# 1888 Massachusetts legislature

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.
Notable legislation included incorporation of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Woman Suffrage Association.

## Senators

| Name | Date of birth |
| 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 | Date of birth | District | Party |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | |