1898 Massachusetts legislature explained

119th Massachusetts General Court
Body:	General Court
Election:	November 2, 1897
Session1 End:	^[1]
Before:	118th
After:	120th
Chamber1:	Senate
Membership1:	40
Control1:	Republican (33–7)
Chamber1 Leader1 Type:	President
Chamber1 Leader1:	George Edwin Smith
Chamber2:	House
Membership2:	240
Control2:	Republican (181–57)
Chamber2 Leader1 Type:	Speaker
Chamber2 Leader1:	John L. Bates

The 119th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1898 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George Edwin Smith served as president of the Senate and John L. Bates served as speaker of the House.^[2]

Senators

Image	Name ^[3]	data-sort-type=date	Date of Birth	District
	Charles O. Bailey	January 24, 1863
	Harding R. Barber	December 20, 1839
	Josiah C. Bennett	May 6, 1835
	William R. Black	August 23, 1830
	Walter L. Bouve	October 28, 1849
	William Hartwell Brigham	February 1, 1863
	Loyed E. Chamberlain	January 30, 1857
	William H. Cook	January 7, 1843
	Ellery B. Crane	November 12, 1836
	Frederick W. Dallinger	October 2, 1871
	William W. Davis	August 8, 1862
	Wilson H. Fairbank	April 3, 1836
	Joseph Byron Farley	October 10, 1847
	James H. Flint	June 25, 1852
	Joseph J. Flynn	May 1, 1862
	Charles E. Folsom	February 24, 1855
	James A. Gallivan	October 22, 1866
	John Dennis Hammond Gauss	January 4, 1861
	Samuel Wesley George	April 26, 1862
	Albert L. Harwood	September 10, 1847
	James E. Hayes	August 10, 1865
	William H. Hodgkins	June 9, 1840
	Joshua B. Holden	March 5, 1850
	Richard William Irwin	February 18, 1857
	William W. Leach	February 22, 1856
	William B. Mahoney	December 5, 1857
	William Moran	September 6, 1855
	William A. Morse	July 27, 1863
	Henry Parsons	February 2, 1842
	George E. Putnam	February 9, 1851
	Charles I. Quirk	August 15, 1871
	Ernest W. Roberts	November 22, 1858
	Alfred Seelye Roe	June 8, 1844
	Daniel D. Rourke	July 16, 1869
	George Edwin Smith	April 5, 1849
	Rufus Albertson Soule	1839
	William W. Towle	August 21, 1860
	William A. Whittlesey	February 21, 1849
	Fred Homer Williams	January 7, 1857
	Charles F. Woodward	November 19, 1852

