished in little more than 
 two years, it exhibits a pleasing proof of the 
 architecture, skill and fidelity of your agents who 
 planned and superintended the work, while it 
 demonstrates the ability of the artificers who 
 performed it. 
 
 Combining the advantages of suitable retire- 
 ment, a healthy situation and delightful prospect 
 with such elegant and very convenient apartments 
 for the security of the records and for transacting 
 the public business, there is perhaps no public 
 building to be found within the United States 
 more useful or magnificent. I am confident that 
 you, gentlemen of both Houses of the Legislature, 
 will cordially join me in the fervent wish that this 
 State House may long remain a monument of the 
 public spirit of the citizens of Massachusetts, as 
 well as a testimony of their respect to our happy 
 political institutions. We will then, under the 
 smiles of Heaven, unite in dedicating it to the 
 honor, freedom, independence and security of 
 our country. In this House may the true i)rin- 
 ciples of the best system of civil government the 
 
10 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 world has ever seen be uniformly supported; here 
 may every practice and principle be successfully 
 opposed that tend to impair it; here may every 
 act of the Legislature be the result of cool delib- 
 eration and sound judgment; and in this House, 
 on all necessary occasions, may the Supreme 
 Executive, agreeably to the laws of the land, in 
 mercy cause judgment to be executed, and each 
 branch of our elective government continue faith- 
 ful in the discharge of its trust. God grant that 
 neither external force or influence, nor internal 
 commotion or violence, may ever shake the pillars 
 of our free Republic. 
 
 The men thus addressed would have been note- 
 worthy anywhere, but to us they have a pecul- 
 iar interest as our predecessors, nearly a hundred 
 years aAvay. They were only seventeen years 
 from the close of the Revolutionary war. Among 
 a people that had sent into the struggle more than 
 92,000 men it would not be strange if a large per- 
 centage of the men before us had borne arms in 
 that immortal strife.^ It is certain that very few 
 of those whose names have been borne on the 
 wings of fame had no part in that conflict. While 
 some of the leading officers may not have carried 
 
 ' Reference to the revolutionary archives discloses that at least ninety-one of 
 these Representatives had seen service during the struggle for liberty. Many of 
 them had served throughout the war, attaining, in many cases, high rank. 
 
Moses Gill. 
 
 Born Jan. i8, 1733; died May 20, 1800. 
 Lieutenant-Governor, 1794— May 20, 1800. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. H 
 
 muskets, yet in some way they had periled life 
 and reputation for what they deemed the right. 
 There were one hundred and eighty-nine members 
 of the House, and they came from all parts of the 
 Commonwealth, including the district of Maine. 
 The town of Lincoln sends her honored son, Capt. 
 Samuel Hoai-, the grandfather of our United 
 States Senator, Geo. F. Hoar, himself a man who 
 could tell the story of fighting for fatherland. He 
 had been one of the party that conducted to the 
 seaboard the British officers and men captured at 
 Saratoga. Here, too, is Richard Devens, whose 
 blood three generations afterwards was to appear 
 in the person of Charles Devens, soldier and 
 jurist; and the great-grandfather is a soldier also 
 — one of the men sent by Charlestown. Among 
 the Boston members is Dr. William Eustis, who 
 throughout the war had done efficient service as a 
 surgeon, and who, a few years afterwards, was to 
 be governor of the State. Worcester sends down 
 Levi Lincoln, Sr., for many years an invaluable 
 holder of State and national office, lieutenant-gov- 
 ernor in 1807-1809 and again in 1823-1824. He 
 had responded as a minute man. And there was 
 Caleb Strong from JS'orthampton, a man for the 
 
12 THE OLD llEPKESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 times, bearing in his nature all the qualities indi- 
 cated in his name, the man who later had the 
 hardihood to oppose the war of 1812, not because 
 he was afraid to fight, for he knew the whole 
 story of the Revolution. He had been Senator in 
 the national capital, and was to be the very next 
 governor, in which capacity he had the bravery to 
 overlook the beruffled gentry of the existing ju- 
 diciary, and to make Theophilus Parsons chief 
 justice of the supreme court, an act for which sub- 
 sequent generations cannot be grateful enough. 
 As a study of heredity it is interesting to com- 
 pare the names of these Representatives of a 
 century since with those of the men last elected 
 to this body, and I find no less than thirty-eight 
 coincidences. I cannot state that the members of 
 to-day are descended from the good men of 1798, 
 but the surnames continue. Going through the 
 list, I find Barnes (2), Bates, Bliss, Brown (2), 
 Clark, Drew, Drury, Holland, Holt, Howe, Hutch- 
 inson, Kingman, Mellen (2) (this name suggests 
 the frequent remark that he, by common consent 
 ycleped "Jim,"^ has been in the House so long 
 that the memory of man runneth not to the con- 
 
 I James H. Mellen, Worcester, thirteen times elected to the House. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 13 
 
 trary. Confirmation of this statement is found in 
 the appearance of his name in 1798, though in 
 those days they called him James, and he lived 
 in Ilolliston), Mitchell, ^N^orton, Parker, Perkins, 
 Phelps, Putnam, Rice, Richardson, Rowe,^ Rus- 
 sell, Sargent, Smith (2), Snow, Stone, Strong, 
 Thacher, Thurston, Turner, White (2), and 
 Wood. One of the first acts of the House, thus 
 assembled, was to vote the front seats to the 
 Boston members, — a distinction of Avhich the 
 successors of those same members have always 
 thought themselves worthy though they have not 
 in every case secured what they wished. Very 
 likely this courtesy was extended on account of 
 the gift by Boston of the site of the State House. 
 Owing to the season of the year, it will not 
 seem especially strange that on the first day (Jan- 
 uary 10), in the old State House, it was voted 
 to expend $150 for the purchase of fuel. The 
 firejolaces of those days, though healthful, were 
 
 ' By members of the same family tliis name is spelled both with and without 
 the w. John Rowe of Gloucester is here referred to. He was for nine years a 
 member of the House from that place, and one year from Essex County in the 
 Senate. He later removed to Milton, where lie had inherited at least a portion 
 of the property of his uncle, that John Rowe of Boston at whose instance in 1784 
 the figure of the codfish was suspended in the Representatives' Chamber of the 
 Old State House. 
 
14 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 fearfully voracious. But the chamber now first 
 occupied had a somewhat different appearance 
 from that which we know. There were no north 
 and south galleries, and no addition on the north 
 side; so those gentlemen, as they took their seats, 
 had a clear outlook through the north windows to 
 Bunker Hill, whose history they knew by heart, 
 and doubtless many a man could have told of 
 Putnam and Prescott and the events of that im- 
 mortal 17th of June. There was really no reason 
 why they should not look away to Bunker Hill, 
 for there were very few buildings to shut out the 
 view. Towards the west, and close at hand, they 
 must have noted the column on the highest part 
 of Beacon Hill, which Avas not only a tribute to 
 the talent and patriotism of Bulfinch the con- 
 structor, ^ but a fitting memorial to the heroism of 
 the men of the Revolution, of whom they were a 
 portion, and towards the history, written on the 
 tower's tablets, they had contributed no inconsid- 
 erable part. It was, too, the very hill on Avhich 
 had stood the beacon for a hundred and fifty 
 
 1 On his return from Europe, in 178G, Mr. Bulfinch, impressed with the 
 desirableness of some memorial of Revolutionary valor antl sacrifices, solicited 
 the funds for this monument, which he designed, and whose construction in 1790 
 he superintended. It was taken down in 1811. 
 

 Born Aug. 8, 1763; died April 15, 1844. 
 Architect. Member of Building Commission. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 15 
 
 years, ever a hateful sight to tyrants. The figure 
 of the eagle, which, since 1850, has hung over 
 the Speaker's head, then surmounted Bulfinch's 
 tower, and the tablets on the walls of the corri- 
 dor south of Doric Hall were attached to its base. 
 After the manner of their British ancestors, these 
 men sat with covered heads, a custom that pre- 
 vailed till well along into the thirties.^ 
 
 In those days there was little dallying over 
 what might be considered liberty of thought, for 
 every man had been obliged to subscribe to the 
 following oath : " I, A. B , do declare that I 
 believe the Christian religion and have firm per- 
 suasion of its truth." The fact, too, that he 
 was there, was evidence that he was possessed 
 of a freehold yielding an annual income of three 
 pounds, or was possessed of property to the value 
 of fifty pounds. In addition to the foregoing 
 oath, all had to renounce all allegiance to the king 
 or queen of Great Britain and to every other 
 
 » Jan. 6, 1838, George W. Warren of Charlestown introduced an order 
 instructing the committee on Rules to inquire into the expediency of requir- 
 ing members to sit with uncovered heads. The order was negatived, but its 
 introduction indicates the trend of custom. Hats gradually disappeared dur- 
 ing the sittings, though the Hon. John I. Baker says many members wore 
 them in 1840, possibly out of sympathy with the Friends or Quaker members, 
 who carried into the Legislature the habits of their daily lives. 
 
16 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 foreign power whatever : " And that no foreign 
 prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or 
 ought to have any jurisdiction, superiority, pre- 
 eminence, authority, dispensing or other power in 
 any matter, civil, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within 
 this Commonwealth, except the power which is or 
 may be vested by their Constitution in the Con- 
 o:ress of the United States. And I do further tes- 
 tify and declare that no man or body of men hath, 
 or can have, any right to absolve or discharge 
 me from the obligation of this oath, declaration 
 or affirmation," etc. Having fought a good fight, 
 those people were not disposed to put their per- 
 sons in chancery, at least of their own volition. 
 Several days after, or the 16th, the House re- 
 sponded to Governor Sumner's address, saying : — 
 
 May it please your Excellency : — The House 
 of Representatives have received your Excellency 
 with great pleasure in the new and elegant build- 
 ing erected for the better accommodation of the 
 several branches of government. 
 
 In this splendid specimen of the taste and judg- 
 ment of the agents who planned and superin- 
 tended, and in the ability of the artificers who 
 completed its structure, we are happy to find the 
 public confidence completely justified. Long may 
 it continue an ornament to the capital, Avhose 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFllED S. HOE. 17 
 
 inhabitants generonsly gave the situation on 
 which it is erected, and a monument of the pub- 
 lic spirit of the people of Massachusetts, sacred 
 to the purposes to which it has been devoted. 
 
 Thus was inaugurated the ninety-seven years' 
 occupancy of this hall. The story of this period, 
 told in full, fills whole alcoves of the State lil)rary. 
 In brief, we have the resultant in the volume of 
 statutes. More than sixteen thousand difierent 
 men have here acted their ])arts, long or short. 
 Of course the large majority came for a year only, 
 and thereafter dated all events from the year " I 
 was in the House." While aftairs were directed 
 by the few, it was ever a laudable ambition to hold 
 a seat in this chamber. The Legislature of Mas- 
 sachusetts is the oldest continuous leo'islative 
 body in America, and certainly no other one holds 
 a higher rank in attainments and general worth. 
 " The member from Cranberry Centre " has long 
 been the butt of wit and satire; but take him for 
 all in all, he is a type of whom the world may well 
 be proud. Here were begun the careers that led 
 through the highest honors in the gift of the State 
 and nation. This space is an arena in Avhicli 
 many a gladiator has given proof of his metal. 
 
