1888 Massachusetts legislature

109th
Massachusetts General Court
109th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 8, 1887
Senate
Members	40
President	Halsey J. Boardman
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Charles J. Noyes
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 4, 1888 – May 29, 1888

Last updated May 12, 2024

Halsey J. Boardman, Senate president.

Charles Noyes, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1888.

The 109th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1888 during the governorship of Oliver Ames. Halsey J. Boardman served as president of the Senate and Charles J. Noyes served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

Image	Name ^[6]	Date of birth ^[7]	District	Party
	Halsey J. Boardman	May 19, 1834
	Charles Nathaniel Clark	1853
	William Alfred Clark	1852
	John Aloysius Collins	1860
	Benjamin Franklin Cook	1833
	John Crawford Crosby	June 15, 1859
	Patrick Dennis Dwyer	1857
	Jonathan Varnum Fletcher	1812
	Charles Albert Gleason	1846
	Jubal Converse Gleason	1837
	Edward Glines	August 31, 1849
	Harris Cowdrey Hartwell	1847
	Edward Jacob Hathorne	1854
	Robert Howard	February 8, 1845
	Frank W. Howe	June 3, 1859
	Franklyn Howland	1843
	Edward John Jenkins	1854
	Isaac Newton Keith	November 14, 1838
	Ziba Cary Keith	July 13, 1842
	David Frank Kimball	1845
	Chester Ward Kingsley	1824
	George Perley Ladd	1838
	Edwin T. Marble	August 18, 1827
	William Taylor McAlpine	1840
	Austin Messinger	1817
	Moses Poore Palmer	1830
	Levi Perkins	March 13, 1831
	James Davis Pike	1829
	Samuel Roads, Jr.	October 22, 1853
	John Francis Shea	1858
	Edward J. Slattery	June 15, 1856
	John Killbourne Clough Sleeper	1828
	Robert Alexander Southworth	1852
	Charles C. Spellman	December 3, 1843
	Henry Harrison Sprague	August 1, 1841
	James Trimble Stevens	1835
	John Henry Sullivan	1848
	Charles Andrew Towne	1843
	Enos Houghton Tucker	1817
	David Walker	1841
	Silas Mandeville Wheelock	1818