Representatives

image	name	data-sort-type=date	date of birth	district
	Austin Flint Adams	July 15, 1840
	Rollin M. Allen	April 10, 1862
	Romeo E. Allen	October 17, 1852
	S. Augustus Allen	February 14, 1855
	Butler Ames	August 22, 1871
	Richard F. Andrews, Jr	April 13, 1863
	Julius C. Anthony	September 24, 1856
	Albert S. Apsey	November 27, 1870
	Henry C. Attwill	March 11, 1872
	Thomas C. Bachelder	November 6, 1860
	George Balcom	January 23, 1832
	John E. Baldwin	June 26, 1869
	Frank W. Barnard	January 3, 1853
	George H. Bartlett	September 6, 1857
	Jonathan B. L. Bartlett	October 11, 1849
	John L. Bates	September 18, 1859
	David W. Battles	January 20, 1854
	Charles O. Beede	December 29, 1840
	Henry A. Belcher	August 6, 1845
	George E. Bemis	October 23, 1855
	Frank P. Bennett	May 2, 1853
	Scott F. Bickford	November 14, 1864
	Horatio Bisbee	November 20, 1833
	Osgood C. Blaney	January 20, 1860
	John Bleiler	May 9, 1837
	Henry H. Bosworth	March 16, 1868
	Jerome Bottomly	August 14, 1842
	Harvey L. Boutwell	April 5, 1860
	Warren Boynton	July 17, 1836
	Melvin L. Breath	December 7, 1858
	Hugh W. Bresnahan	November 25, 1869
	William Bridgeo	October 14, 1849
	Oscar T. Brooks	June 6, 1839
	Charles E. Brown	November 18, 1850
	William J. Bullock	January 31, 1864
	Albert H. Burgess	May 19, 1843
	Edward B. Callender	February 23, 1851
	Andrew Campbell	May 3, 1826
	James F. Carberry	September 18, 1868
	George Henry Carleton	August 6, 1840
	Leonard B. Chandler	August 29, 1851
	William D. Chapple	August 6, 1868
	James B. Clancy	May 26, 1868
	Albert Clarke	October 13, 1840
	Charles S. Clerke	January 10, 1850
	James M. Codman, Jr.	April 20, 1862
	Samuel Cole	December 15, 1856
	John W. Connelly	July 16, 1874
	Thomas A. Conroy	September 9, 1869
	Walter S. V. Cooke	August 12, 1851
	Daniel S. Coolidge	September 21, 1845
	George W. Coombs	November 4, 1837
	Fred E. Crawford	July 7, 1857
	Thomas W. Crocker	December 27, 1832
	Alfred R. Crosby	August 30, 1838
	Henry V. Crosby	February 27, 1832
	Charles S. Crouch	1833
	Richard Cullinane	February 2, 1859
	William Curtis	August 8, 1857
	J. Frank Dalton	April 19, 1842
	Daniel W. Davis	October 3, 1846
	William Ripley Davis	March 8, 1862
	Charles Austin Dean	March 26, 1856
	Charles Leroy Dean	May 29, 1844
	Thomas M. Denham	February 2, 1840
	Thomas Donahue	August 20, 1853
	Eugene E. Donovan	November 21, 1858
	Thomas J. Dooling	January 28, 1868
	Frederic P. Drake	March 16, 1851
	Henry J. Draper	March 4, 1859
	Daniel J. Driscoll, 2d	November 20, 1868
	Hugo A. Dubuque	November 3, 1854
	John B. Dumond	December 25, 1862
	Daniel England	July 1, 1868
	Eugene B. Estes	December 7, 1850
	Frank W. Estey	December 16, 1866
	Frank H. Farmer	October 13, 1857
	Francis F. Farrar	January 10, 1833
	John Favor	March 1, 1859
	Asa B. Fay	August 31, 1838
	John J. Feneno	March 24, 1866
	W. T. A. Fitzgerald	December 19, 1871
	Albert T. Folsom	November 9, 1831
	Harry C. Foster	August 27, 1871
	Frank W. Francis	September 16, 1857
	George G. Frederick	January 14, 1867
	George F. Fuller	March 8, 1842
	Michael E. Gaddis	February 21, 1869
	Richard W. Garrity	March 14, 1864
	John J. Gartland	November 27, 1871
	Henry E. Gaylord	June 5, 1846
	Moses D. Gilman	May 23, 1846
	David J. Gleason	July 14, 1864
	Otis M. Gove	May 3, 1851
	Oliver S. Grant	April 30, 1866
	James Wilson Grimes	November 21, 1865
	Almon E. Hall	December 6, 1846
	Amos E. Hall	July 6, 1838
	Luther Hall	November 5, 1842
	Frederick Hammond	February 27, 1847
	Franklin P. Harlow
	George F. Harwood	July 7, 1844
	Leander Miller Haskins	June 20, 1842
	Martin E. Hawes	October 25, 1834
	Alfred S. Hayes	May 14, 1869
	William Henry Irving Hayes	June 21, 1848
	Albert F. Hayward	January 24, 1840
	Ashton E. Hemphill	September 17, 1849
	John W. Hill	July 1, 1846
	Albert F. Hiscox	May 9, 1852
	Charles E. Hoag	September 18, 1849
	Seba A. Holton	August 30, 1847
	Francis J. Horgan	July 2, 1869
	Carleton F. How	April 20, 1863
	Walter F. Howard	September 20, 1855
	Rufus Howe	September 28, 1837
	Edward H. Hoyt	July 11, 1849
	Franklin E. Huntress	April 19, 1866
	Charles Hiller Innes	August 6, 1870
	Charles R. Johnson	December 28, 1852
	George R. Jones	February 8, 1862
	Melville D. Jones	September 25, 1842
	Michael Bernard Jones	August 20, 1864
	William A. Josselyn	February 8, 1856
	Joseph H. Joubert	April 6, 1860
	Daniel Joseph Kane	April 14, 1872
	Charles P. Keith	March 14, 1843
	William Kells, Jr.	October 23, 1861