18 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 Through this chamber passed every Governor 
 after 1798, save nine. Of these, two had been 
 members of the Senate, and two, Morton and 
 Emory Washburn, came hither long after they 
 had doffed the robes of executive office, the latter 
 appearing in his old age to be the dean of the 
 House and to die while a member. So then, 
 of the whole thirty-one individuals holding the 
 highest office in the State, only John Davis, 
 Edward Everett, George N. Briggs, Alexander 
 H. Rice and "William E. Kussell gained their 
 places save through some service in the Legis- 
 lature. "With our lieutenant-governors the case 
 is similar. There have been thirty-two of these 
 officers, and only Elisha Huntington and John 
 Nesmith failed to see some time in one or both 
 of the branches of the Legislature. Five, viz., 
 Phillips, Goodrich, Weston, Ames and Haile, 
 were in the Senate only, while Plunkett, Brown 
 and Trask came back after their higher honors 
 to wrestle here. Since 1798 thirty-two men have 
 been United States Senators from this State, and 
 of these only Pickering, Davis, Everett and Sum- 
 ner were in neither body; John Quincy Adams, 
 Prentiss Mellen and Samuel Dexter were in the 
 
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 Roger 'Wolcott. 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor, 1893 — • 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 19 
 
 Senate; the other twenty-six were, more or less, 
 in the House and in the Senate also. The same 
 rule applies to the Representatives in Congress 
 from Massachusetts. Of the present thirteen 
 members, only Wright, Apsley, Everett, Draper 
 and Randall have not been in the House; the 
 latter has served iu the Senate. The importance 
 of a position here may be gathered from the fact 
 that in foruier times it was not unusual for the 
 same man to be nomiuated and elected to both 
 bodies, in which case he had his choice of places. 
 So experienced and wily a manager and statesman 
 as Elbridge Gerry never failed to choose the nom- 
 inally lower House, seeing in it a broader field for 
 talent and energy. How others, outside of our 
 numbers, have regarded this body we may learn in 
 part from the language of that long-time clerk of 
 the Senate, Stephen ]N'. Gifford, when his friends 
 were giving him his famous complimentary dinner 
 in 1882: " Who has made Massachusetts the best 
 Commonwealth on the face of God's earth but the 
 Legislature of Massachusetts." That most courtly 
 of gentlemen and affable of officers, Sergeant-at- 
 Arms Benjamin Stevens, once became as near 
 being excited as he was ever known to be over an 
 
20 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 indication that a certain governor was endeavor- 
 ing to inflnence legislation. Raising his hands in 
 deprecation, he exclaimed, " The idea of any gov- 
 ernor attempting to influence the highest power in 
 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ! " 
 
 For many years, or till 1858, the numbers con- 
 stituting this body were variable. From 1780 
 to 1837, the basis of representation was as 
 follows: Every corj^orate town having one hun- 
 dred and fifty ratable polls was entitled to one 
 Kepresentative ; those having three hundred and 
 seventy-five could have two Kepresentatives, six 
 hundred ratable polls could have three, and so on, 
 one additional Kepresentative for every two hun- 
 dred and twenty-five additional qualified voters, 
 provided that every town, then incorporated, 
 though it might not have the requisite number 
 of polls, should not be deprived of representation, 
 but no town could thereafter be incorporated 
 with less than the one hundred and fifty qualified 
 voters with the privilege of representation. The 
 General Court had power to fine a town if it 
 failed to avail itself of this electoral privilege. 
 The system that went into operation in 1837 was, 
 if possible, more cumbersome than that which it 
 
Benjamin Stevens. 
 
 Born April i6, 1790; died Feb. 11, 1865. 
 Sergeant-at-Arms, 1835 — 1859. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. UOK. 21 
 
 displaced. Three hundred ratable polls became 
 the basis for one Representative; any city or 
 town having four hundred and fifty additional 
 voters could have an additional Representative. 
 Where the town had less than the requisite three 
 hundred, the number of polls at the last preceding 
 decennial census was multiplied by ten and the 
 product divided by three hundred, and the quo- 
 tient indicated the number of times within ten 
 years that the town might elect one Representa- 
 tive. The same plan prevailed with the excess 
 above the required number in cities and towns 
 already entitled to one Representative, with this 
 difference, that here the product of excess multi- 
 plied by ten was to be divided by four hundred 
 and fifty. The result, to the Solons who devised 
 this scheme, must have been suriDrising, for they 
 had set out to reduce the numbers of their House, 
 in 1837, consisting of six hundred and thirty-five 
 members. It had been evident that something 
 must be done, for a House so numerous, became, 
 surely, too popular a branch. The next year, 
 under the new rule, the number dropped to four 
 hundred and eighty, but in 1839 and 1840 it went 
 up to five hundred and twenty-one. Accordingly 
 
22 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 a new plan was again devised, and now the basis 
 of representation is to be twelve hundred inhabi- 
 tants, quite a step upward, and twenty-four hun- 
 dred is the mean advancing number to increase 
 the representation. Where there are less than 
 twelve hundred people the town may elect one 
 Representative as many times in every ten years 
 as one hundred and sixty is contained times in the 
 number of inhabitants, and such towns may elect a 
 Representative for the year in which the valuation 
 of estates within the Commonwealth is settled. 
 At this time comes the beginning of the forma- 
 tion of legislative districts from adjoining towns, 
 with all the privileges with reference to rejDre- 
 sentation accorded to a town having the same 
 number of inhabitants. To provide for the inevi- 
 table increase of inhabitants, it was further or- 
 dained that whenever the population of the State 
 should reach seven hundred and fifty thousand, 
 the number that should entitle a town to a Rep- 
 resentative, the mean increasing number which 
 should entitle a town to more than one, and also 
 the number by which the representation of towns 
 not entitled to a Representative every year is to 
 be divided shall be increased, respectively, by one- 
 
George v. L. Meyer. 
 
 Speaker, 1894 — 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 23 
 
 tenth of the numbers above mentioned. When- 
 ever seventy thousand i)eople are added to the 
 population, one-tenth shall again be added, as 
 before. As all the members of the Governor's 
 Council during these years had not had the benefit 
 of full college courses in mathematics, the wonder 
 constantly grows that at each recurring ten years 
 there was not a marked addition to the inmates in 
 the various State lunatic asylums. However, the 
 people worried along with their variable numbers 
 in their popular branch till they hit upon the only 
 feasible solution of their problem, viz., a definite, 
 constant number, which they decided should be 
 two hundred and forty. This amendment went 
 into eifect in 1858, and continues to date. The 
 property qualification went out in the amendment 
 of 1840. The peculiar oaths prescribed by the 
 Constitution ceased with the ratification of the 
 Constitutional Convention of 1820. 
 
 The fathers did not vote themselves magnificent 
 salaries. The very first session in this chamber 
 rated the services of the public servants at two 
 dollars per day, and by Constitution they were 
 entitled to mileage, which they rated at two dol- 
 lars for every ten miles. This compensation con- 
 
24 THE OLD RErilESENTATIVES' HALI,. 
 
 tinned for nearly or quite fifty years. Indeed, 
 mentioning- this subject, our venerable friend, 
 John I. Baker of Beverly, says that in 1840, his 
 first year, he boarded at the Pemberton House on 
 the site of the present Howard Athenaeum, and, 
 though he was in the Legislature when more 
 liberal salaries were allowed, that Avas the only 
 year Avhen he saw a margin in his favor. 
 
 There were subsequent rises, till we come to 
 the pay of to-day, small when compared with the 
 fifteen hundred dollars paid by 'New York, yet 
 making, with the two dollars per mile mileage, a 
 very large aggregate. The forbidding of railroad 
 passes to officials of the State was an act of the 
 Legislature of 1892.^ In 1832 small clothes dis- 
 appeared, three members then weai-ing such in- 
 
 1 Feb. 28, 1851, it was voted to permit the drawing of the sum of $50 per 
 month, provided the pay due amounted to that sum. Feb. 1, 1855, tlie pay was 
 raised to $3 per day, and the possible monthly drawing was made S75. Jan. 30, 
 1858, annual compensation was placed at $300. The mileage of $1 for every five 
 miles was payable the first day of the session ; on the first day of each month 
 thereafter members could draw $2 per day, and on the final day all arrears 
 May 14, 1864, the legislators voted themselves an additional $100, and passed the 
 act over the governor's veto. It was for that year only. June 22, 1870, compen- 
 sation was set at $5 per day. April 14, 1871, pay was fixed at $750 a year. In 
 1872 the drawing of $100 per month was permitted. Feb. 29, 187C, the salary 
 went back to $650 per annum. Feb. 28, 1879, pay reduced to $500. Jan. 29, 
 1885, pay raised to $650. June 30, 1886, compensation placed at its present 
 figure, viz., $750. 
 
Edward A. McLaughlin. 
 
 Clerk, 1883 — 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 25 
 
 teguments, one of whom being Maj. Thomas 
 Melville of Boston tea party fame, and who is 
 also supposed to have been the last American to 
 wear the cocked hat. Between small clothes and 
 the oldest living representative, or the old and the 
 new, there is no break. 
 
 Sessions have varied much in length, though 
 in later years few have gone nnder one hundred 
 and fifty days. The year 1798 beheld the law 
 makers of Massachusetts in this building eighty- 
 three days. There have been shorter terms, and 
 of course many that were longer. The longest 
 session was in General Butler's year, and it 
 dragged along through two hundred and six 
 weary days. The closing chapter in the book 
 of this chamber had one hundred and eighty 
 pages. We started in to make a record of 
 brevity, but our i)rogress was halted, para- 
 doxically, it would seem, by rapid transit. 
 
 Few Massachusetts people of middle life have 
 not heard of the wonders of 'lection day. Then 
 the Commonwealth put on her best and saw the 
 Governor inaugurated. All this was on the last 
 Wednesday in May. The legislative year began 
 then, the members having been elected in that 
 
26 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 month, with at least ten days intervening. The 
 summer session was, however, a brief one, seldom 
 lasting a month. In January they came together 
 again for their protracted stay, extending occa- 
 sionally well along towards the dandelion season. 
 With the proverbial conservatism of the English 
 race, people who are marvels of inertia, whether 
 of motion or rest, still seen in the retention of 
 town meeting in the month of March or April, 
 simply because the year began in March when the 
 earlier towns were formed, our State held on to 
 the old custom till 1832, when it was thought de- 
 sirable to make the political year conform to that 
 of the calendar. Gov. Levi Lincoln had the priv- 
 ilege of promulgating the 10th amendment in 1831, 
 June 15, and he was the first Governor to be in- 
 augurated in the January following; but for fifty 
 years there were not wanting those who bewailed 
 the loss of 'lection day. 
 
 It has been said that of the making of many 
 books there is no end; and of the truth of the 
 statement there would be no doubt were all of us 
 to see the mass of printed matter that, first and 
 last, the Massachusetts Legislature has been re- 
 sponsible for. And the books that have l)een pre- 
 
^^.i» 
 
 NATHANIEL P. BANKS, Jr. 
 
 Born Jan. 30, 1816; died Sept. i, 1894- 
 Speaker, 1851 — 1852. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 27 
 
 served are nearly legion. Then, too, the volumes 
 grow in size. The first product of laws from this 
 Capitol numbered eighty-one folio pages, the last, 
 that of 1894, fills a royal octavo of seven hundred 
 and fifty-six pages. The first Blue Book or Acts 
 and Resolves came in 1839, bound in blue, doubt- 
 less because the rules and orders had been thus 
 colored for years. 
 
 In the earlier days and even down to a quite 
 recent period members did not think it necessary 
 to take a Saturday recess. Jan. 9, 1877, John D. 
 Washburn of Worcester introduced an order, to 
 the effect that when the House adjourn on Friday 
 it be to meet on the following Monday at two 
 o'clock, imtil otherwise ordered. Revolutions 
 seklom move backward, and there have been 
 very few Saturday sessions since. 
 
 The legislator who to-day rides comfortably a 
 hundred or more miles to and from the daily ses- 
 sions of the General Court has little notion of the 
 troubles of those who came hither a century since 
 or even in much later days. Then the country 
 member came to stay till the work was done, and 
 he rather liked to labor Saturdays, for it hastened 
 the day of his return. The hills of Berkshire 
 
28 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 were three clays away, and Washington County, 
 Maine, much farther. The horse that he may 
 have ridden to town was pining for the rich 
 pastures of the home fields, and homesickness 
 was not an unknown complaint to the Solon him- 
 self. It is said that some of these far-away Repre- 
 sentatives used to put their steeds out to pasture 
 in the neighboring towns, and some even disputed 
 the grassy slopes of the Common with the regular 
 dwellers in Boston. It is an interesting item that, 
 Avhen the Messenger's house at 46 Hancock Street 
 was built, provision was also made for the horses 
 of the members who rode or drove in from the 
 nearer towns. There were spaces for between 
 thirty and forty beasts, and the doors were opened 
 in the morning by an employee of the Messenger, 
 and by him closed at night. The Solons were 
 their own hostlers, as well as Jehus. After a 
 time the State sold the land thus employed to 
 the city of Boston, and it was long covered by 
 the reservoir. Later the State bought it back, 
 and our new Kepresentatives' Hall is not far 
 from covering the land where our predecessors 
 groomed and fed their steeds with grain and fod- 
 der brought by them from their respective homes. 
 
Jacob Kuhn. 
 
 Born Nov. 25, 1763; died Sept. 22, 1835. 
 Messenger, 1786 — 1835. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 29 
 
 There have been but five men ^ who as mes- 
 senger or sergeant-at-arms have had the care of 
 this building. Jacob Kuhn, wlio came liere Avith 
 the first comers, was for more tlian fifty years 
 connected w^ith tlie Legislature. Small in stature, 
 yet he Avas the soul of graciousness, and was all 
 that faithfulness implies. The first sergeant-at- 
 arms was Benjamin Stevens. A member of this 
 body, he resigned to take the office, which he held 
 for twenty-five years. No one knew his duty 
 
 ' Jacob Kuhn, to 1835 ; Benjamin Stevens, Boston, 1835-59 ; John Morissey, 
 Plymouth, 1859-74; Orcb F. Mitcliell, Boston, 1874-85; John G. B. Adams, 
 Lynn, 1886- . Jacob Kuhn, born Nov. 25, 1763, in Boston, died there in the 
 messenger's house, on the reservoir site, Sept. 22, 1835. His fatlier was Joim 
 George Kuhn, born in Koniijsberg, East Prussia, Aug. 1, 1740, wlio came to 
 America in 1754, and was for Tuany years a scliool-master in Boston. He died 
 Nov. 20, 1822. Jacob's grandfather was Jacob, a native of Gochsheim, Wiir- 
 temberg, wlio came to this country in 1754 and, witli his eldest son, was drowned, 
 Nov. 28, 1763, at tlie mouth of tlie Kennebec River, at a phice since Ivuown as 
 Kuhn's Point. In 1781, Jacob Kuhn became assistant messenger, and in 1786 
 was advanced to full charge, dying in office in 1835. Of him his son said, " He 
 was strictly temperate, inflexibly honest, unbending in duty, kind, generous, 
 pious and remarkably patient under trials, of which he had a full share." At 
 his death the Legislature voted to have his funeral puljlic in the Representatives' 
 chamber, but the family preferring, it was held privately at his late home, with 
 deputations from the Senate and House attending. He was buried in the family 
 tomb in the old Common Burial Ground. 
 
 Benjamin Stevens was born in the city of Boston ; was in the House of Rep- 
 resentatives in 1833, 1834 and 1835 ; in the last year he resigned to become the 
 successor of Messenger Jacob Kuhn, being the first to hold the office of Sergeant- 
 at-Arms. He was again elected to the House in 1862, and in 1863, durmg the 
 absence of Maj. John Morissey, who was serving a nine months' term as major 
 of the 3d Regiment, Mr. Stevens again performed the duties of Sergeant-at- 
 Arms. His body lies in Mt. Auburn. It was during Mr. Stevens' term of office 
 
30 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 better, and no one had a wider range of friends. 
 As an illustration of his tact, the story is told that 
 a certain gentleman of decayed fortunes had taken 
 up the habit of walking in Doric Hall. Day after 
 day he kept up his peregrinations, pausing only to 
 borrow a dollar of some impressionable country- 
 man. As the dollar was never paid back, and as 
 the purses of the members were none too long, 
 they complained to Mr. Stevens, who in his bland- 
 est manner requested the walker to take up his 
 
 that lie made Thomas J. Tucker a State House employee. The latter, now the 
 senior of all those having the Capitol in charge, was born in Boston, Dec. 21, 
 1831, was graduated from the Mayhew School, and, after a short experience in 
 business, became a messenger here, Jan. 1, 1856. He was made assistant door- 
 keeper in 1869, and door-keeper in 1875. 
 
 John Morissey was born in Boston, of Irish descent. He was a printer by 
 trade and as such worked in Nantucket, whence, in 1849, he was sent to the 
 House and again in 1857. In 1858 he represented the Island District in the 
 Senate. During the same year he removed to Plymouth, which place was his 
 home till his death. Coming into office during the administration of Governor 
 Banks, he served, excepting a term of active military service as major of the 
 3d Regiment, till long after the Civil War, during which struggle he was of 
 especial value to Governor Andrew. Returning to his home at the end of his 
 State House career, he became in 1877 treasurer of Plymouth County, and as 
 such continued to the time of his death. 
 
 Captain Mitchell enlisted early in the War of the Rebellion from the town of 
 Middleborough. As a captain in the 40th Regiment he lost an arm at Drury's 
 Bluff, May 16, 1864. He is now a resident of Boston. 
 
 Captain Adams served throughout the war in the 19th Regiment. He was 
 twice severely wounded at Gettysburg, on the second day. In 1864, June 22, 
 he was captured by the enemy before Petersburg, and was held a prisoner till 
 March 1, 1865. It will be noted that every Sergeant-at-Arms, save the first, was 
 a soldier during the Rebellion. 
 
John Morissey. 
 
 Sergeant-at-Arms, 1859 — 74. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFllKD S. ROE. 31 
 
 line of march in some new direction; whereupon 
 the reproved turned upon the officer and fiercely 
 replied, " Move on ! why, I own a part of this 
 building," " Sure enough, so you do," said Mr. 
 Stevens, " and when avc divide it you shall have 
 your share." So effectual was the rejoinder that 
 the part owner disappeared completely. Through 
 Morissey and Mitchell we come to Captain 
 Adams, and long may he be the last. 
 
 Whether or not service here is conducive to 
 longevity, it is certain that some members have at- 
 tained very old age. The senior surviving Rep- 
 resentative is Henry Mills, now of Binghamton, 
 !N^. Y., but in his legislative days from Millbury. 
 He served in the Houses of 1833-34. At last 
 accounts he was hale and hearty, and able to 
 write a particularly vigorous letter. Joshua T. 
 Everett of Westminster, though he represented 
 Princeton in this hall, survives, at eighty-eight 
 years, a fellow legislator with Mr. Mills in 1834. 
 Few of the men here to-day step off more nimbly 
 than does this Worcester County nonogenarian, 
 who, in N^ovember last, told me that on the next 
 morning he expected to walk over to his old home 
 in Princeton, nearly six miles distant. Of all 
 
32 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 those who have held places here, few if any, in 
 later years, exceed the term of service of John I. 
 Baker, long' known as the blue-eyed philosopher 
 of Beverly, and who, at the age of eighty-two, his 
 newly formed city, by a unanimous vote, makes 
 her first mayor, by such action honoring herself 
 no less than her aged citizen. As a member of 
 the Harbor and Land Commission he still renders 
 the State valuable service. His first year was 
 1840, his last 1884; and between them he sat 
 eighteen years in this chamber. 
 
 When he came hither, this room was unchanged 
 from the shape given it by the builders, with the 
 possible addition of balcony galleries on each side. 
 Then light came in at the north windows and from 
 the south; it streamed in through right-angled 
 spaces where is now the special gallery. The 
 two corners at the south had their fireplaces, as 
 of yore, and daily consumed great quantities of 
 wood. They admitted of good ventilation, but 
 real warmth was to be had only by heated discus- 
 sions, which we have reason to believe were not 
 often wanting. Here in the opposite corners were, 
 at a slight elevation, private boxes, where the 
 favored visitors might witness the contests in the 
 
Oreb F. Mitchell. 
 
 Sergeant-at-Arms, 1875 — 1885. 
 
Robert C. \Vinthrop. 
 
 Born May 12, 1809; died Nov. 16, 1894. 
 Speaker, 1838 — 1840. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 33 
 
 arena. Instead of the chairs known to us of a 
 later date, were fixed settees extending across the 
 hall, with certain passageways. The clerk's desk 
 Avas in front of that of the speaker, and the large 
 area in front was filled with movable settees for 
 the accommodation of members. The latter were 
 so numerous that they filled the entire floor, Ijoth 
 galleries, and, for their further convenience, bal- 
 conies had been constructed on each side, afford- 
 ing seats for sixteen men in each one. Mr. Baker 
 says that, as the names of Texas and Oregon were 
 often heard in those days, by some queer combi- 
 nation the west gallery was called Oregon; the 
 east, Texas; and so dignified a presiding officer as 
 Kobert C. Winthrop would address men in these 
 places as the member in Texas, or the other place, 
 as it happened. From the light afforded in the 
 evening by tallow dips, througli the period of gas 
 to the 2)resent system of electricity, the progress 
 has been marked and desirable. There was no 
 chandelier till the introduction of electricity. For 
 many years the House got along well enough with 
 only one clock, that facing the speaker; but it 
 remained for Representative Daniels of Oxford, 
 1877, who sat too flir back to derive any good 
 
34 THE OLD KEPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 from the clock, to introduce an order that a time- 
 piece be placed behind the speaker and in front 
 of the members, a proposition at which all laughed 
 and for which a majority voted, and then, Avhen 
 its convenience was discovered, wondered that no 
 one had thought of it before. In those days, 
 the entrances to this hall were near the fireplaces 
 towards the south, instead of being in the middle 
 of each side, as now. 
 
 The renovation and additions of 1853 very sen- 
 sibly changed the conditions here. The large 
 Bryant addition on the north closed the lower 
 windows on that side, but gave light through 
 higher ones, and at the same time provided excel- 
 lent places for the reporters, who before that had 
 been huddled down by the speaker's side. On the 
 south there was an extension under the balcony, 
 aflPording the much-used passageway and the gal- 
 lery above, the lower convenience, especially, being 
 one that the smokers of the Legislature could 
 hardly spare, though its very existence may have 
 given origin to the local name of " Murderers 
 Row," long applied to the last range of seats at 
 the south. Changes having been begun, subse- 
 
John G. B. Adams. 
 
 Sergeant-at-Arms, 1886 — 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 35 
 
 quent ones Avei-e eiFected the more easily; and 
 in 1866 a very complete overhauling was had, 
 in which the balconies disappeared, likewise the 
 fireplaces and the settees, heat being afforded by 
 a system of furnaces. Though Architect Wm. 
 Washburn Avas much criticised by the press and 
 people for what he did and for what he did not 
 do, he says, in his report, "The ventilation of the 
 Representatives' Hall is perhaps the most com- 
 plete success ever accomplished in this country," 
 — an opinion and statement which seem quite 
 amusing when placed side by side with the many 
 criticisms heard in recent years. 
 
