# 1875 Massachusetts legislature

The 96th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1875 during the governorship of William Gaston. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.
Notable legislation included an "Act To Provide For The Supervision Of The Construction And Maintenance Of Reservoirs And Dams."

## Senators

| Name | Date of birth | District |
| Moses O. Ayres | July 21, 1826 | 4th Worcester |
| J. White Belcher | November 14, 1823 | 3rd Norfolk |
| Richard Britton | 1838 | |
| Andrew Jackson Clark | 1835 | |
| Timothy John Dacey | 1849 | |
| George L. Davis | June 17, 1816 | |
| Francis Edson | 1823 | |
| Charles Fitz | 1806 | |
| Eustace Carey Fitz | 1833 | 1st Suffolk |
| Michael Joseph Flatley | 1823 | |
| Henry Fuller | 1825 | |
| Jeremiah Gatchell | 1834 | |
| Joseph Alfred Harwood | March 26, 1827 | |
| John Alexander Hawes | 1823 | |
| Ezra Coffin Howard | September 1, 1831 | |
| Ebenezer Atherton Hunt | January 26, 1826 | |
| Henry Stanley Hyde | August 18, 1837 | |
| Thomas Ingalls | 1824 | |
| Jonathan Jones | May 25, 1812 | |
| Jonathan A. Lane | 1822 | |
| William E. Livingston | June 25, 1832 | |
| George B. Loring | November 8, 1817 | |
| William Croade Lovering | February 25, 1835 | |
| Lysander John Orcutt | 1826 | |
| Albert Palmer | January 17, 1831 | |
| Ezra Parmenter | March 20, 1823 | |
| William H. Phillips | November 16, 1830 | |
| Henry W. Robinson | October 9, 1819 | |
| Christopher E. Rymes | September 27, 1827 | |
| Henry Smith | July 16, 1827 | |
| Charles H. B. Snow | August 7, 1822 | |
| Francis Dana Stedman | 1801 | |
| Thomas Newcomb Stone | 1818 | |
| Hugh James Toland | 1844 | |
| Washington Tufts | | |
| George F. Verry | July 14, 1826 | |
| Zenas Caldwell Wardwell | 1831 | |
| Tisdale Sanford White | 1809 | |
| Robert Rich Wiley | 1828 | |
| Ezra Dyer Winslow | 1839 | |

