1889 Massachusetts legislature

The 110th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1889 during the governorship of Oliver Ames. Harris C. Hartwell served as president of the Senate and William Emerson Barrett served as speaker of the House.^[4]

110th Massachusetts General Court
← 109th 111th →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 6, 1888
Senate
Members	40
President	Harris C. Hartwell
Party control	Republican[1]
House
Members	240
Speaker	William Emerson Barrett
Party control	Republican[2]
Sessions
1st January 2, 1889 (1889-01-02) – June 7, 1889 (1889-06-07)[3]

Harris Hartwell, Senate president.

William Barrett, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1889.

When in session at the state house in Boston, a few of the legislators stayed overnight in Adams House, the American House, Hotel Brunswick, Norfolk House, Quincy House, Richwood House, or the United States Hotel.^[5]

Senators

Image	Name[5]	Date of birth[6]	District	Party
	Edwin Baker	January 18, 1843
	Benjamin F. Campbell	September 12, 1834
	William Alfred Clark	1852
	John Aloysius Collins	1860
	Benjamin Franklin Cook	1833
	Thomas Washburn Cook	September 15, 1837
	John Crawford Crosby	June 15, 1859
	William Nathaniel Davenport	November 3, 1856
	Edward Joseph Donovan	March 15, 1864
	James Donovan	May 28, 1859
	James Fisher Dwinell	July 23, 1825
	Alonzo Hathaway Evans	February 24, 1820
	Alfred Swift Fassett	December 5, 1848
	David Fisk	May 6, 1838
	George Washington Gibson	1851
	Jubal Converse Gleason	1837
	Daniel Gunn	1850
	James H. Harlow	September 11, 1814
	Harris Cowdrey Hartwell	1847
	Edward Jacob Hathorne	1854
	Henry Joseph Hosmer	February 2, 1832
	Robert Howard	February 8, 1845
	Frank W. Howe	June 3, 1859
	Thomas F. Hunt	October 27, 1854
	Chester Ward Kingsley	1824
	Austin Messinger	1817
	Edwin Dickinson Metcalf	March 14, 1848
	Edward F. O'Sullivan	June 23, 1858
	Moses Poore Palmer	1830
	Henry Langdon Parker	October 7, 1834
	James Davis Pike	1829
	Edwin Lake Pilsbury	1850
	Henry Harrison Sprague	August 1, 1841
	Charles E. Stevens	April 21, 1843
	James Trimble Stevens	1835
	Charles Henry Symonds	1857
	Enos Houghton Tucker	1817
	David Walker	1841
	Silas Mandeville Wheelock	1818
	Levi Lincoln Whitney	1838