 So much for the material changes. Men have 
 come and gone. They have here played their 
 brief parts and have been crowded off. Few 
 men have achieved political distinction in this 
 Commonwealth Avithout having been, at some 
 time, connected Avith this House. Daniel Web- 
 ster was a member in 1822, but he did not come 
 in till the second day, and had to be SAVorn by 
 himself. He was not a member of any commit- 
 tee, and the journal has his name only once, and 
 then as one of a special committee to report at the 
 
36 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 winter session a system of rules. I cannot find 
 that he ever reported.^ It should be stated, in the 
 matter of committees, that in the early days there 
 were only eleven joint standing ones, and of the 
 House there were eight. This was the case in 
 Webster's day. In 1835, John G. Whittier had 
 a seat here from Haverhill, and he was re-elected 
 in 1836, but illness prevented his taking his place. 
 The father of Senator Hoar, Samuel Hoar of 
 Concord, after his term in Congress was a mem- 
 ber, and was instrumental in saving the rights 
 and privileges of Harvard College. The Sena- 
 tor himself was here in 1852. ^N'oah Webster, 
 the famous maker of the dictionary, represented 
 Amherst for three years, when the century was 
 in its teens. 
 
 At the clerk's desk for twelve years, or from 
 1832 to 1813, sat Luther S. Cushing, whose 
 manual on parliamentary usage has been the 
 school-boy's Bible for more than fifty years. 
 As a gentleman has remarked, the Legislature 
 has had the man who made the dictionary and 
 
 1 In fairness to Mr. Webster, it should be stated that, having been elected 
 to Congress in the autumn of 1822, it is possible that he did not feel obligated 
 to give any of his subsequent time to the Legislature. 
 
Luther S. Gushing. 
 
 Born June 22, 1803; died June 22, 1856. 
 Clerk, 1832 — 1843. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALl'llED S. UOE. 
 
 the one who made the manual, so that there 
 seems to be lacking only the maker of the Bible. 
 Fifteen others ' link 1798 with 1883, when Edward 
 A. McLaughlin became our efficient clerk. 
 
 From Robbins to Meyer, forty-three men - have 
 occupied the speaker's chair. Of these, the long- 
 est consecutive holding in this chamber was by 
 William B. Calhoun of Springfield, seven years; 
 though Timothy Bigelow, representing Groton 
 
 1 In this number should be mentioned the names of William Schouler, 1853, 
 who was adjutant-general during the war period, and who wrote the standard 
 " History of Massachusetts in the Rebellion ; " "William S. Robinson, 1862-1872, 
 whose caustic pen as correspondent of the " Springfield Republican," while it 
 brought him fame, also made him hosts of enemies ; Charles H. Taylor, 1873, 
 long manager of the -'Boston Globe;" George A. Harden, 1874-1882, only a 
 year since retiring from the five years treasurership of the State. The first clerk 
 to serve here was Henry Warren, youngest son of Gen. James and Mercy Otis 
 Warren. He was born in riymouth, 1764, and died in that town, 1828. His 
 father had been speaker, 1787-1788, and his own service as clerk of the House 
 extended from 1792 to 1802. During Shays's Rebellion he served upon the staff 
 of Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln with the rank of major, a title by which he was 
 known in local circles. He was for manj- years collector of the port of Plym- 
 outh, and was the grandfather of Winslow Warren, at present collector of the 
 port of Boston. It was voted by the General Court to place in this book a picture 
 of Major Warren, but diligent search among his descendants fails to reveal any 
 trace of a portrait in existence. 
 
 2 The list is an honorable one, including the names of Harrison Gray Otis, 
 Joseph Story, Josiah Quincj', Levi Lincoln, Charles Hale, Alexander H. Bullock, 
 Harvey Jewell, John E. Sanford, John D. Long and John Q. A. Brackett. The 
 senior surviving speaker is Daniel C. Eddy, who, a Baptist clergyman of 
 Lowell, presided over the so-called Know Nothing House of 1855. He now 
 resitles in Brooklyn, N. Y. Two of our most distinguished speakers, Robert C. 
 Winthrop and Nathaniel P. Banks, Jr., became equally noted presiding officers 
 over the National House of Representatives, and both died in the fall of 1894. 
 
38 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 and Boston, twenty years in all, between 1790 and 
 1821, was at different periods speaker eleven years. 
 Famous men have been received in this hall. 
 What a royal welcome was extended in 1817 to 
 James Monroe, who, the president of the country, 
 had been a valiant soldier during the Revolution. 
 How the banquet in Doric Hall must have made 
 the arches ring with the plaudits of those who 
 greeted him! June 24, 1833, came Andrew Jack- 
 son, with his cabinet, including the subsequent 
 president, Martin Yan Buren; and, though it was 
 in the recess of the Legislature, there was no 
 lacking in the reception accorded to Old Hickory. 
 This time the party was refreshed in the Senate 
 chamber. John Tyler and his cabinet were here 
 in 1843, June 17. In 1847 came James Iv. Polk, 
 June 30, and with him a man to be elected to the 
 presidency in 1856, James Buchanan. Millard 
 Fillmore was here in 1848, October, the fall of 
 his vice-presidential canvass. Grant and his cab- 
 inet were greeted April 17, 1875. It was in 1867, 
 June 24, that Andrew Johnson and his party came 
 hither. Alexander H. Bullock was governor, and 
 in his elegant manner he welcomed the not over- 
 popular President, an act which a wit of the day 
 
REPRESENTATIVES- HALL- January. 1856. 
 
 (Looking South.) 
 
 CHARLES A. PHELPS, Speaker. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 39 
 
 called " wrestling back hold with all the gov- 
 ernor's principles;" but when he addressed Sec- 
 retary Seward there was no conflict of duty and 
 sentiment. To Mr. Seward the governor said, 
 "Massachusetts has repeatedly expressed to you 
 her love and admiration." To which the great 
 war secretary replied, beginning, " I derived my 
 first lesson in human rights from Massachusetts. 
 ... It was from the lips of John Quincy Adams 
 that those words came." The " Advertiser," com- 
 menting on this reception, said that the people 
 were courteous but not enthusiastic. 
 
 'Nov have our visitors been confined to national 
 officers. Black Hawk and Keokuk Avith their 
 tawny faces were here received Oct. 30, 1837, 
 and Black Hawk replied to the party Avho ad- 
 dressed him; March 20, 1868, came Kit Carson 
 with a band of Utes; and Davy Crockett^ w^as 
 
 1 In his " Tour to the North and Down East," Colonel Crockett says (pages 
 76, 77) : *' From the top of the State House I had a fine view of the city, and 
 was quite amused to see the representation of a large codfish hung up in the 
 House of Assembly, or General Court, as they call it, to remind them, either 
 that they depended a good deal on it for food, or made monej' by the fisheries. 
 This is quite natural to me, for at home I have at one end of my house the 
 antlers of a noble buck and the heavy paws of a bear. ... I return the officers 
 in the State House my thanks for their civility. I can't remember all their 
 names, and therefore I won't name any of them." This entry was for May 
 6, 1834, less than two years before he won death and immortality in defending 
 the Alamo. 
 
40 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 here May 6, 1834. Twice were honors paid to 
 Lafayette,^ and here were heard the eloquent 
 words of Kossuth.^ The Prince of Wales ^ has 
 reason to remember the appearance of this cham- 
 ber, as has also the Grand Duke Alexis;^ but 
 the line is endless.^ 
 
 " Except the Lord build the house they labor 
 in vain that build it." On the 4th of July, 1795, 
 
 > Oa the 26th of August, 1824, by a vote of the Legishiture, passed in 
 expectation of the hero's coming, Lafayette received the citizens of Massachu- 
 setts in Doric Hall. It is said that on this occasion the national standard for 
 the first time was displayed from the cupola. June 16, 1825, he was again 
 received in the Representative chamber. Gov. Levi Lincoln in the speaker's 
 chair. This was the day before the corner-stone laying at Bunker Hill, and 
 Webster's immortal speech. 
 
 2 Kossuth was received at the State House, April 27, 1852 ; and again, the 
 next day, passing under an arch bearing the inscription, " There is a com- 
 munity in mankind's destiny," he met both branches of the Legislature in the 
 Representative chamber, Governor Boutwell presiding, Henry Wilson being 
 president of the Senate and Nathaniel P. Banks, Jr., speaker of the House. 
 
 3 Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Oct. 18, 1860. 
 * Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, Dec. 8, 1871. 
 
 5 On the 10th of May, 1894, the Legislature greeted Frederick Douglass. 
 In a happy manner he responded, and referred to his first appearance in the 
 hall, more than fifty years before. In a letter bearing date Feb. 8, 1895, Mr. 
 Douglass said he could not give exact date, but was sure it was in 1842. Ref- 
 erence to the files of the " Liberator " brings out this statement for the even- 
 ing of Jan. 27, 1842 : " It was by far the largest annual meeting ever held by 
 the society. [The Massachusetts Anti-slavery.] Every spot in the hall was 
 densely filled, and apparently all present not members were friends." Among 
 the speakers was "Frederick Douglass, a fugitive from slavery." The fore- 
 going refers to the adjourned meeting from Faneuil Hall to this chamber, leave 
 having been cranted by the House. 
 
'William S. Robinson. 
 
 Born Dec. 7, 1818 ; died March 11, 1876. 
 Clerk, 1862 — 1872. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFllED S. ROE. 41 
 
 the voice of Peter Thatcher was heard invoking 
 the Divine blessing on the enterprise of a new 
 State House, then advanced to the corner-stone 
 hiying. From the old State House, the members 
 of the government with the selectmen of Boston 
 and Masonic bodies had marched to the Old 
 South Church, and there had heard an address 
 by George Blake, thence through Milk Street 
 and Liberty Square they had returned to State 
 and so to the Old State House again, whence, 
 under the escort of the Independent Fusileers, 
 they had proceeded along Main Street to Winter 
 and so to and across the Common to Governor 
 Hancock's Pasture, where fifteen Avhite horses, 
 representing the States of the Union, had drawn 
 the corner-stone. It is said that where are now 
 Hancock, Myrtle and Mt. Vernon streets, there 
 was only a dreary, dismal waste, and there were 
 but three decent houses. Boston had but twenty- 
 five thousand inhabitants, all told, and Massa- 
 chusetts, Maine included, numbered only three 
 hundred and seventy-five thousand. But their 
 new enterprise was well thought out, and the 
 man who was theii governor was one of the most 
 
4-2 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 noted figures in the national annals; and these 
 were the words of Samuel Adams, as with Paul 
 Kevere he lays the stone: — 
 
 Fellow Citizens : — The Representatives of 
 the people, in General Court assembled, did sol- 
 emnly resolve that an edifice be erected upon this 
 spot of ground for the purpose of holding the 
 public councils of the Commonwealth of Massa- 
 chusetts. By the request of their agents and 
 conunissioners I do now lay the corner-stone. 
 
 May the superstructure be raised even to the 
 top stone without any untoward accident, and 
 remain permanent as the everlasting mountains. 
 May the principles of our excellent Constitution, 
 founded in nature and in the rights of man, be 
 ably defended here. And may the same princi- 
 ples be deeply engraven on the hearts of all citi- 
 zens, and there be fixed unimpaired and in full 
 vigor till time shall be no more. 
 