Representatives

Name^[6]	Date of birth^[7]	District^[8]	Party^[8]
Charles E. Adams	April 6, 1841	24th Middlesex	Republican
John Jesse Allen	1844	8th Worcester	Republican
Montressor Tyler Allen	1844	14th Middlesex	Republican
William Oscar Armstrong ^[9]	1847	9th Suffolk	Republican
Horace H. Atherton	1847	20th Essex	Republican
Harrison Henry Atwood	August 26, 1863	8th Suffolk	Republican
Rollin Herbert Babbitt	1840	3rd Bristol	Republican
John Backup	1830	21st Suffolk	Ind. Republican
William Emerson Barrett	December 29, 1858	11th Middlesex	Republican
Joseph Freeland Bartlett	1843	3rd Franklin	Republican
Charles Henry Bennett	March 11, 1843	8th Hampden	Democratic
Francis Taylor Berry	1849	13th Essex	Republican
Charles Chauncey Bixby	1824	12th Plymouth	Republican
Edwin Henry Blake	1838	19th Middlesex	Republican
Andreas Blume	1837	11th Suffolk	Republican
Francis Boardman	1826	16th Essex	Democratic
John Bennett Bottum	July 7, 1852	1st Hampshire	Republican
Albert Augustus Brackett	1850	4th Norfolk	Republican
Peter Joseph Brady	October 29, 1861	23rd Middlesex	Democratic
Arthur Butler Breed	June 30, 1857	19th Essex	Republican
Edward Winslow Brewer	1858	23rd Suffolk	Republican
Arthur Amber Brigham	October 6, 1856	29th Middlesex	Independent
Asa Olin Brooks	1852	7th Hampden
John Freeman Brown	1848	24th Suffolk	Republican
William Howe Burnham	1840	10th Essex	Republican
William A. Butler	February 4, 1859	7th Essex	Republican
Charles Amos Call	1839	8th Hampden	Republican
Patrick Joseph Calnan	1847	5th Suffolk	Democratic
Joseph Henry Cannell	1836	10th Middlesex	Republican
William Henry Carey	1848	4th Berkshire	Democratic
William Alexander Carman	1854	8th Bristol	Democratic
Michael Carney	1820	4th Essex	Democratic
George N. Carpenter	January 26, 1840	2nd Norfolk	Republican
Peter Thomas Carroll	1857	18th Worcester	Ind. Democrat
Arthur Babcock Champlin	1858	26th Suffolk	Republican
Joseph Pike Cheney	1843	16th Worcester	Republican
Moses Davis Church	1842	4th Middlesex	Republican
David Harris Clark	1836	26th Middlesex	Republican
Henry Clark	1841	9th Hampden	Republican
Schuyler Clark	1841	2nd Hampshire	Republican
Rowse Reynolds Clarke^[10]	February 12, 1822	10th Worcester	Republican
George Close	1845	2nd Middlesex	Republican
John Freeman Colby	1834	18th Suffolk	Republican
Harvey Newton Collison	1860	6th Suffolk	Democratic
Charles Wright Conant	1833	2nd Worcester	Republican
James Conroy	1850	8th Bristol	Democratic
David Conwell	1818	3rd Barnstable	Republican
George Hunting Coolidge	1841	5th Worcester	Republican
John William Coveney	April 10, 1845	3rd Middlesex	Democratic
James Martin Cronin	1857	20th Worcester	Democratic
Joshua Crowell	1841	1st Barnstable	Republican
Samuel Cutler	1825	5th Middlesex	Republican
Albert Levi Dame	1841	3rd Essex	Democratic
Luther Dame	March 3, 1826	8th Essex	Republican
Edmund Augustus Davis	1839	10th Bristol	Republican
John Watton Delano	1852	7th Plymouth	Democratic
George Dennis	1825	10th Essex	Republican
Jeremiah Desmond	May 2, 1853	16th Suffolk	Democratic
Wilson Dewey	1815	3rd Hampshire	Republican
Solomon King Dexter	1839	24th Middlesex	Republican
John Doherty	1844	7th Suffolk	Democratic
Bernard Dolan	1838	7th Norfolk	Democratic
Edward James Donovan	1864	8th Suffolk	Democratic
James Donovan	May 28, 1859	16th Suffolk	Democratic
Theodore Parker Dresser	1854	8th Middlesex	Republican
John Driscoll	1853	20th Essex	Democratic
James Joseph Dunlea	1857	22nd Suffolk	Democratic
Harry Millett Eames	July 9, 1855	5th Essex	Republican
Albert Redolphus Eldredge	September 10, 1850	1st Barnstable	Republican
Frank Aldrich Fales	October 13, 1848	1st Norfolk	Republican
Thomas George Farren	1858	7th Suffolk	Democratic
William F. Ferry	July 4, 1854	6th Hampden	Republican
Elkanah Finney	October 31, 1849	1st Plymouth	Democratic
Albert Laban Fisher	1846
Edward Perry Fisk	1852	10th Suffolk	Republican
David Floyd	October 26, 1854	27th Suffolk	Republican
Edward James Flynn	1859	6th Suffolk	Democratic
Thomas Joseph Flynn	1849	21st Middlesex	Democratic
Jacob Fottler	1839	10th Suffolk	Republican
Henry Friend	1841	11th Essex	Republican
Henry Frost	1832	18th Suffolk	Republican
Edward Gagan	1849	5th Suffolk	Democratic
Michael Garity	1848	15th Suffolk	Democratic
George Washington Gibson	1851	5th Hampden	Democratic
William Augustus Gile	1843	23rd Worcester	Republican
Joseph Henry Gleason	1848	4th Suffolk	Republican
Willard Franklin Gleason	December 24, 1846	6th Norfolk	Republican
William Gordon	1825	6th Bristol	Republican
Charles Goss	1841	1st Essex	Republican
Samuel Levis Gracey	1835	14th Essex	Republican
Davis Packard Gray	1827
Morrill Asa Greenwood	1839	14th Worcester	Republican
Freeman Clark Griswold	December 15, 1858	1st Franklin	Democratic
Charles Francis Grosvenor	1850	10th Hampden	Republican
Daniel Gunn	1850	23rd Suffolk	Republican
David Joseph Hagerty	1857	14th Suffolk	Democratic
Charles Haggerty	December 6, 1854	7th Worcester	Democratic
Frederick Stanley Hall	1861	3rd Bristol	Republican
Benjamin Hall Hartwell	1845	32nd Middlesex	Republican
Henry Clark Haskell	1837	4th Franklin	Ind. Democrat
William Harrison Hastings	1840	28th Middlesex	Democratic
Franklin Winslow Hatch	1836	2nd Plymouth	Republican
James Ambrose Hathaway	1837	25th Suffolk	Republican
Elihu Burritt Hayes	1848	18th Essex	Republican
John Edward Hayes	1845	3rd Suffolk	Democratic
Henry Dunton Haynes	1837	5th Worcester	Republican
Robert Henry	1833	9th Bristol	Republican
Luther Hill	1825	6th Worcester	Republican
William John Hinchcliffe	1855	5th Essex	Republican
Calvin Hitchcock	1817	5th Hampshire	Republican
William Southerland Hixon	1848	26th Suffolk	Republican
John Adams Holbrook	1837	5th Norfolk	Democratic
Frank Edward Holman	1853	13th Worcester	Republican
George Mitchell Hooper	September 1, 1838	9th Plymouth	Republican
George Harford Hunt	1843	5th Plymouth	Republican
Alden Potter Jaques	March 4, 1835	2nd Essex	Republican
Jeremiah Joseph Keane	1855	4th Hampden	Democratic
George Henry Kearn	1839	1st Berkshire	Democratic
Horace Manley Kendall	1848	15th Worcester	Republican
Patrick Joseph Kennedy	January 14, 1858	2nd Suffolk	Democratic
Henry Albert Kimball	May 3, 1842	1st Hampshire	Democratic
John White Kimball	February 27, 1828	15th Worcester	Republican
Charles Henry Knox	1847	1st Hampden	Democratic
James Lally Jr.	1862	11th Worcester	Democratic
William Tuck Leach	1838	24th Suffolk	Republican
Edward Joseph Leary	May 27, 1860	13th Suffolk	Democratic
John Q. A. Lothrop	October 14, 1824	4th Plymouth	Republican
Clarence Parker Lovell	1848	1st Suffolk	Republican
Payson Williston Lyman	1842	4th Hampshire	Republican
Henry Stephen Lyons	November 21, 1865	1st Berkshire	Democratic
Albert Sylvester Manning	1846	6th Essex	Republican
David Manning	August 29, 1846	22nd Worcester	Republican
James Pope Martin	1827	18th Essex	Republican
Samuel Walker McCall	February 28, 1851	15th Middlesex	Republican
Patrick McCarthy	1849	10th Plymouth	Democratic
Thomas McCooey	1851	11th Worcester	Democratic
Robert Henry McDonald	1854	6th Berkshire	Democratic
John H. McDonough	March 29, 1857	20th Suffolk
Thomas Owen McEnaney	October 23, 1857	2nd Suffolk	Democratic
Michael Joseph McEttrick	June 22, 1848	20th Suffolk	Democratic
James Henry Mellen	1845	19th Worcester	Democratic
John Flint Merrill	January 16, 1849	5th Norfolk	Republican
Albert E. Miller	1834	9th Norfolk	Republican
Lyman Munson Miller	1836	27th Suffolk	Republican
Daniel Lake Milliken	1837	9th Middlesex	Republican
John Cruikshank Milne	1824	9th Bristol	Republican
William Henry Monahan	1857	19th Suffolk	Democratic
George Francis Morey	1826	24th Middlesex	Republican
John Milton Morin	February 14, 1828	2nd Berkshire	Democratic
Harrison Emmons Morton	1842	13th Worcester	Republican
Sidney Tucker Nelson	1845	8th Plymouth	Republican
Thomas Lorenzo Noonan	1835	19th Suffolk	Democratic
Caleb Jerome Norwood	1838	9th Essex	Democratic
Charles Johnson Noyes	August 7, 1841	14th Suffolk
Dennis Joseph O'Brien	1845	27th Middlesex	Democratic
John William O'Mealey	1861	17th Suffolk	Democratic
John William O'Neil	1859	3rd Suffolk	Democratic
Thomas F. O'Neill	November 5, 1859	29th Middlesex	Democratic
Henry Parkman	May 23, 1850	9th Suffolk	Republican
Isaac Smith Pear	1830	4th Middlesex	Republican
Henry Mulford Peirson	1825	4th Berkshire	Republican
Nathaniel R. Perkins	September 10, 1847	2nd Worcester	Republican
George Robbins Perry	1836	1st Bristol	Republican
Charles Quincy Pierce	1841	16th Middlesex	Republican
Alfred Stamm Pinkerton	March 19, 1856	17th Worcester	Republican
John Wallace Plaisted	1828	21st Worcester	Republican
William Hall Poore	1864	3rd Essex	Republican
Harvey Hunter Pratt	1860	6th Plymouth	Democratic
William Henry Preble	1856	4th Suffolk	Republican
William Provin	February 14, 1842	2nd Hampden	Democratic
Francis Winnie Qua	1845	22nd Middlesex	Republican
Josiah Quincy	October 15, 1859	5th Norfolk	Ind. Democrat
Andrew Quinn	1853	12th Suffolk	Ind. Democrat
Dennis Joseph Quinn	1861	12th Suffolk	Democratic
Philip Henry Quinn	1859
Francis Henry Raymond	February 19, 1836	6th Middlesex	Republican
Samuel Miner Raymond	June 30, 1842	3rd Berkshire	Democratic
John Read	May 19, 1840	1st Middlesex	Republican
James Henry Richards	1839	16th Essex	Republican
Henry Riddell	1848	Nantucket	Independent
John C. Risteen	1841	1st Essex	Independent
Ethan Chapin Robinson	1839	6th Hampden	Democratic
Jonathan Henry Robinson	February 9, 1831	12th Worcester	Republican
Joseph Wheelden Rogers	1823	2nd Barnstable	Republican/Prohibitionist
