1891 Massachusetts legislature explained

112th Massachusetts General Court
Body:	General Court
Election:	November 4, 1890
Session1 End:	^[1]
Before:	111th
After:	113th
Chamber1:	Senate
Membership1:	40
Control1:	Republican
Chamber1 Leader1 Type:	President
Chamber1 Leader1:	Henry H. Sprague
Chamber2:	House
Membership2:	240
Control2:	Republican
Chamber2 Leader1 Type:	Speaker
Chamber2 Leader1:	William Emerson Barrett

The 112th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1891 during the governorship of William E. Russell. Henry H. Sprague served as president of the Senate and William Emerson Barrett served as speaker of the House.^[2]

Senators

image	name ^[3]	data-sort-type=date	date of birth	district
	Thomas Alden	August 17, 1827
	Joseph Bennett	May 26, 1840
	Joseph Mathias Bradley	August 18, 1852
	Arthur Butler Breed	June 30, 1857
	Benjamin F. Brickett	April 10, 1846
	Hiram Torrey Cady	January 17, 1843
	Frank E. Carpenter	August 29, 1851
	Arthur B. Champlin	February 7, 1858
	Wilder Philander Clark	October 12, 1832
	George P. Cooke	October 28, 1849
	John William Coveney	April 10, 1845
	James Donovan	May 28, 1859
	John E. Drury	May 11, 1852
	William N. Eaton	December 29, 1845
	B. Marvin Fernald	February 14, 1847
	Gorham D. Gilman	May 29, 1822
	Charles Haggerty	December 6, 1854
	Robert Howard	February 8, 1845
	Horace G. Kemp	August 19, 1849
	Henry Albert Kimball	May 3, 1842
	Aaron Low	August 11, 1833
	James W. McDonald	May 15, 1857
	William S. McNary	March 29, 1863
	Isaac Newton Nutter	June 23, 1836
	Alfred Stamm Pinkerton	March 19, 1856
	William Provin	February 14, 1842
	Francis Henry Raymond	February 19, 1836
	John Reade	December 1, 1826
	Frederick S. Risteen	August 28, 1840
	Morgan Rotch	April 8, 1848
	Cyrus Savage	September 2, 1832
	John Simpkins	June 27, 1862
	Sidney P. Smith	July 13, 1850
	Benjamin Franklin Southwick	July 5, 1835
	Henry H. Sprague	August 1, 1841
	William Stopford	February 22, 1848
	John R. Thayer	March 9, 1845
	George Makepeace Towle	August 27, 1841
	William H. West	January 27, 1830
	Edwin F. Wyer	September 28, 1832