 It is interesting to note that the year which 
 marked the first move towards a new State House 
 was the one in which by legislative enactment the 
 American dollar supplanted the British pound, 
 though the appropriation for the new edifice was 
 in the old style. This year also a petition was 
 presented asking for the setting off of the district 
 of Maine as an independent State, — a measure 
 
Edward Hutchinson Robbins. 
 
 Born Feb. 19, 1758; died Dec. 29, 1829. 
 Speaker, 1793 — 1802. Member of Building Commission. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 43 
 
 that did not succeed till 1820. How nearly two 
 hundred men could find room in the old Repre- 
 sentatives' Hall on State Street is a never-failinof 
 source of wonder to all who visit that ancient 
 and venerated room. With the ti-oubles incident 
 to the Revolution well in the background the 
 legislators, with a purpose of bettering their con- 
 dition, acted as follows : — 
 
 RESOLVE FOR BUILDING A NEW STATE HOUSE. 
 February 16, 1795. 
 
 Besolved, That Edward H. Robbins, Esq., 
 Thomas Dawes, Esq., and Mr. Charles Bulfinch, 
 be and they are hereby appointed agents on the 
 part of the Commonwealth; and they, or the major 
 part of them, are hereby fully authorized and 
 empowered to erect, l)uikl and finish a new State 
 House for the accommodation of all the legislative 
 and executive branches of government, on a spot 
 of ground in Boston commonly called the Gov- 
 ernor's Pasture, containing about two acres, more 
 or less, adjoining the late Governor Hancock's 
 garden, and belonging to the heirs of said Gov- 
 ernor Hancock: j^^'ovided, the town of Boston will, 
 at their expense, purchase and cause the same to 
 be conveyed in fee-simple to the Commonwealth; 
 that appearing the most preferable spot for that 
 purpose, on such plan and model as said agents, 
 
44: THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 with the approbation of the committee hereinafter 
 named, or the major part of them, shall adopt. 
 
 And be it further Resolved, That the sum of 
 eight thousand pounds be, and the same hereby 
 is granted, to be paid out of the treasury of the 
 Commonwealth to said agents by warrant from the 
 Governor, by and with the advice of Council, for 
 the purpose aforesaid; they to be accountable to 
 the Commonwealth for the same, on the settlement 
 of their accounts for the expenditures on said 
 building, or at any other time when called upon 
 by the General Court. 
 
 The gentlemen to whom was intrusted the task 
 of designing and building executed their work 
 from beginning to end Avith not a whisper of 
 reproach; and, in passing, a glance at these old- 
 time worthies is not out of place. EdAvard 
 Hutchinson Robbins of Milton was a man whose 
 word for nearly or quite half a century was law 
 to all his fellow townsmen. From attaining his 
 majority till his death there was little time Avhen 
 he was not filling some position of public trust. 
 IN'ine years in all, or four in the old and five in 
 this chamber, he was speaker; from 1802 to 1806 
 he was lieutenant-governor; thus gaining the title 
 by Avhich most Milton people kncAv him. From 
 his estate in the town of Calais, Me., near Lake 
 
Thomas Dawes. 
 
 Born Aug. 5, 1731 ; died Jan. 2, 1809. 
 Member of Building Commission. 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 45 
 
 West Maguerrawoclv, pretty close to the king's 
 dominions, were obtained the large timbers that 
 became the columns in front and rear of the new 
 State House and in Doric Hall. It is worthy 
 of note that we j^ass on, almost a hundred years, 
 from Bobbins the builder to that other Robbins ^ 
 who, as last year's chairman of the committee on 
 the State House, waged here his battle royal for 
 its preservation. 
 
 Thomas Dawes had experienced the full meas- 
 ure of British hate; his house had been sacked 
 during the foreign occupancy of Boston, and by 
 the enemy he was called "Jonathan Smoothins- 
 Plane." He had been a member of the conven- 
 tion of 1780, but his addition to this commission 
 was on account of his practical experience as a 
 builder. In 1800, owing to the deaths of Gov- 
 ernor Sumner and Lieutenant-Governor Gill, Mr. 
 Dawes, then president of the council, became 
 acting governor. He was made a deacon in 
 the Old South Church in 1786, and so contin- 
 ued till his death in 1809. His body lies in 
 King's Chapel burying ground. 
 
 ' Royal Robbins, member of the House of Representatives from the Eleventh 
 Suffolk District, 1893-1894. 
 
46 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 As for Charles Bulfinch, in the language of 
 that famous epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren, 
 who designed St. Paul's Church, " If you seek 
 his monument, look around." 
 
 Such were the men Avho reared these walls, 
 and in the intervening years no words of criti- 
 cism have been uttered over their work. They 
 builded for the century, and now at its end we 
 look back along the way, passing in review some 
 of the scenes of which this chamber was the 
 theatre. Every Massachusetts signer of the Dec- 
 laration of Independence save Hancock must have 
 seen this interior; some of the events here wit- 
 nessed were thrilling in their interest. Robert 
 Treat Paine was a member of the council in 
 1804, and so repeatedly entered here. Elbridge 
 Gerry, as governor in 1810-1812, took his oath 
 of office in this room. While we may have no 
 record of Samuel Adams in the chamber itself, 
 we well know his early part in building, and 
 we know that at the State House, Oct. 6, 1803, 
 was formed the procession which escorted his re- 
 mains to their final resting place in the Granary 
 Burial Ground. Most impressive of all was when, 
 bowed with his four-score and five years, John 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 47 
 
 Adams came hither to take his seat as a member 
 of the Constitutional Convention of 1820. Con- 
 scions of his infirmities, he had decKned the hiirh 
 honor of presiding officer to which the delegates 
 had elected him, but to a man those delegates 
 of seventy-five years ago rose and witli uncov- 
 ered heads saluted the foremost citizen of Mas- 
 sachusetts as he was escorted to his permanent 
 seat at the right of the president. Though he 
 was not a frequent speaker in that body, yet his 
 voice and vote are on record, and they make a 
 part of the chain linking us with that past of 
 which the Adamses, Hancock, Otis and Revere 
 were so considerable a part. Still closer binding 
 us to the history that we venerate, in this room, 
 Feb. 8, 1800, Fisher Ames gave his eulogy on 
 Washington, a task for which he was peculiarly 
 well fitted, having given the address to Congress 
 when Washington retired from the presidency. 
 And in later days there were giants who wrestled 
 here. Daniel Webster had been a citizen of this 
 Commonwealth only four years when he was sent, 
 in 1820, to assist in revising the Constitution. 
 Hei-e, as everywhere, his voice was potent, and 
 in the light of the events of to-day it is a i)leas- 
 
48 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 lire to find that he uttered this protest against 
 vast accumulations of wealth : " The history of 
 other nations may teach us how favorable to pub- 
 lic liberty is the division of the soil into small 
 freeholds; and a system of laws of which the 
 tendency is without violence or injustice to pro- 
 duce and to preserve a degree of equality of 
 property. . . . The freest government, if it could 
 exist, would not long be acceptable if the ten- 
 dency of the laws were to create a rapid accumu- 
 lation of property in a few hands and to render 
 the great mass of the population dependent and 
 penniless." In 1888, from the lith to the 19th 
 of July, Ex-President Hayes presided in this 
 hall, with all the grace so characteristic of him, 
 over the sessions of the Prison Congress, and in 
 his address uttered words which should link his 
 name with those of John Howard and Dorothea 
 Dix: "But the citizen cannot be loyal to his 
 country and faithful to her true significance if he 
 neglects the children of misfortune, of poverty, of 
 weakness and of wickedness, who are, or who are 
 in danger of being, enrolled in the ranks of crime. 
 From the earliest dawn of human life it has been 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. -49 
 
 an irrepealable condition of its existence that all 
 men are indeed their brothers' keepers." 
 
 The year 1858 beheld here one of the most 
 remarkable events in oin- history. Prompted by 
 Garrison, Phillips and others of the anti-slavery 
 leaders, the Legislature projected the removal 
 of Edward Greeley Loring, judge of probate in 
 Suffolk County, for alleged malfeasance in the 
 rendition of Anthony Burns. Caleb Cushing, 
 dividing the leadership of the Massachusetts bar 
 with Rufus Choate, defended the accused in a 
 manner worthy of his ex2:)erience and name. It 
 was the first and only year of John A. Andrew 
 in the Legislature. A confessed abolitionist, his 
 reputation up to that time was purely local, but 
 so determined, so masterly was his action that 
 the obnoxious officer was removed, and the work 
 of the Representative made him the successor of 
 N^athaniel P. Banks, Jr., in the gubernatorial chair.^ 
 
 It was near the close of the session of 1885 
 that the very depths were stirred over the Boston 
 
 ' Among those who struggled with Andrew for what he considered good 
 government was Geo. D. Wells, a young law.ver from Greenfield, who fell Oct. 
 13, 1864, colonel of the Thirty-fourth Massachusetts, at Stickney Farm, Va., 
 a prelude to the battle of Cedar Creek. Many others who here helped make 
 laws, later went forth to defend them. 
 
50 THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 police bill. Yictors and vanquished fought long 
 and well. All the devices possible to skilled 
 l^arliamentarians had only put oflf the inevitable 
 end. Confusion reigned almost supreme. The 
 speaker had threatened to name recalcitrant mem- 
 bers; they in turn had invoked direst vengeance 
 on any officer who should lay violent hands upon 
 them. Gavels, many, were broken in a vain effort 
 to maintain order, and as a last resort a carpen- 
 ter's hammer had been secured, to be used should 
 the last gavel be destroyed. But Speaker J. Q. A. 
 Brackett held firmly to his post, and with the vote 
 and the disappearance of the beaten came peace 
 and order. 
 
 In this address I have in the main confined 
 myself to this room, but were we to go beyond 
 its bounds, matters of interest would be found on 
 every hand.^ In Doric Hall, just beneath us, was 
 
 1 " If the dome were gilded, it is said by those of artistic and travel-improved 
 taste, it would equal in l)eauty any public building in Europe. The cost of such 
 improvement would be $5,500. It would last witliout protection ten years, and 
 might be made to stand for a longer term. No other equivalent improvement of 
 the Capitol could be effected by so slight an expense." (Governor Banks's 
 valedictory, 1861.) 
 
 The resolve under which the gilding was first done bears date of June 25, 1874. 
 For painting the outside of the State House and for gilding the dome Cyrus T. 
 Clark was paid $8,209.94. The dome was re-gilded in 1888, at a cost of $4,758.79; 
 the first gilding outlasting the governor's estimate by four years. 
 
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ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 51 
 
 organized the first volunteer company in the war 
 of the rebellion, and doorkeeper John Kinnear, 
 over there, was a member. How many thousands 
 of our citizens climbed the steps leading to the 
 hall to look finally on the faces of Sumner and 
 Wilson when their remains there lay in state? 
 How many flags were in that space or in front 
 of the capitol intrusted to the care and keeping 
 of departing regiments, and on their return this 
 same hall became their final resting place? Rep- 
 resentatives from every war waged by the United 
 States have served in this room, and in the last 
 House there were thirty-four veterans of the latest 
 strife. In the present body there are thirty-six. 
 
