Kappa Delta Phi (ΚΔΦ) is a college general men's fraternity that was founded on April 14, 1900 at the Bridgewater Normal School, now known as Bridgewater State University. The fraternity currently boasts 11 active chapters. They have a sorority by the same name, Kappa Delta Phi National Affiliated Sorority.
Samuel Eliot was a historian, educator, and public-minded citizen of Boston, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut.
Willfred Weymouth Lufkin was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.
Augustus Pearl Martin was an American politician and soldier from Massachusetts who served as the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884. He also was a leading artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was the leader of the state's Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He also served as a general in the postbellum state militia.
Alexander De Witt was a 19th-century American politician from the state of Massachusetts.
Charles Franklin Sprague was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, grandson of Peleg Sprague (1793–1880).
Samuel Hurd Walley was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as a member of the U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
William Franklin Draper was an American businessman, industrialist, and soldier who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Eben Francis Stone was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Frederick Octavius Prince was an American lawyer, politician, and mayor of Boston, Massachusetts.
John Sherburne Sleeper (1794–1878) was an American sailor, ship master, novelist, journalist and politician.
John Richard Baldwin was a Massachusetts politician who served in the Massachusetts State Senate and as the 20th Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
Samuel Lancaster Gerry (1813–1891) was an artist in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He painted portraits and also landscapes of the White Mountains and other locales in New England. He was affiliated with the New England Art Union, and the Boston Artists' Association. In 1857 he co-founded the Boston Art Club.
The Essex Institute (1848–1992) in Salem, Massachusetts, was "a literary, historical and scientific society." It maintained a museum, library, historic houses; arranged educational programs; and issued numerous scholarly publications. In 1992 the institute merged with the Peabody Museum of Salem to form the Peabody Essex Museum.
Charles Kirk Kirby, was an American architect who practiced in Massachusetts, Maine, and California.
Lewis J. Powers was an American businessman and politician who served in both branches of the city council and as the 15th Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts from 1879 to 1880.
Edward Hyde "Ned" Rice was an American academic who led many institutions of secondary education in Massachusetts.
Gubernatorial elections were held in Massachusetts on November 5, 1878.
Gubernatorial elections were held in Massachusetts on November 2, 1880.
