DOI: 10.7910/dvn/sygm0q
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1890, referred to next General Court, SC1/series 231, Petition of George H. Inness

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Monument to Major General Joseph Hooker &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763653"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763653&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Massachusetts &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Edward J. Donovan, Suffolk &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;George H. Inness&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry C. Hall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Priest&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles D. Stiles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas F. Ryan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Cook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles A. Lambert&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles C. Perkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Walter E. Swan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James A. Gallivan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John J. Toomey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James J. Maloney&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John McDonough&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hiram A. Wright&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John L. Swift&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Donovan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Clifford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Lord&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel O'Neill&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Roach&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Gleason&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles E. Cunningham&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Walsh&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Donovan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fred Alletzhausser&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1890-06-12 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on June 12, 1890 and referred to next General Court &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 275 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 275 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens of the Republic and residents of Boston and vicinity, ["others"] &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;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: that an equestrian statue of the late Major General Joseph Hooker be erected at the expense of the commonwealth in the city of Boston, Old Bay State, Fighting Joe, glorious eleventh, Newburyport, West Point, military, soldiers, veterans, Cambridge, Mexican War, Army of the Potomac, battle above the clouds, memorial, bronze, Civil War, Virginia, confederate soldiers, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, includes images, newspaper, printed text, Grand Army of the Republic, written copy of an editorial from June 1, 1890 Boston Sunday Democrat, Tremont Temple, Memorial Day, Burnside, Mead, Daniel E. Sickles, third corps, white diamond, blood stained bullet ridden battle torn flags in Doric Hall, McClellan, Malvern Hill, South Mountain, Antietam, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill, White Oak Swamp, Savage Station, Virginia, Heintzelman, Sumner, Phil Kearney, Fitz John Porter, Grant, Sheridan, Farragut, statues, Lookout Mountain, boys in blue, old third army corps, Hooker's Day, modern Athens, Bunker Hill, Revolutionary War, Warren, Philadelphia, Little Mac, Gettysburg, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, Maine, military service, soldiers, veterans, infantry, calvary, city hall, seaman, navy, regiments, volunteers, artillery, signal corps, M.D., doctor, Henry Cabot Lodge, includes two texts, addresses, occupations, titles and rankings from Civil War, towns next to names including Boston, Waltham, Jamaica Plain, South Boston, West Medford, Cambridge, East Boston, Melrose, Lawrence, Lowell, Roxbury, Dorchester, Mount Bowdoin, Weston, Lexington, Chelsea, Hyde Park, Somerville &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1890, referred to next General Court &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;