Representatives

image	Name[5]	Date of birth[6]	District	Party
	Warren W. Adams	December 11, 1844
	John Albree	March 14, 1829
	Jared F. Alden	April 18, 1836
	Thomas Alden	August 17, 1827
	Montressor Tyler Allen	1844
	Richard B. Allen	January 25, 1859
	Horace H. Atherton	October 23, 1847	20th
	Ralph L. Atherton	June 30, 1842
	Harrison Henry Atwood	August 26, 1863
	George Ayres	August 26, 1833
	Rollin Herbert Babbitt	1840
	Lewis M. Bancroft	December 31, 1851
	Thomas E. Barker	March 13, 1839
	Franklin O. Barnes	November 11, 1841
	William Emerson Barrett	December 29, 1858
	Richard M. Barry	June 5, 1863
	Walter P. Beck	January 20, 1850
	Charles H. Bennett	March 11, 1843
	John O. Bennett	November 8, 1838
	Francis T. Berry	August 18, 1849
	Thomas W. Bicknell	September 6, 1834
	Alden M. Bigelow	March 28, 1848
	Charles Chauncey Bixby	1824
	George Bliss	November 20, 1844
	Percival Blodgett	July 18, 1841
	Andreas Blume	1837
	Nelson F. Bond	January 9, 1839
	J. Dean Bonney	January 28, 1831
	John Bennett Bottum
	Joshua L. D. Bowerman
	Robert H. Bowman	September 26, 1855
	Peter Joseph Brady	October 29, 1861
	Edward Winslow Brewer	1858
	Charles K. Brewster	June 11, 1843
	Asa Olin Brooks	1852
	Horace Brooks	July 22, 1835
	William Henry Brooks	January 11, 1831
	Edward F. Brown	July 11, 1843
	Orland J. Brown	February 2, 1848
	John H. Burgess	November 25, 1852
	James J. Burke	March 4, 1862
	Charles Amos Call	1839
	Joseph Henry Cannell	1836
	George N. Carpenter	January 26, 1840
	Peter Thomas Carroll	1857
	Charles Ernest Carter	June 1, 1850
	Joseph Pike Cheney	1843
	Moses Davis Church	1842
	Horace E. Clayton	1854
	George L. Clemence	February 17, 1852
	Nelson B. Conant	December 6, 1845
	Thomas H. Connell	September 18, 1849
	David Conwell	1818
	Louis A. Cook	May 4, 1847
	John William Coveney	April 10, 1845
	Robert Bruce Crane	1845
	James Martin Cronin	1857
	Joshua Crowell	1841
	John H. Crowley	August 20, 1858
	Francis C. Curtis	March 13, 1836
	Nahum Sawin Cutler	April 7, 1837
	George W. Cutting	November 18, 1834
	Frank William Dallinger	June 5, 1852
	Luther Dame	March 3, 1826
	Epes Davis	March 14, 1824
	Joshua H. Davis	November 3, 1814
	Thomas Haven Dearing	October 25, 1826
	Jeremiah Desmond	May 2, 1853
	Henry S. Dewey	1856
	Simeon Dodge, Jr.	February 23, 1840
	William S. Douglas	April 5, 1836
	Hugo A. Dubuque	November 3, 1854
	Thomas H. Duggan	March 11, 1848
	Lyman R. Eddy	March 21, 1837
	John Edwards	December 23, 1852
	George D. Eldredge	December 17, 1858
	Albert R. Eldridge	September 10, 1850
	Thomas George Farren	1858
	Myron J. Ferren	August 16, 1836
	William F. Ferry	July 4, 1854
	Charles N. Foote	December 14, 1848
	Jacob Fottler	1839
	Henry Frost	1832
	Charles B. Gardiner	June 19, 1849
	Michael J. Garvey	May 27, 1859
	Theodore Giddings	December 5, 1837
	John F. Gillespie	April 18, 1855
	Gorham D. Gilman	May 29, 1822
	Thomas K. Gilman	August 11, 1842
	Edward B. Glasgow
	William Gordon	1825
	John B. Gould	November 29, 1820
	Samuel Levis Gracey	1835
	Charles Grant, Jr.	June 26, 1844
	Robert S. Gray	September 28, 1847
	Abner Greenwood	September 10, 1826
	William M. Hale	June 26, 1820
	Henry D. Hamilton	June 22, 1848
	Charles H. Hanson	July 7, 1844
	Z. Taylor Harrington	November 14, 1848
	Robert O. Harris	November 8, 1854
	James W. Harvey	April 10, 1844
	Phineas W. Haseltine	May 15, 1846
	Forbes P. Haskell	April 6, 1844
	Elihu B. Hayes	April 26, 1848
	Robert Henry	1833
	John E. Heslan	November 11, 1854
	John Hildreth	October 18, 1851
	William Southerland Hixon	1848
	John D. Holbrook	October 6, 1843
	Langdon H. Holder	March 10, 1846
	Frank E. Holman	August 8, 1853
	John F. Howard	March 24, 1843
	Herbert W. Howe	December 17, 1842
	Charles Howes	December 14, 1833
	Willard Howland	December 3, 1852
	John F. Hutchinson	January 6, 1856
	Henry H. Johnson	March 24, 1840
	Jeremiah Joseph Keane	1855
	Thomas J. Keliher	October 13, 1858
	Horace G. Kemp	August 19, 1849
	David B. Kempton	April 25, 1818
	Patrick Joseph Kennedy	January 14, 1858
	John White Kimball	February 27, 1828
	Henry Albert Kimball	May 3, 1842
	Rufus Kimball	March 13, 1829
	Francis W. Kittredge	June 4, 1843
	James Lally	1862
	Hiram B. Lane	August 17, 1824
	Andrew Berkley Lattimore[7]	August 4, 1852
	William W. Leach	February 22, 1856
	Edward Joseph Leary	May 27, 1860
	James D. Lincoln	1823
	Stephen S. Littlefield	August 8, 1848
	Clarence Parker Lovell	1848
	John Macfarlane	June 11, 1841
	James Pope Martin	1827
	Samuel Walker McCall	February 28, 1851
	Thomas McCooey	1851
	Peter J. McDonald	May 3, 1860
	John H. McDonough	March 29, 1857
	John James McDonough	March 15, 1857
	Thomas O. McEnaney	October 23, 1857
	Michael Joseph McEttrick	June 22, 1848
	Daniel McLaughlin	1847
	William S. McNary	March 29, 1863
	Albert Mead	April 23, 1830
	Robert F. Means	August 22, 1838
	James H. Mellen	November 7, 1845
	Noah F. Mendall	May 2, 1836
	John Flint Merrill	January 16, 1849
	Albert E. Miller	1834
	Henry S. Milton	September 28, 1855
	William Henry Monahan	1857
	Michael J. Moore	September 23, 1863
	Frank Morison	March 18, 1844
	I. Porter Morse	April 10, 1861
	William H. Murphy	December 18, 1855
	Albert H. Newhall	December 25, 1834
	Edward M. Nichols	August 22, 1848
	William H. Nichols	October 6, 1846
	Joseph Nolan	April 27, 1860
	John Henry Norcross	October 20, 1841
	John William O'Mealey	1861
	John William O'Neil	1859
	Henry P. Oakman	June 27, 1831
	John B. Packard	February 22, 1837
	Frank E. Paige	March 22, 1859
	Oren B. Parks	December 28, 1846
	Joseph A. Patridge	January 3, 1830
	George Arthur Perkins	1856
	Charles Perry	May 31, 1840
	Charles Quincy Pierce	1841
	John N. Pierce	December 8, 1833
	Baxter P. Pike	February 22, 1845
	Omer Pillsbury	November 15, 1853
	Alfred Stamm Pinkerton	March 19, 1856
	John Wallace Plaisted	1828
	Charles French Porter	January 16, 1836
	Lurin J. Potter	June 6, 1846
	Harvey Hunter Pratt	1860
	William Henry Preble	1856
	John Jacob Prevaux	March 16, 1857
	Ellis B. Purrington	January 31, 1831
	Charles C. Putnam	May 28, 1844
	Francis Winnie Qua	1845
	Dennis Joseph Quinn	1861
	Francis Henry Raymond	February 19, 1836
	George A. Reed	September 10, 1842
	James Henry Richards	1839
	Albert E. Richmond	September 23, 1819
	Thomas Riley	December 22, 1843
	John B. Ripley	July 8, 1849
	William R. Rowell	March 19, 1844
	Charles Parks Rugg	1827
	Irving Levi Russell	1852
	Stillman Russell	December 11, 1836
	Chester Franklin Sanger	1858
	George P. Sanger	September 6, 1852
	Edward Payson Shaw	September 1, 1841
	Charles H. Shepard	October 19, 1842
	George A. Shepard	December 23, 1820
	Everett F. Sherman	1826
	George Wing Slocum	1818
	Winfield Scott Slocum	1848
	Anthony Smalley	March 15, 1836
	Henry O. Smith	September 15, 1839
	Thomas Snow	March 16, 1854
	William D. Sohier	October 22, 1858
	Charles Edward Spring	1841
	William B. Sprout	1859
	John H. Stafford	November 16, 1841
	Stephen Stanley	June 11, 1842
	George C. Stearns	February 12, 1854
	Daniel Philmore Stimpson	1818
	Martin L. Stover	October 22, 1837
	Edward Sullivan	August 14, 1844
	John H. Sullivan	June 24, 1850
	Michael F. Sullivan	September 21, 1859
	George N. Swallow	January 2, 1854
	Edgar Sidney Taft	June 30, 1853
	Rufus Albert Thayer	1839
	Albert Cranston Thompson	1843
	Isaac Brownell Tompkins	August 17, 1826
	Peletiah R. Tripp	August 15, 1842
	Henry Edward Turner	May 4, 1842
	Abijah Tyler Wales	1833
	Jacob Otis Wardwell	March 14, 1857
	William Leonard White	1843
	Charles M. Wilcox	August 13, 1861
	John H. Wilkins	October 14, 1832
	Charles Thomas Witt	July 18, 1848
	Samuel Wood	February 13, 1831
	Charles Francis Woodward	November 19, 1852
	Ira A. Worth	October 23, 1828
	William A. Wyckoff	April 30, 1838
	Ferdinand Adolphus Wyman	1850

See also

• 51st United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References

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
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. Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1889.
6. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1889" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
7. Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905

Further reading

• Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1889 – via Google Books
• "Massachusetts: Legislative Session". Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1889. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1890.

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1889, hdl:2452/619078
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1889, hdl:2452/83195