	John L. Kelly	March 29, 1869
	Thomas W. Kenefick	September 17, 1855
	Daniel J. Kiley	July 27, 1874
	Arthur D. King	May 13, 1843
	Randolph V. King	January 20, 1853
	William S. Kyle	July 12, 1851
	William A. Lang	May 26, 1836
	Addison P. Learoyd	February 11, 1838
	Francis Leland	October 3, 1839
	Charles Dudley Lewis	September 26, 1844
	John F. Libby	February 3, 1863
	Alexander Lockhart	December 22, 1854
	Albert W. Lyon	March 1, 1869
	Luke J. Macken	October 27, 1868
	Thomas Mackey	August 6, 1865
	John E. Magenis	May 5, 1873
	David A. Mahoney	December 21, 1867
	William E. Mahoney	May 15, 1872
	William H. Marden	May 30, 1843
	Benjamin W. Mayo	April 17, 1836
	Jeremiah Justin McCarthy	March 29, 1852
	Levi G. McKnight	April 30, 1843
	William I. McLoughlin	January 16, 1872
	John A. McManus	March 9, 1860
	George F. Mead	May 22, 1854
	Thomas H. Meek	January 30, 1840
	George W. Mellen	May 11, 1837
	William J. Miller	June 8, 1867
	Charles P. Mills	August 22, 1853
	James A. Montgomery	May 17, 1864
	Andrew H. Morrison	June 27, 1871
	William L. Morse	May 1, 1849
	James J. Myers	November 20, 1842
	William A. Nettleton	1832
	Edward B. Nevin	November 10, 1858
	Thaddeus H. Newcomb	March 15, 1826
	William N. Newcomb	July 23, 1865
	H. Heustis Newton	December 2, 1860
	T. Frank Noonan	June 1, 1860
	George H. Norton	May 28, 1863
	James O'Connor	June 15, 1862
	Charles E. Parker	October 20, 1833
	Harold Parker	June 17, 1854
	Herbert C. Parsons	January 15, 1862
	Alexander Sinclair Paton	November 20, 1854
	Joseph E. Pattee	April 24, 1843
	Francis C. Perry	June 27, 1853
	Lemuel W. Peters	July 29, 1860
	Joseph M. Philbrick	November 20, 1869
	Franklin F. Phillips	December 21, 1852
	Edward L. Pickard	December 25, 1834
	John H. Ponce	November 1, 1857
	Albert Poor	November 21, 1853
	Burrill Porter	February 22, 1832
	John A. Powers	September 15, 1853
	David G. Pratt	November 7, 1848
	James P. Ramsay	April 30, 1861
	Charles H. Ramsdell	September 26, 1840
	Silas Dean Reed	June 25, 1872
	George M. Rice	October 20, 1843
	Frank S. Richardson	October 18, 1856
	Leonard W. Ross	October 5, 1856
	Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865
	John A. Rowan	November 9, 1872
	Edward T. Rowell	1836
	Michael L. Russell	December 15, 1860
	Charles R. Saunders	November 22, 1862
	Thomas D. Sears	February 22, 1845
	James F. Seavey	December 6, 1842
	George Shepley Selfridge	September 25, 1868
	William H. Severance	January 12, 1857
	John F. Sheehan	September 2, 1861
	Robert S. Sisson	June 4, 1846
	William E. Skillings	October 23, 1843
	John O. Slocum	March 13, 1842
	George B. Smart	February 25, 1835
	Harvey C. Smith	November 20, 1847
	Andrew R. Snow	May 4, 1844
	Hugh L. Stalker	December 31, 1857
	Benjamin F. Stanley	November 6, 1823
	Nathaniel G. Staples	June 1, 1851
	Marcus M. Stebbins	December 29, 1840
	John M. Stevenson	August 31, 1846
	Joseph I. Stewart	April 25, 1847
	Willmore B. Stone	June 24, 1853
	Cornelius F. Sullivan	June 15, 1865
	Arthur R. Taft	February 19, 1859
	Peter Francis Tague	June 4, 1871
	Zephaniah Talbot	June 22, 1834
	James Thompson	May 18, 1848
	Charles W. Tilton	April 6, 1836
	Charles E. Trow	April 18, 1833
	Samuel A. Tuttle	September 11, 1837
	Edmund J. Twomey	July 16, 1860
	J. Gilman Waite	March 20, 1837
	Charles G. Washburn	January 28, 1857
	Eben C. Waterman	March 1, 1840
	Abelard E. Wells	June 17, 1854
	Edward E. Wentworth	June 27, 1845
	George W. Whidden	June 15, 1858
	John Jay Whipple	December 31, 1847
	Elbridge J. Whitaker	November 11, 1859
	Frank H. Whitcomb	January 7, 1838
	George L. Whitcomb	March 18, 1855
	Horace C. White	January 26, 1836
	James Whitehead	December 20, 1857
	Edward E. Willard	September 25, 1862
	Appleton P. Williams	January 28, 1867
	George F. Williams	April 28, 1856
	Francis O. Winslow	March 20, 1844
	Alva S. Wood	May 12, 1828

See also

• 55th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

Further reading

• Book: Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1898 . 1898 . A. M. Bridgman . Stoughton, Massachusetts .
• Book: Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1898 . Massachusetts: Legislative Session . https://archive.org/details/s3appletonsannu03newyuoft/page/424/mode/1up . D. Appleton and Company . New York . 1899 .
• (includes 1898 Massachusetts info)

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 . 1898 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Internet Archive .