Representatives

image	name	data-sort-type=date	date of birth	district
	Stephen Anderson	December 24, 1840
	Francis H. Appleton	June 17, 1847
	Edward A. Atkins	October 22, 1832
	James Lewis Austin	March 19, 1851
	Fitz J. Babson	February 14, 1828
	Charles M. Bacheller	June 29, 1863
	Charles H. Baker	February 2, 1847
	Harry H. Barrett	March 10, 1851
	Richard F. Barrett	August 4, 1848
	William Emerson Barrett	December 29, 1858
	Robert G. Bartlett	April 8, 1834
	Frank P. Bennett	May 2, 1853
	Zechariah L. Bicknell	June 20, 1820
	Ledyard Bill	1836
	Henry T. Bingham	March 9, 1839
	S. Stillman Blanchard	June 23, 1835
	Frederic Wright Bliss	October 14, 1852
	Charles H. Boodey	December 27, 1838
	Daniel F. Breen	June 7, 1860
	Elmer H. Bright	June 26, 1860
	Henry W. Britton	February 13, 1851
	Lemuel M. Brock	November 6, 1837
	Ethan Brooks	January 10, 1832
	James L. Brophy	November 14, 1852
	George H. Brown	September 3, 1838
	Herman Buchholz	November 23, 1839
	William P. Buckley	August 15, 1859
	Andrew J. Bucklin	February 23, 1829
	Henry Beecher Bullard	April 9, 1839
	Walter Jesse David Bullock	July 11, 1860
	James F. Burke	November 2, 1861
	William M. Butler	January 29, 1861
	Patrick Cannon	May 2, 1854
	William Cannon	November 15, 1829
	Robert P. Capen	May 6, 1824
	Erastus P. Carpenter	November 23, 1822
	George N. Carpenter	January 26, 1840
	Michael Carroll	July 11, 1849
	James H. Carter	November 16, 1832
	Richard A. Carter	February 16, 1862
	Charles J. Chance	December 19, 1857
	Salem D. Charles	March 19, 1850
	Dwight Chester	March 2, 1835
	Daniel R. Child	June 23, 1827
	James W. Clapp	July 30, 1842
	Hiram E. W. Clark	April 15, 1835
	Louis M. Clark	December 14, 1858
	George E. Clarke	October 30, 1822
	George S. Clough	May 2, 1839
	Clarence G. Coburn	January 15, 1850
	John H. Coffey	1860
	Morton E. Converse	November 17, 1837
	Myron L. Corbett	October 28, 1844
	Jeremiah J. Crowley	1852
	Francis C. Curtis	March 13, 1836
	Samuel N. Curtis	June 26, 1824
	John Morton Danforth	1840
	Squire S. Davis	November 3, 1852
	Frederick B. Day	March 20, 1843
	Henry S. Dewey	1856
	Henry S. Dickinson	September 26, 1863
	Perlie A. Dyar	March 26, 1857
	Nathan Edson	September 16, 1817
	Edward C. Ellis	May 30, 1848
	S. Hopkins Emery	August 22, 1815
	Charles S. Ensign	July 26, 1842
	John W. Fairbanks	October 12, 1843
	Nathan H. Fales	January 17, 1847
	James O. Fallon	March 16, 1840
	Thomas F. Fallon	December 7, 1857
	Isaac P. Fears	November 12, 1838
	Myron J. Ferren	August 16, 1836
	Elkanah Finney	October 31, 1849
	Charles T. Fletcher	March 23, 1826
	Charles W. Flint	May 3, 1827
	Nathan B. Flood	November 16, 1854
	Charles A. Frazer	July 4, 1852
	John A. Gale	November 24, 1848
	Benjamin Gammons	February 12, 1832
	Arthur H. Gardner	August 4, 1854
	Joseph J. Giles	March 24, 1842
	Frederick H. Gillett	October 16, 1851
	Edward A. Goddard	1845
	John Golding	1849
	David E. Gould	April 14, 1863
	Edward W. Greene	September 4, 1843
	Roger Haggerty	1846
	Henry Clay Hall	1838
	Aaron C. Handley	October 7, 1823
	Nathan F. Harding	November 3, 1843
	Charles H. Harriman	November 16, 1852
	James A. Hartshorn	February 24, 1856
	Edward J. Heffernan	November 4, 1858
	Patrick J. Heffernin	1856
	Augustus Hemenway	1853
	Charles W. Henderson	June 3, 1842
	Edward E. Herrod	November 4, 1857
	Thomas David Hevey	August 14, 1846
	Stephen A. Hickox	May 20, 1839
	Charles E. Hinckley	November 4, 1826
	John Franklin Hinds	May 1, 1819
	Charles H. Hobson	June 20, 1857
	William D. Hodges	March 9, 1854
	Everett S. Horton	June 15, 1836
	Squire E. Howard	May 15, 1840
	Timothy Howard	October 19, 1863
	Archibald M. Howe	May 20, 1848
	Edward C. Howe	August 9, 1847
	Simeon Augustus Howe	July 2, 1839
	Amos Hunting	April 12, 1835
	John T. Hurley	October 26, 1855
	Isaac P. Hutchinson	February 26, 1860
	Robert B. Jenkins	September 16, 1837
	Henry H. Johnson	March 24, 1840
	Myron H. Judd	October 19, 1848
	Thomas J. Keliher	October 13, 1858
	Charles Aloysius Kelly	April 7, 1858
	Parker J. Kemp	June 2, 1847
	John Kenrick Jr.	October 25, 1857
	Charles G. Keyes	October 19, 1832
	Frederick M. Kilmer	February 8, 1852
	John W. Kimball	February 27, 1828
	Albert C. Kirby	March 17, 1841
	Francis W. Kittredge	June 4, 1843
	George K. Knowlton	July 8, 1840
	James W. Knox	June 12, 1836
	Nathaniel W. Ladd	January 7, 1848
	James A. Lakin	1841
	Hiram B. Lane	August 17, 1824
	Howard G. Lane	December 15, 1850
	Henry W. Langdon	December 7, 1847
	Andrew M. Lanigan	July 10, 1860
	William B. Lawrence	November 15, 1856
	Horace G. Leslie	April 13, 1842
	James A. Lewis	May 20, 1834
	Joseph P. Lomasney	March 10, 1863
	Henry C. Longley	January 9, 1841
	Lucien Lord	October 11, 1840