## Representatives

| Name | Date of birth |
| James Abbe | 1822 |
| Ebenezer Adams | 1830 |
| Samuel Allen | 1825 |
| Stephen Merrill Allen | 1819 |
| Andrew Athy | 1832 |
| Michael A. Atkinson | 1813 |
| John James Babson | 1809 |
| Amasa Winchester Bailey | 1820 |
| Daniel Danforth Bailey | 1834 |
| Cyrus Franklin Baker | 1831 |
| John Israel Baker | 1812 |
| Joseph Heaton Baker | 1820 |
| Giles Gould Barker | 1838 |
| Theodore Dwight Beach | 1821 |
| George Beal | 1824 |
| John Henry Bell | 1829 |
| William Harrison Bent | 1840 |
| James Bergin | 1825 |
| John Best | 1836 |
| John Charles Bickford | 1836 |
| John Henry Blake | 1831 |
| Stephen Francis Blaney | 1844 |
| William Edward Blunt | 1840 |
| Frederick Lincoln Bosworth | 1836 |
| Sylvester Warren Bowen | 1833 |
| Horace Leander Bowker | 1832 |
| Selwyn Zadock Bowman | May 11, 1840 |
| Reuben Boynton | 1815 |
| Osgood Bradley | 1836 |
| William Eustis Bridgman | 1836 |
| Wilbur Franklin Brigham | 1839 |
| William Ellery Bright | 1831 |
| Samuel Rhoden Brintnall | 1820 |
| Charles Morrill Brown | 1820 |
| Isaac Tucker Burr | 1828 |
| James Hazen Carleton | 1818 |
| Michael Carney | 1827 |
| William Carroll | 1838 |
| William Chase | 1817 |
| Gardner Asaph Churchill | 1839 |
| Isaiah Churchill | 1806 |
| Charles Russell Codman | 1829 |
| Abraham Burbank Coffin | 1831 |
| Patrick Collins | 1830 |
| Austin Henry Connell | 1846 |
| Owen Coogan | 1820 |
| Augustine Porter Cook | 1843 |
| Frederick Spaulding Coolidge | December 7, 1841 |
| Lowell Coolidge | 1819 |
| Alfred Minott Copeland | 1830 |
| Jeremiah William Coveney | 1840 |
| John Addison Cummings | 1838 |
| Benjamin Connor Currier | 1822 |
| Francis Chester Curtis | 1836 |
| William Derbyshire Curtis | 1843 |
| Levi Lincoln Cushing | 1825 |
| Benjamin Franklin Davis | 1837 |
| Epes Davis | 1799 |
| Jacob Winnie Davis | 1824 |
| Lewis Day | 1835 |
| Henry Dennis | 1827 |
| Neil Doherty | 1838 |
| Cornelius William Duggan | 1844 |
| James William Dwyer | 1845 |
| George Whitefield Dyer | 1836 |
| Edwin Ellis | 1823 |
| James Edward Estabrook | |
| John Brooks Fairbanks | 1822 |
| Luther Fisk | 1832 |
| Thomas Francis Fitzgerald | 1848 |
| Samuel Flower | 1815 |
| John David Flynn | 1842 |
| Alpheus Fobes | 1829 |
| Joseph Fobes | 1811 |
| William Frost | 1822 |
| Henry William Fuller | June 30, 1839 |
| Charles Lefevre Gardner | 1839 |
| Albert Warren Gaskill | 1831 |
| James Willis Gaylord | 1844 |
| William Miner Gaylord | 1821 |
| Emerson Geer | 1835 |
| Edward Eli Gibbs | 1836 |
| Benjamin Gifford | 1824 |
| Levi Lincoln Goodspeed | 1822 |
| Elbridge Henry Goss | 1830 |
| Charles Henry Green | January 11, 1842 |
| Daniel Gardner Green | 1817 |
| Thomas Thurston Griggs | 1818 |
| Dexter Grose | 1830 |
| Charles Hale | June 7, 1831 |
| Gayton Montgomery Hall | 1835 |
| George Hall | 1831 |
| Solomon Eldridge Hallett | 1833 |
| David Evans Harding | 1826 |
| William Ambrose Haskell | 1826 |
| Nicholas Hatheway | 1824 |
| George Haven | 1809 |
| Nathan Mortimer Hawkes | 1843 |
| George Heywood | 1826 |
| Moses Burpee Heywood | 1827 |
| Samuel Richardson Heywood | 1821 |
| James Edward Hill | 1838 |
| Joseph Warren Hill | 1837 |
| Beriah Tilton Hillman | 1843 |
| William Allen Hodges | 1834 |
| Elisha Everett Holbrook | 1835 |
| Amos Bradley Holden | 1823 |
| Henry Tolman Holmes | 1829 |
| Salmon Dutton Hood | 1830 |
| Daniel Parker Hopkinson | 1835 |
| Marius Milner Hovey | 1818 |
| William Brewster Howard | 1836 |
| Frederick George Howes | 1832 |
| Francis M. Hughes | 1845 |
| Simeon Alonzo Jacobs | 1835 |
| Henry Lyman James | 1829 |
| Edward Jonathan Johnson | 1832 |
| Thomas Johnson | 1824 |
| George Washington Jones | 1822 |
| Isaac Newton Keith | November 14, 1838 |