Samuel Nomlas Rogers	1840	9th Worcester	Republican
William Blanding Rogerson	1846	2nd Bristol	Republican
Arthur Gilbert Rounsevell	1851	4th Bristol	Republican
Charles Parks Rugg	1827	6th Bristol	Republican
Alvin Dudley Russell	1849	30th Middlesex	Republican
Irving Levi Russell	1852	7th Middlesex	Republican
Alpheus Sanford	July 5, 1856	17th Suffolk	Republican
Chester Franklin Sanger	1858	1st Middlesex	Republican
Charles Warren Seavey	1839	8th Norfolk	Republican
Edward Payson Shaw	September 1, 1841	7th Essex	Republican
Charles Fay Shepard	1827	2nd Hampden	Republican
Samuel Dwight Simonds	1846	4th Worcester	Republican
George Wing Slocum	1818	7th Bristol	Republican
Winfield Scott Slocum	1848	17th Middlesex	Republican
Sidney Pond Smith	1850	1st
William Davies Sohier	1858	12th Essex	Ind. Republican
Benjamin Franklin Southwick	July 5, 1835	21st Essex	Republican
Charles Edward Spring	1841	28th Middlesex	Republican
Daniel Philmore Stimpson	1818	17th Essex	Republican
Cyrus Story	1822	10th Essex	Republican
Elijah Baron Stowe	1844	8th Norfolk	Republican
Michael Francis Sullivan	September 22, 1858	6th Essex	Democratic
Thomas Francis Sullivan	1862	13th Suffolk	Democratic
Charles Henry Symonds	1857	15th Essex	Republican
Robert Lovett Taft	1841	7th Berkshire	Republican
Albert Hobbs Temple	1832	5th Franklin	Republican
Rufus Albert Thayer	1839	7th Norfolk	Republican
Albert Cranston Thompson	1843	11th Plymouth	Republican
Albert Gardner Thompson	1853	25th Middlesex	Republican
Isaac Brownell Tompkins	August 17, 1826	5th Bristol	Republican
Joseph Leland Towne	1861	19th Essex	Democratic
George Washington Trull	1849	20th Middlesex	Republican
Henry Abiel Turner	1827	3rd Plymouth	Republican
Ansel Peabody Tyler	1839	22nd Essex	Republican
Samuel Otis Upham	1824	18th Middlesex	Republican
Edwin D. Vanderhoop	1848	Dukes	Republican
Horace G. Wadlin	October 2, 1851	14th Middlesex	Republican
Abijah Tyler Wales	1833	1st Bristol	Republican
Arthur Clarence Walworth	1844	17th Middlesex	Republican
Erskine Warden	1839	18th Middlesex	Republican
Jacob Otis Wardwell	March 14, 1857	2nd Essex	Republican
Moses Everett Ware	1831	21st Suffolk	Republican
Franklin Levi Waters	1829	2nd Franklin	Republican
William Fisher Wharton	1847	11th Suffolk	Republican
James Edgar Whitcher	1847	12th Middlesex	Republican
William Leonard White	1843	3rd Bristol	Republican
William Allan Wilde	1837	9th Middlesex	Republican
Albert Llewellyn Wiley	1835	3rd Worcester	Republican
John Williamson Wilkinson	1832	2nd Middlesex	Republican
Rufus Henry Willis	1838	5th Bristol	Republican
Reuben Winchester	1825	3rd Hampden	Democratic
John Winthrop	1841	5th Berkshire	Democratic
Charles Thomas Witt	July 18, 1848	1st Suffolk	Republican
Frank Forrest Woods		15th Suffolk	Republican
Charles Francis Woodward	November 19, 1852	13th Middlesex	Republican
Arthur Wright	1837	31st Middlesex	Republican
Ferdinand Adolphus Wyman	1850	3rd Norfolk

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References

↑ "Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
↑ "Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
↑ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
↑ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
↑ Kaitlin Connolly (September 24, 2012), "Women's Suffrage Movement in Massachusetts", State Library of Massachusetts blog
1 2 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1888.
1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1888" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts
1 2 Andrew, George F. (1888). Official Gazette.
↑ Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905
↑ State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020

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Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1888, hdl:2452/83194

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[CompSenate-1] "Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020

[CompHouse-2] "Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020

[3] "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.

[4] "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.

[5] Kaitlin Connolly (September 24, 2012), "Women's Suffrage Movement in Massachusetts", State Library of Massachusetts blog

[Manual-6] 1 2 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1888.

[Register2-7] 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1888" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

[gazette-8] 1 2 Andrew, George F. (1888). Official Gazette.

[black2010-9] Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905

[Papers-10] State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020

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