 What is to be the fate of this building and of 
 this room? There are those who exclaim, "Raze 
 it, raze it ! " but out from the hearts of the masses 
 of our citizens comes the cry, " Save it, save it ! " 
 All sorts of imaginary ills are found in and about 
 these walls, evils not dreamed of till their destruc- 
 tion was sought. The same iconoclastic spirit, 
 extant a thousand years ago, would have found 
 the pyramids of Egypt not fireproof and Pompey's 
 pillar out of plumb. Destroying them, there had 
 been no forty centuries to look down upon Napo- 
 
52 THE OLD llEPRESEXTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 leon's soldiers, prompting them to prodigies of 
 valor, nor had the names of Frenchmen, slain 
 in the siege of Alexandria, been graven on the 
 base of that famous shaft. We are told that, 
 because the years after the revolution to those 
 of the rebellion were days of peace, there could 
 little interest attach to these walls; but if the 
 presence and spirit of Andrew and of those who 
 here held their ground in storm and sunshine do 
 not render these walls sacred for all time, then let 
 us remember that Whittier, one of our prede- 
 cessors, sang the praises of peace, saying, — 
 
 " Peace hath higher tests of manhood 
 Than battles ever knew." 
 
 "But what shall we do with it?" is the refrain. 
 Let it be the Massachusetts forum. Let mankind 
 hither come and here discuss their grievances, if 
 such they be. Many of us recall that day of last 
 year when the thousands of unemployed surged 
 up from the Common, up the stairways leading 
 to this room, and how they beat upon these doors, 
 seeking help for their distresses; and we recall 
 how in their spirit of violence they were met by 
 the firm hand of the governor and faced about 
 
ADDRESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 53 
 
 and driven out. To be sure they did later come 
 to this very room and here present and plead 
 their cause; but suppose this chamber, with all its 
 mighty memories, had been open to them, and 
 that in this place they could then have told their 
 woes, who can say that the effect Avould not be 
 for good? If here men should learn to make 
 war no more, then God be praised. What better 
 place can be found, the world over, where men 
 may beat their swords into ploughshares and 
 their spears into pruning hooks'? In a sense it 
 has already been a forum for the people, since 
 within this space have rung out the most elo- 
 quent voices of the State and nation. Their 
 principles prevented Garrison and Phillips being 
 members of this body, but at legislative hearings, 
 again and again, have their words been heard in 
 behalf of what they deemed the truth. More 
 than fifty years since the matchless voice of Lucy 
 Stone was heard here, pouring out her heart for 
 the enfranchisement of woman; and to hers in 
 later years have been joined those of Julia "Ward 
 Howe and Mary A. Livermore, making a peerless 
 trio for God and the right. 
 
 Annually more than fifty thousand people 
 
54: THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 
 
 climb the one hundred and seventy steps lead- 
 ing to the lantern whence is had the most 
 glorious view afforded by western civilization. 
 Above still shines the pine cone, a source of 
 pride to the builders, calling to mind the remote 
 district of Maine, yet once a distinct part of the 
 Commonwealth; and, though many may see in 
 it resemblance to other objects than the cone, yet 
 it is dear to the hearts of all, as cherished as to 
 the Englishman is the golden grasshopper which 
 at the 2^iniiacle of the tower of London's Royal 
 Exchange has long stayed his aerial flight. 
 
 And to-day the last legislative act in this cham- 
 ber is had. The story of a century is told. 
 
 Then, grand old hall, hallowed by the presence 
 and words of thy many, many thousands, with all 
 thy memories, all thy glory, hail and farewell ! 
 
 Note. — There is a wide difference ia the quality of illus- 
 trations in this book. A half-tone cannot be better than the 
 picture from which it is made. A good photograph makes a 
 good engraving. The securing of the originals of some of these 
 portraits was a serious task. The faces of Governor Sumner, 
 Speaker Hobiuns, Commissioner Dawes and Architect Bul- 
 FiNCH were copied from illustrations in books belonging to the 
 State Library. Lieutenant-Governor Gill's picture is from a 
 photograph belonging to his great-grandson, F. W. Gill of 
 
Alfred S. Roe. 
 
 Representative, i6th Worcester District. 
 
ADDllESS BY ALFRED S. ROE. 55 
 
 Boston. The orgiual oil painting (possibly a Stuart) is in 
 the possession of some branch of the Boylston family, in which 
 the lieutenant-governor found his second wife. Speaker Banks's 
 picture is from a daguerreotype made contemporaneously by J. J. 
 Hawes of Tremont Row ; that of Robert C. Wixthrop is also 
 from an early source. Messenger Kuhn's face is had from 
 a copy of an oil painting in the possession of the Sergeant-at- 
 Arms. Speaker Meyer's portrait is made from a photograph 
 of a recent oil painting by Julian Story. The earlier views 
 of the Hall are from wood cuts in Gleason's and Ballou's 
 Pictorials. 
 
 In conclusion, it is only fair that 1 should acknowledge my 
 obligations to State Librarian C. B. Tillixghast, whose sug- 
 gestions and favors have contributed much to the details of 
 this paper, and also to the State Printers, whose care and taste 
 have resufted in making this volume a fine specimen of the 
 book-maker's art. — A. S. R. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Executive and Legislative 
 Departments of the Goveris^ment 
 
 OP THE 
 
 t'ommontoaltb of |tl;iss;ubusttts. 
 1895. 
 
Executive Department. 
 
 HIS EXCEULiE^CY 
 
 Frederic T. Greenhalge of Lowell, 
 
 GOVEt^flOH- 
 
 HIS HOHOt? 
 
 ROGER WOLCOTT OF BOSTON, 
 
 LiIEUTEflRriT GOVEI^rlOI?. 
 
 ZIBR C. KEITH 
 
 CYRUS SRYilGE 
 
 coxjisrciL 
 
 District I. 
 District II. 
 
 District III. 
 
 FRHNCIS H. RRYMOND . 
 
 JOHN H. SULLIYJIN 
 
 District IV. 
 
 District V. 
 
 B. FRHNK SOUTHWICK . 
 
 District VI. 
 
 JOHN Fv. HARLOW 
 
 District VII. 
 
 CHARLES E. STEVENS 
 
 District VIII. 
 
 I ilLYflN BSRRUS . 
 
 of BrocKtor\. 
 of Taur\tor\. 
 of Socqerville. 
 of Bostoi\. 
 of Peabody. 
 of Woburr\. 
 of Ware, 
 of Gost\eq. 
 
 EXECUTIVE CUERK- 
 
 EDWHRD F. HRMLIN . . of Newtoq. 
 
Senate 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 
 Hon. WILLIAM M. BUTLER, 
 
 New Bedford. 
 
 CLERK: 
 
 HENRY D. COOUDGE. 
 
 Concord. 
 
 ASSISTANT CLERK: 
 
 WILLIAM H. SANGER. 
 
 Boston. 
 
 NAME. ADDRESS. 
 
 ^R CT. 
 
 Atherton, Horace H., 
 
 
 
 Saugus, . 
 
 Fifth Essex. 
 
 Atwood, Edward B., 
 
 
 
 Plymouth, 
 
 First Plymouth. 
 
 Bessom, Eugene A., . 
 
 
 
 Lynn, . 
 
 First Essex. 
 
 Bill, Ledyard, . 
 
 
 
 Pax ton, 
 
 Third Worcester. 
 
 Blodgett, Percival, . 
 
 
 
 Templeton, . 1 
 
 Worcester and ] 
 Hampshire. J 
 
 Bradford, Edward S., 
 
 
 
 Springfield, . 
 
 First Hampden. 
 
 Burns, George J., 
 
 
 
 Ayer, . 
 
 Fifth Middlesex. 
 
 Butler, William M., . 
 
 
 
 New Bedford, 
 
 Third Bristol. 
 
 Corbett, Joseph J., . 
 
 
 
 Boston, . 
 
 Second Suffolk. 
 
 Darling, Francis \V., 
 
 
 
 Hyde Park, . 
 
 First Norfolk. 
 
 Durant, William B., . 
 
 
 
 Cambridge, . 
 
 Third Middlesex. 
 
 Foss, Ether S., . 
 
 
 
 Lowell, . 
 
 SeventhMiddlesex. 
 
 Frothingham, Edward G., 
 
 
 Haverhill, . 
 
 Fourth Essex. 
 
 Fuller, Granville A., . 
 
 
 Boston, , 
 
 Eighth Suffolk. 
 
 Gage, George L., 
 
 
 Lawrence, 
 
 Sixth Essex. 
 
62 
 
 ArrENDix. 
 
 Senate - concluded. 
 
 NAME. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 DISTRICT. 
 
 Galloupe, George A., 
 
 
 
 Beverly, 
 
 Second Essex. 
 
 Gilbiide, Michael B., 
 
 
 
 Boston, . 
 
 Third Suffolk. 
 
 Gray, Robert S., 
 
 
 
 Walpole, 
 
 Second Norfolk. 
 
 Harvey, Edwin B., . 
 
 
 
 AVestborough, 
 
 Second Worcester. 
 
 Hutchinson, Isaac P., 
 
 
 
 Boston, • 
 
 Seventh Suffolk. 
 
 Lawrence, George P., 
 
 
 
 North Adams, 
 
 Berkshire. 
 
 Leach, James C, 
 
 
 
 Bridgewater, 
 
 Second Plymouth. 
 
 Maccabe, Joseph B., . 
 
 
 
 Boston, . 
 
 
 First Suffolk. 
 
 Malone, Dana, . 
 
 
 
 Greenfield, . 
 
 
 Franklin. 
 
 McMorrow, William H., 
 
 
 
 Boston, . 
 
 
 Sixth Suffolk. 
 
 Miller, Joel D., . 
 
 
 
 Leominster, . 
 
 
 Fourth Worcester. 
 
 Morse, William A., . 
 
 
 
 Tisbury, 
 
 
 Cape. 
 
 Neill, Joseph 0., 
 
 
 
 Fall River, 
 
 
 Second Bristol. 
 
 Niles, James P., 
 
 
 
 Watertown, 
 
 
 Second Middlesex. 
 
 Perkins, George W., . 
 
 
 
 Somerville, 
 
 
 First Middlesex. 
 
 Quinn, John, Jr., 
 
 
 
 Boston, . 
 
 
 Fourth Suffolk. 
 
 Reed, George A., 
 
 
 
 Framingham, 
 
 Fourth Middlesex. 
 
 Ripley, John B., 
 
 
 
 Chester, 
 
 
 Berkshire and \ 
 Hampshire. | 
 
 Salisbury, Stephen, . 
 
 
 
 Worcester, 
 
 
 First Worcester. 
 
 Sanger, George P., . 
 
 
 
 Boston, . 
 
 
 Fifth Suffolk. 
 
 Smith, Sylvanus, 
 
 
 
 Gloucester, 
 
 
 Third Essex. 
 
 Southard, Louis C, . 
 
 
 
 Easton, . 
 
 
 First Bristol. 
 
 Sprague, Charles F., . 
 
 
 
 Boston, • 
 
 
 Ninth Suffolk. 
 
 Wellman, Arthur H., 
 
 
 
 Maiden, 
 
 
 Sixth Middlesex. 
 
 Whitcomb, Marciene H., 
 
 
 
 Holyoke, 
 
 
 Second Hampden. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 63 
 
 House of Representatives. 
 
 SPEAKER: 
 
 HON. GEORGE V. L MEYER, 
 
 CLERK: 
 
 EDWARD A. McLaughlin, 
 
 ASS/STANT CLERK: 
 
 JAMES W. KIMBALL, 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Lynn. 
 
 NAME. 
 
 DISTRICT. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 Allen, Daniel W., . 
 Allen, Romeo E., 
 Atsatt, Isaiah P., . 
 Austin, Frederick E., 
 Bailey, George W., . 
 Bailey, James A., Jr., 
 Baker, Theophilus B., 
 Balch. Charles T., . 
 Bancroft, Charles G., 
 Bancroft, Solon, 
 Barber, Harding R., 
 Barker, Albert F., . 
 Barnes, Erwin F., 
 Barnes, Franklin 0., 
 
 
 
 
 19, Essex, 
 
 12, Worcester 
 7, Plymouth, 
 
 3, Bristol, . 
 