| Philo Keith | 1806 |
| William Keith | 1810 |
| Ziba Cary Keith | July 13, 1842 |
| Edward Kendall | 1822 |
| Moses Kimball | October 24, 1809 |
| William Sterling King | 1818 |
| George Parkman Kingsley | 1840 |
| Joel Knapp | 1835 |
| William Shadrach Knox | September 10, 1843 |
| Daniel Warren Lawrence | 1830 |
| John Burt Le Baron | 1817 |
| Benjamin Flint Leighton | 1820 |
| Daniel James Lewis | 1810 |
| George Tyler Lincoln | 1840 |
| Pliny Thurston Litchfield | 1827 |
| James Lovering Locke | 1832 |
| John Davis Long | October 27, 1838 |
| James Thomas Mahony | 1843 |
| John Bernard Martin | 1848 |
| William Martin | 1815 |
| Joseph Tinsley Massey | 1808 |
| Edward Selden May | 1809 |
| Samuel May | 1810 |
| James Athansius McDonald | 1842 |
| John Johnson McNutt | 1822 |
| William Branwell Merrill | 1827 |
| Clement Meserve | 1822 |
| Southard Harrison Miller | 1811 |
| Henry Sherman Miner | 1820 |
| Joseph Mitchell | 1809 |
| Franklin Gerrish Morris | 1841 |
| John Torrey Morse | 1840 |
| Frederick Pierce Moseley | 1826 |
| Willard Stanley Newhall | 1831 |
| George Lincoln Newton | 1841 |
| Edward Wolcott Noble | 1811 |
| Reuben Noble | 1820 |
| Daniel Noonan | 1834 |
| Isaac Newton Nutter | June 23, 1836 |
| Charles Stuart Osgood | 1839 |
| Harrison Davis Packard | 1840 |
| Joseph Frost Paul | 1824 |
| Charles Mason Peirce | 1823 |
| William Edward Perkins | 1838 |
| Charles Hiram Pew | 1842 |
| Willard Peele Phillips | 1825 |
| Stephen Cobb Phinney | 1829 |
| Edward L. Pierce | March 29, 1829 |
| James Pierce | 1837 |
| Thomas Fitzpatrick Plunkett | 1804 |
| Alanson Brown Pomeroy | 1842 |
| Richard Pope | 1843 |
| Isaac Pratt | 1814 |
| Willard Putnam | 1838 |
| Edward Benedict Rankin | 1846 |
| George Williams Reed | 1826 |
| Albert Edward Rice | 1845 |
| William Whitney Rice | March 7, 1826 |
| Thomas Rich | 1820 |
| Jonathan Cady Richmond | 1821 |
| John Lombard Robinson | 1835 |
| Joshua Crowell Robinson | 1834 |
| Wallace Fullum Robinson | 1832 |
| Charles Alvan Rogers | 1836 |
| Joseph Samuel Ropes | February 6, 1818 |
| Cyrus King Russell | 1815 |
| Nathaniel Johnson Rust | 1833 |
| John Stevens Ryder | 1822 |
| John Sanborn | 1799 |
| Edward Sanderson | 1829 |
| Charles Brigham Sanford | 1817 |
| John Eliot Sanford | November 22, 1830 |
| Cyrus Savage | September 2, 1832 |
| John Savery | 1815 |
| Ebenezer Sawyer | 1809 |
| Nathaniel Seaver | 1807 |
| John Mark Seeley | 1814 |
| Charles Luther Shaw | 1823 |
| Frederick Plummer Shaw | 1811 |
| Isaiah Atkins Small | 1825 |
| George Dillingham Smalley | 1824 |
| Abraham Howland Smith | 1833 |
| Albert Smith | 1823 |
| Edward F. Smith | 1835 |
| John Low Smith | 1837 |
| Edwin Adolphus Spaulding | 1832 |
| Richard Hall Stearns | December 25, 1824 |
| Isaac Stebbins | 1817 |
| Lafayette Stevens | 1824 |
| John Conant Stimpson | 1813 |
| Isaac Stone | 1822 |
| Charles Alfonso Fletcher Swan | 1830 |
| Daniel Joseph Sweeney | 1834 |
| Samuel Talbot | 1822 |
| Leonard Alden Thayer | 1834 |
| William Allen Thompson | 1810 |
| Daniel Holt Thurston | 1813 |
| Dexter Alley Tompkins | 1827 |
| George Howard Torrey | 1819 |
| Enoch Henry Towne | 1835 |
| Byron Truell | 1834 |
| Albert Jesse Trull | 1845 |
| Charles Russell Tucker | 1844 |
| Artemas Stanley Tyler | 1824 |
| Edmond Maxam Vincent | 1828 |
| Cranmore Nesmith Wallace | 1844 |
| George Milton Warren | 1832 |
| Austin Clark Wellington | 1840 |
| Joseph Wilder White | 1825 |
| Felix Grundy Whitney | 1818 |
| Wilbur Fisk Whitney | 1839 |
| Henry Munson Wilcox | 1843 |
| Ebenezer Crosby Willard | 1821 |
| Moses Williams | 1846 |
| William Winn | 1809 |
| Nathan Montgomery Wood | 1825 |
| John H. Woodbury | 1840 |
| William Woods | 1840 |
| Walter Wyman | 1806 |