	John C. Loud	July 26, 1844
	Patrick B. Luby	1859
	Haile R. Luther	February 7, 1838
	John B. Lynch	April 13, 1858
	Cornelius E. Mahoney	January 17, 1858
	Dudley J. Marston	July 21, 1843
	Ulysses Everett Mayhew	August 16, 1848
	Frank McAnally	November 29, 1855
	Daniel McCarthy	July 1, 1856
	Peter J. McDonald	May 3, 1860
	Thomas O. McEnaney	October 23, 1857
	Michael J. McEttrick	June 22, 1848
	Herbert A. McFarland	April 14, 1840
	John McFethries	1830
	George B. McKenna	August 31, 1857
	Isaac McLean	March 3, 1841
	John T. McLoughlin	June 2, 1865
	Jeremiah J. McNamara	December 5, 1864
	Richard F. McSolla	January 27, 1855
	William E. Meade	August 2, 1839
	James H. Mellen	November 7, 1845
	Michael J. Mitchell	July 29, 1855
	Hiram A. Monk	July 16, 1829
	William L. Mooney	February 16, 1867
	Charles Moore	June 13, 1831
	Louis E. P. Moreau	February 25, 1857
	Eugene Michael Moriarty	April 15, 1849
	Edward Mott	June 19, 1830
	Michael Joseph Murray	June 18, 1867
	Charles Baxter Newell	October 3, 1839
	Arthur F. Nutting	February 4, 1861
	John J. O'Brien	June 11, 1862
	John O'Brien	October 1, 1855
	Eugene J. O'Neil	February 29, 1856
	William H. Oakes	January 24, 1857
	James M. Olmstead	February 6, 1852
	James Orlando Parker	November 22, 1827
	Wellington Evarts Parkhurst	January 19, 1835
	Alonzo Penney	September 23, 1835
	George W. Perkins	July 1, 1842
	Benjamin F. Peterson	October 11, 1836
	Benjamin P. Pickering	February 22, 1844
	John M. Plummer	April 1, 1843
	John P. Pomeroy	August 26, 1836
	Wilbur Howard Powers	January 22, 1849
	Amasa Pratt	July 28, 1842
	Edward W. Presho	May 29, 1859
	John E. O. Prouty	March 8, 1840
	Josiah Quincy	October 15, 1859
	Patrick James Quinn	June 4, 1843
	Andrew J. Rady	May 1, 1853
	Patrick H. Raftery	July 17, 1856
	James Ramage	1836
	Franklin F. Read	June 14, 1827
	James Reid	March 5, 1824
	William H. Rice	1841
	Albert W. Richardson	August 28, 1854
	Arthur C. Richardson	October 31, 1837
	Malcolm E. Rideout	June 9, 1851
	Samuel E. Ripley	June 17, 1845
	Isaac Rosnosky	November 6, 1846
	John J. Salter	January 11, 1856
	Patrick J. Savage	February 26, 1863
	Samuel L. Sawyer	June 20, 1845
	Charles F. Shaw	November 28, 1840
	Ebenezer Shaw	August 24, 1825
	Charles S. Smith	December 16, 1828
	Elvin L. Smith	January 30, 1851
	William D. Sohier	October 22, 1858
	Henry C. Sparhawk	February 19, 1865
	Charles F. Sprague	June 10, 1857
	William H. Stearns	April 11, 1850
	William S. Stevens	June 13, 1859
	Michael F. Sullivan	September 21, 1859
	George N. Swallow	January 2, 1854
	Henry Gordon Taft	1836
	Harrison O. Thomas	June 28, 1840
	Edwin D. Thompson	August 26, 1848
	Lysander Thurston	May 25, 1837
	Edwin A. Tibbetts	April 24, 1840
	Charles A. Tilden	March 23, 1835
	Frank B. Tilton	March 15, 1840
	George F. Tucker	January 19, 1852
	Charles W. Turner	June 28, 1828
	Henry Edward Turner	May 4, 1842
	William H. H. Tuttle	August 17, 1845
	Jacob Otis Wardwell	March 14, 1857
	Bentley W. Warren	April 20, 1864
	Eben C. Waterman	March 1, 1840
	Thomas Weston	September 23, 1826
	Barney T. Wetherell	1822
	Henry C. Wheaton	May 25, 1839
	Franklin B. White	1837
	Edwin Whitney	November 1, 1835
	Fred N. Wier	July 4, 1861
	Aaron O. Wilder	August 4, 1833
	Hezekiah W. Williams	May 16, 1833
	William Power Wilson	November 15, 1852
	Nathan N. Withington	March 9, 1828
	Benjamin Herbert Woodsum	October 4, 1857
	Charles F. Worcester	February 25, 1859
	William J. Wright	1846

See also

• 52nd United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

Further reading

• Book: Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1891 . Massachusetts: Legislative Session . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015053690445?urlappend=%3Bseq=532 . . D. Appleton and Company . New York . 1892 . 28 v . 2027/mdp.39015053690445?urlappend=%3Bseq=532 .
• Nativity and Occupation of Members of the Massachusetts Legislature . F. H. Howland . Publications of the American Statistical Association . 4 . 1894 . 25/26 . 15–19 . 10.2307/2276368 . 2276368 . 158804164 . (describes 1847–1891)

Notes and References

1. Book: https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge00mass2/page/348/mode/1up . 2009 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Manual for the Use of the General Court . Length of Legislative Sessions . 348+ .
2. Book: https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge00mass2/page/340/mode/2up . 2009 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Manual for the Use of the General Court . Organization of the Legislature Since 1780 . 340+ .
3. Book: Manual for the Use of the General Court . 1891 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Internet Archive .