 4, Berkshire, 
 15, Middlesex, 
 
 2, Barnstable, 
 7, Essex, 
 
 13, Worcester, 
 
 14, Middlesex, 
 1, Worcester, 
 
 3, Plymouth, 
 6, Berkshire, 
 
 26, Suffolk, . 
 
 Lynn. 
 
 Shrewsbury. 
 
 Mattapoisett. 
 
 Taunton. 
 
 Pittsfield. 
 
 Arlington. 
 
 Harwich. 
 
 Groveland. 
 
 Clinton. 
 
 Reading. 
 
 Athol. 
 
 Hanson. 
 
 West Stockbridge. 
 
 Chelsea. 
 
64 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 House of Representatives- continued. 
 
 NAME. 
 
 DISTRICT. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 Barry, Daniel J , 
 
 
 
 14, Sutfolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Bates, John L., 
 
 
 
 1, Suffolk, , 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Beaman, Algernon T., 
 
 
 
 4, Worcester, 
 
 Princeton. 
 
 Bennett, Frank S.,* . 
 
 
 
 24, Middlesex, 
 
 Tyngsborough. 
 
 Bird, George B., 
 
 
 
 24, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Bliss, Henry C, 
 
 
 
 2, Hampden, 
 
 West Springfield. 
 
 Blodgett, Benjamin F., 
 
 
 
 5, Worcester, 
 
 West Brookfield. 
 
 Bond, Charles P., . 
 
 
 
 18, Middlesex, 
 
 AValtham. 
 
 Bourne, Samuel S., . 
 
 
 
 8, Plymouth, 
 
 Middleborough. 
 
 Boutwell, Harvey L., 
 
 
 
 9, Middlesex, 
 
 Maiden. 
 
 Bradford, Fred. H., . 
 
 
 
 18, Middlesex, 
 
 Waltham. 
 
 Bradley, Manassah" E., 
 
 
 
 2, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Brown, Charles D., . 
 
 
 
 10, Essex, 
 
 Gloucester. 
 
 Brown, Frederick A., 
 
 
 
 8, Worcester, 
 
 Webster. 
 
 Bullock, Benjamin S., 
 
 
 
 10, Essex, . 
 
 Manchester. 
 
 Burgas, William H., 
 
 
 
 2, Plymouth, 
 
 Kingston. 
 
 Burt, J. Marshall, . 
 
 
 
 9, Hampden, 
 
 East Longmeadow. 
 
 Burt, T. Preston, 
 
 
 
 3, Bristol, . 
 
 Taunton. 
 
 Carroll, Charles W., 
 
 
 
 11, Worcester, 
 
 Milford. 
 
 Carter, William, 
 
 
 
 9, Norfolk, . 
 
 Needliani. 
 
 Casey, Daniel C, 
 
 
 
 20, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Chandler, Frank, 
 
 
 
 16, Middlesex, 
 
 Belmont. 
 
 Clark, Luther W., . 
 
 
 
 4, Franklin, 
 
 Deerfield. 
 
 Cochran, James A., . 
 
 
 
 1, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Collins, Michael W., 
 
 
 
 3, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Cook, Heman S., 
 
 
 
 3, Barnstable, 
 
 Provincetown. 
 
 Cook, Gilbert, t- 
 
 
 
 14, Worcester, 
 
 Lunenburg. 
 
 * Died April 10. 
 
 t Died February 17 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 65 
 
 House of REPRESENTATIVES-CoNTivi-Fn 
 
 Creed, James F., 
 Crane, Ellery B.,* . 
 Dallinger, Frederick W., 
 Davis, William W., . 
 Denham, Thomas M., 
 Dickinson, David T., 
 Donahue, Thomas, . 
 Donovan, Timothy J., 
 Donovan, William F., 
 Donovan, William J., 
 Dow, Harry E.., 
 Drew, William H., . 
 Driscoll, Daniel M., . 
 Driscoll, William P., 
 Drury, Levi A., 
 Duddy, Robert, 
 Eddy, George M., 
 Edgarton, Henry, 
 Edgerton, Albert H., 
 Eldredge, Alpheus M., 
 Estes, Benjamin F., . 
 Fallon, Thomas F., . 
 Person, Clarentine E., 
 Fillmore, Wellington, 
 Fisk, Henry H., 
 Flint, James H., 
 Flint, Silas W., . 
 
 15, Snfiolk, . 
 21, Worcester, 
 
 2, Middlesex, 
 21, Suffolk, . 
 
 5, Bristol, . 
 
 1, Middlesex, 
 8, Bristol, . 
 
 4, Suffolk, . 
 8, Suffolk, . 
 
 2, Suffolk, . 
 
 5, Essex, 
 
 1, Plymouth, 
 12, Suffolk, . 
 
 12, Suffolk, . 
 
 3, Essex, 
 
 7, Middlesex, 
 
 6, Bristol, . 
 32, Middlesex, 
 
 5, Worcester, 
 11, Plymouth, 
 19, Essex, . 
 19, Suffolk, . 
 15, Worcester, 
 
 2, Middlesex, 
 1, Barnstable, 
 5, Norfolk, . 
 
 13, Middlesex, 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 Boston. 
 Worcester. 
 Cambridge. 
 Boston. 
 New Bedford- 
 Cambridge. 
 Fall River. 
 Boston. 
 Boston. 
 Boston. 
 Lawrence. 
 Plymouth. 
 Boston. 
 Boston. 
 Bradford. 
 Somerville. 
 New Bedford. 
 Shirley. 
 Sturbridge. 
 Brockton. 
 Lynn. 
 Boston. 
 Fitchburg. 
 Cambridge. 
 Dennis. 
 Weymouth. 
 Wakefield. 
 
 * Elected to succeed Henry Y. Simpson, deceased. 
 
66 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 House of Representatives- continued. 
 
 NAME. 
 
 DISTRICT. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 Flynn, Joseph J., 
 
 
 
 4, Essex, 
 
 Lawrence. 
 
 Foote, William H., . 
 
 
 
 2, Hampden, 
 
 Westfield. 
 
 Ford, William E., . 
 
 
 
 23, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Foss, Otis, 
 
 
 
 1, Dukes, 
 
 Cottage City. 
 
 Fowle, George E., . 
 
 
 
 14, Middlesex, 
 
 Woburn. 
 
 French, Zenas A., 
 
 
 
 6, Norfolk, . 
 
 Holbrook. 
 
 Gallivau, James A., . 
 
 
 
 13, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Gardner, John J., 
 
 
 
 1, Nantucket, 
 
 Nantucket. 
 
 Gauss, John D. H., . 
 
 
 
 13, Essex, 
 
 Salem. 
 
 Gaylord, Henry E., . 
 
 
 
 3, Hampshire, 
 
 South Hadley. 
 
 Geary, Michael P., • 
 
 
 
 13, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 George, Samuel W., . 
 
 
 
 2, Essex, 
 
 Haverhill. 
 
 Gillingham, James L., 
 
 
 
 4, Bristol, . 
 
 Fairhaven. 
 
 Goodrich, Charles W., 
 
 
 
 3, Berkshire, 
 
 Hinsdale. 
 
 Graham, William T., 
 
 
 
 5, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Grant, Alexander, . 
 
 
 
 5, Hampden, 
 
 Chicopee. 
 
 Gray, Joshua S., 
 
 
 
 5, Plymouth, 
 
 Rockland. 
 
 Greenwood, Abner, . 
 
 
 
 27, Middlesex, 
 
 Ashland. 
 
 Grover, Thomas E., . 
 
 
 
 4, Norfolk, . 
 
 Canton. 
 
 Hale, Edward A., 
 
 
 
 8, Essex, 
 
 Newburyport. 
 
 Hammond, Charles L., 
 
 
 
 5, Norfolk, . 
 
 Quincy. 
 
 Hammond, George, . 
 
 
 
 7, Worcester, 
 
 Charlton. 
 
 Harlow, Franklin P., 
 
 
 
 6, Plymouth, 
 
 Whitman. 
 
 Harrington, James L.,* 
 
 
 
 14, Worcester, 
 
 Lunenburg. 
 
 Harvey, Benjamin C, 
 
 
 
 8, Hampden, 
 
 Springfield. 
 
 Harwood, Albert L., 
 
 
 
 17, Middlesex, 
 
 Newton Centre. 
 
 Hastings, Samuel, . 
 
 
 
 2, Franklin, 
 
 Warwick. 
 
 * Elected to succeed Gilbert Cook, deceased. 
 
 I. OF C. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 67 
 
 House of Represent 
 
 - -Continued. 
 
 NAME. 
 
 DISTRICT. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 Hathaway, Bowers C, 
 
 
 
 
 12, Worcester, 
 
 Westborough. 
 
 Hathaway, Frederic \V., 
 
 
 
 
 12, Plymouth, 
 
 Brockton. 
 
 Hawkes, Wesley 0., 
 
 
 
 
 31, Middlesex, 
 
 Westford. 
 
 Hayes, William H. I., 
 
 
 
 
 24, Middlesex, . 
 
 Lowell. 
 
 Hibbard, George A., . 
 
 
 
 
 18, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Higgins, Sumner C, . 
 
 
 
 
 4, Middlesex, 
 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Hoban, Thomas F., . 
 
 
 
 
 25, Middlesex, 
 
 Lowell. 
 
 Holdcn, Joshua B., . 
 
 
 
 
 11, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Holland, Timothy, . 
 
 
 
 
 19, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Hollis, J. Edward, . 
 
 
 
 
 17, Middlesex, 
 
 Newton. 
 
 Holt, E. Clarence, . 
 
 
 
 
 3, Bristol, . 
 
 Taunton. 
 
 Horan, John G., 
 
 
 
 
 15. Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Howe, Louis P., 
 
 
 
 
 29, Middlesex, 
 
 Marlborough. 
 
 Humphrey, Henry D., 
 
 
 
 
 1, Norfolk, . 
 
 Dedhara. 
 
 Huse, Caleb B., 
 
 
 
 
 8, Essex, 
 
 Newburyport. 
 
 Hutchinson, W. Henry, 
 
 
 
 
 20, Essex, . 
 
 Lynn. 
 
 Irwin, Richard W., . 
 
 
 
 
 1, Hampshire, 
 
 Northampton. 
 
 Ives, D wight H., 
 
 
 
 \ 3, Hampden, 
 
 Holyoke. 
 
 Jenks, William S., . 
 
 
 
 2, Berkshire, 
 
 Adams. 
 
 Johnson, Edward P., 
 
 
 
 i 18, Essex, 
 
 Lynn. 
 
 Jones, George R., 
 
 
 
 11, Middlesex, 
 
 Melrose. 
 
 Jordan, Cyrus A., . 
 
 
 
 U, Essex, . 
 
 Salem. 
 
 Jourdan, Benjamin A., 
 
 
 
 10, Worcester, 
 
 Upton. 
 
 Kaan, Frank W., . 
 
 
 
 6, Middlesex, 
 
 Somerville. 
 
 Keenan, James, 
 
 
 
 . 16, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Keenan, Thomas F., 
 
 
 
 8, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Kellogg, John E., 
 
 
 
 Li, Worcester, 
 
 Fitchburg. 
 
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 APPENDIX, 
 
 House of Representatives -continued. 
 
 NAME. 
 
 DISTRICT. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 Kimball, William G., 
 
 
 
 2, Hampshire, 
 
 Huntington. 
 
 Kingman, Francis M., 
 
 
 
 9, Plymouth, 
 
 East Bridgewater. 
 
 Knox, Joseph B., 
 
 
 
 22, Worcester, 
 
 Worcester. 
 
 Krebbs, Franz H., Jr., 
 
 
 
 17, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Lawrence, Amos A., 
 
 
 
 4, Plymouth, 
 
 Cohasset. 
 
 Leach, George A., • 
 
 
 
 28, Middlesex, 
 
 Wayland. 
 
 Leach, Osgood L., . 
 
 
 
 3, Franklin, 
 
 Northfield. 
 
 Leach, Warren S., . 
 
 
 
 2, Bristol, . 
 
 Raynham. 
 
 Light, Charles F., . 
 
 
 
 3, Norfolk, . 
 
 Hyde Park. 
 
 Lowell, Francis C, . 
 
 
 
 11, Sufiolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Lynch, John M., 
 
 
 
 4, Essex, 
 
 Lawrence. 
 
 Macomber, John A., 2d, 
 
 
 
 7, Bristol, . 
 
 Westport. 
 
 Mann, Hugo, . 
 
 
 
 5, Franklin, 
 
 Buckland. 
 
 Harden, William H., 
 
 
 
 12, Middlesex, 
 
 Stoneham. 
 
 Mayo, Samuel N., . 
 
 
 
 8, Middlesex, 
 
 Medford. 
 
 McCarthy, Jeremiah J., 
 
 
 
 4, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 McMackin, Bernard, 
 
 
 
 7, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Melaven, James F., . 
 
 
 
 20, Worcester, 
 
 Worcester. 
 
 Mellen, George H., . 
 
 
 
 23, Worcester, 
 
 Worcester. 
 
 Mellen, James H., . 
 
 
 
 19, Worcester, 
 
 Worcester. 
 
 Meyer, George v. L., 
 
 
 
 9, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Mills, Charles E., . 
 
 
 
 9, Bristol, . 
 
 Fall River. 
 
 Mitchell, Samuel H., 
 
 
 
 25, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Mooney, Joseph F., . 
 
 
 
 8, Bristol, . 
 
 Fall River. 
 
 Moore, E. Lewis, 
 
 
 
 28, Middlesex, 
 
 Framingham. 
 
 Moran, William, 
 
 
 
 8, Bristol, . 
 
 Fall River, 
 
 Moriarty, Eugene M., 
 
 
 
 18, Worcester, 
 
 Worcester. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
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 House of Representatives- continued. 
 
 NAME. 
 
 DISTRICT. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 Mulvey, Mark B., . 
 
 
 
 
 22, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Murphy, Timothy F., 
 
 
 
 
 7, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Myers, James J., 
 
 
 
 
 1, Middlesex, 
 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Newell, Herbert, 
 
 
 
 
 1, Franklin, 
 
 Shelburne. 
 
 Newell, Richard, 
 
 
 
 
 1, Essex, 
 
 West Newbury. 
 
 Newhall, George H., 
 
 
 
 
 17, Essex, 
 
 Lynn. 
 
 Newhall, John B., 
 
 
 
 
 18, Essex, . 
 
 Lynn. 
 
 Norton, Joseph J., . 
 
 
 
 
 14, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 O'Brien, Michael J., 
 
 
 
 
 0, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 O'Connor, John J., . 
 
 
 
 
 23, Middlesex, 
 
 Lowell. 
 
 O'Hara, John M., . 
 
 
 
 
 3, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Osgood, L. Edgar, . 
 
 
 
 
 6, Essex, 
 
 North Andover. 
 
 Parker, Theodore K., 
 
 
 
 
 2, Worcester, 
 
 Winchendon. 
 
 Penniman, George W., 
 
 
 
 
 10, Plymouth, 
 
 Brockton. 
 
 Perkins, Lyman H., . 
 
 
 
 
 6, Hampden, 
 
 Springfield. 
 
 Phelps, Carlton T., . 
 
 
 
 
 1, Berkshire, 
 
 North Adams. 
 
 Pinkham, Edward W., 
 
 
 
 
 17, Essex, . 
 
 Lynn. 
 
 Porter, Burrill, Jr., . 
 
 
 
 
 1, Bristol, . 
 
 No. Attleborough. 
 
 Porter, George W., . 
 
 
 
 
 7, Norfolk, . 
 
 Avon. 
 
 Porter, J. Frank, 
 
 
 
 
 22, Essex, . 
 
 Danvers. 
 
 Prevaux, John J., 
 
 
 
 
 1, Essex, 
 
 Amesbury. 
 
 Putnam, George E., . 
 
 
 
 
 22, Middlesex, 
 
 Lowell. 
 
 Quint, Nicolas M., . 
 
 
 
 
 21, Essex, 
 
 Pcabody. 
 
 Quirk, Charles I., 
 
 
 
 
 20, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Rice, Henry F., 
 
 
 
 
 9, Worcester, 
 
 Sutton. 
 
 Richardson, Robert A., 
 
 
 
 
 3, Essex, 
 
 Haverhill. 
 
 Roberts, Ernest W., 
 
 
 
 
 27, Suffolk, . 
 
 Chelsea, 
 
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 NAME. 
 
 DISTRICT. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 Roe, Alfred S., . 
 
 
 
 
 16, Worcester, 
 
 Worcester. 
 
 Root, Silas B., . 
 
 
 
 
 
 1, Hampden, 
 
 Granville. 
 
 Roper, George A., 
 
 
 
 
 
 24, Middlesex, 
 
 Lowell. 
 
 Ross, Samuel, . 
 
 
 
 
 
 5, Bristol, . 
 
 New Bedford. 
 
 Rourke, Daniel D., 
 
 
 
 
 
 6, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Rourke, Fred H., 
 
 
 
 
 
 21, Middlesex, 
 
 Lowell. 
 
 Russell, George G., 
 
 
 
 
 
 In, Essex, 
 
 Salem. 
 
 Ryan, James F., 
 
 
 
 
 
 16, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Ryder, Martin F., 
 
 
 
 
 
 6, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Sargent, Charles F., 
 
 
 
 
 
 5, Essex, 
 
 Lawrence. 
 
 Scates, George M., 
 
 
 
 
 
 21, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Searls, William P., 
 
 
 
 
 
 17, Worcester, 
 
 Worcester. 
 
 Shea, John T., . 
 
 
 
 
 
 3, Middlesex, 
 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Sheehan, John F., 
 
 
 
 
 
 4, Hampden, 
 
 Holyoke. 
 
 Shepherd, William, 
 
 
 
 
 
 20, Essex, 
 
 Lynn. 
 
 Sibley, Frank M., 
 
 
 
 
 
 5, Hampshire, 
 
 Ware. 
 
 Sisson, Henry D., 
 
 
 
 
 
 7, Berkshire, 
 
 New Marlborough. 
 
 Slade, David F., 
 
 
 
 
 
 9, Bristol, . 
 
 Fall River. 
 
 Sleeper, George T., 
 
 
 
 
 
 27, Suffolk, . 
 
 Winthrop. 
 
 Smith, Albert C, 
 
 
 
 
 
 18, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Smith, Henry M., 
 
 
 
 
 
 5, Berkshire, 
 
 Lee. 
 
 Snow, George F., 
 
 
 
 
 
 20, Middlesex, 
 
 Chelmsford. 
 
 Southworth, Amasa E., . 
 
 
 
 
 5, Middlesex, 
 
 Somerville. 
 
 Spalding, Warren F., 
 
 
 
 
 4, Middlesex, 
 
 Cambridge. 
 
 SpofiFord, John C, . 
 
 
 
 
 10, Middlesex, 
 
 Everett . 
 
 Spring, Arthur L., • 
 
 
 
 
 10, Suffolk, . 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Stanley, Fred D., 
 
 
 
 
 
 6, Bristol, . 
 
 New Bedford. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
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 House of Representatives -continued. 
 
 Stevens, Ezra A., 
 St. John, Thomas E., 
 Stocker, Joseph W., 
 Stone, Daniel D., 
 Strong, Homer 0., 
 Sturtevant, Charles ] 
 Tarr, George J., 
 Teamoh, Robert T., 
 Thacher, Josiah P., 
 Thurston, Lyman D. 
 Tolman, William, 
 Tower, Henry, . 
 Towie, William W., 
 Tuite, Michael, . 
 Turner, Arthur H., 
 Turner, George W.,* 
 Tuttle, John E., 
 Utley, Charles H., 
 Wadden, Frank L., 
 Waite, Gilnian, . 
 Wakefield, Charles E. 
 Wales, George A., 
 Wallis, Horace E., 
 Warriner, Stephen C, 
 Waterman, George B., 
 Wentworth, George L., 
 Weston, Clarence P., 
 
 9, Middlesex, 
 2, Essex, 
 
 12, Essex, 
 
 9, Essex, . 
 1, Hampshire, 
 
 23, Suffolk, . 
 
 10, Essex, 
 
 9, Suffolk, . 
 
 30, Middlesex, 
 
 6, Worcester, 
 
 4, Berkshire, 
 
 29, Middlesex, 
 
 17, Suffolk, . 
 
 11, AVorcester, 
 
 13, Worcester, 
 G, Hampden, 
 
 24, Suffolk, . 
 2, Norfolk, . 
 
 16, Essex, 
 2, Worcester, 
 
 4, Hampshire, 
 
 7, Norfolk, . 
 10, Hampden, 
 
 8, Hampden, 
 1, Berkshire, 
 
 5, Norfolk, . 
 10, Suffolk, . 
 
 Maiden. 
 
 Haverhill. 
 
 Beverly. 
 ! Hamilton. 
 
 Southampton. 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Gloucester. 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Littleton. 
 
 Leicester. 
 
 Pittsfield. 
 
 Hudson. 
 
 Boston. 
 Blackstone. 
 
 Harvard. 
 
 Springfield. 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Brookline. 
 
 Marblehead. 
 
 Templeton. 
 
 Amherst. 
 
 Stoughton. 
 
 Holland. 
 
 Springfield. 
 
 Williamstown. 
 
 Weymouth. 
 
 Boston. 
 
 * Elected to succeed Joseph L Shijiloy, deceased. 
 
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 NAME. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 Wheaton, Mark 0., . 
 
 
 
 
 1, Bristol, . 
 
 Attleborough. 
 
 Whitaker, Elbridge J., 
 
 
 
 
 8, Norfolk, . 
 
 Wrentham. 
 
 White, George E., . 
 
 
 
 
 1, Barnstable, 
 
 Sandwich. 
 
 White, Williams., . 
 
 
 
 
 8, Norfolk, . 
 
 Foxborough. 
 
 Wiley, Albert L., . 
 
 
 
 
 3, Worcester, 
 
 Hardwick. 
 
 Willard, Edward E., 
 
 
 
 
 26, Snffolk, . 
 
 Chelsea. 
 
 Wilson, Edward H., 
 
 
 
 
 26, Middlesex, 
 
 Natick. 
 
 Winn, John, 
 
 
 
 
 19, Middlesex, 
 
 Woburn. 
 
 Wood, Henry 0., 
 
 
 
 
 10, Bristol, . 
 
 Swanzey. 
 
 Woodfall, J. Loring, 
 
 
 
 
 11, Essex, 
 
 Rockport. 
 
 Young, Charles L., . 
 
 
 
 
 7, Hampden, 
 
 Springfield. 
 
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