DOI: 10.7910/dvn/qmgydl
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1902, H 608 rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Myrtice Arnold

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Abraham Lincoln legal holiday &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950549"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950549&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Leicester &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles H. Allen, Spencer; committee on rules; committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Myrtice Arnold&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harold Ashey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Esther R. Herman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jessie L. Starbard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Arthur Woodhead&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Agnes Cullen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eddie MacDonald&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emma B. Ackley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Milon G. Logan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Morrissey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Marshall Warren&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sadie Fitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Hanlon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gertrude Trainor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ethel Mariah Stevens&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Joseph Lahair&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Albena Bercume&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Moosett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elmer Hardy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Sullivan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bernice Marsh&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Philip Whittemore&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Annie Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lester Arnold&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Winnie Gay&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eddie Roach&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Hanlon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Michael Moylan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1901-03-26,1901-04-10,1902-02-25,1902-02-26 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on March 26, 1901 and referred to the committee on rules and received in the House on April 10, 1901 and referred to the next General Court and received in the House on February 25, 1902 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 26, 1902 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 440 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, referred, received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 222 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 211 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 7 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: the school children of the town of Leicester, The Center Grammar School of Leicester, Cherry Valley Grammar School, teacher, Rochdale Grammar, Greenville Grammar School, prin [principal], Cherry Valley Sub-Grammar School, Centre Sub Grammar School, Cherry Valley Intermediate School, grades IV and V, Mannville School, Pupils of Mt. Pleasant School, Rochdale Primary School, Centre Sub-Primary School of Leicester, Centre-Intermediate School of Leicester, Centre Primary School, Cherry Valley Primary School, [minors], [females], ["school children"] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: loving the name and memory of Abraham Lincoln &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1902, H 608 rejected &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.&lt;/p&gt;