A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators
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&sm&& mS^mm^^mmMS^Smss^m 3s A •i. SsSSfs^^MBSSSSSswiMr., JL SGJUyENIR%*> > OF • i M m 5 Sft C H U S ET-T'§ LEGIBM.T-eRS; 189a. ^ lj BY AT M. BRIDGMAN. M SfM^ LIBRA W OF ASSMHISBII OCT 9 1947 6TA»£ HUUbt, BOSTON ' A<f. BRID The half-tone engravings in this printed by book were made on copper by the Wright & Potter Printing Co. Art Publishing Company, 18 Post Office Square, 132 Boylston Street. Boston. Mass 3s ?2 PREFACE. ~¥"N this souvenir volume an entirely new method lias been followed. The legislators who -*- have worked together are here grouped together. The chairman has been iriven the place of honor in the centre, with the House chairman on his right and the clerk on his left. The other members are then placed as in the committee arrangement. Fur evident reasons, how- ever, there is an occasional departure from this rule. The councillors and members of Congress are arranged in order by their districts. The aim of the editor has been to produce a book that should contain such matters of special interest as could not be found in any official publication. Therefore, whatever appears in the regular journals of either branch has been excluded, because this would be only a duplication. But here is given the personality of our legislators, as well as of other state officers. Here are their counterfeit presentment, their biography, and the fac-simile of their auto- graphs. All these make up the -man ; and here are the men who made laws for their state and helped make them for the nation in 1892. Look in their faces, read their history, and you will be assured that the interests of the state are safe in the keeping of such representative men. They are intelligent, honest, patriotic. You may not always have agreed with their conclusions ; but you might have done so had yon had their all evidence. They considered matters from sides ; you, from one. They represented the state; you, an individual. The editor gladly expresses his appreciation of the uniform kindness and courtesy he has experienced in receiving portraits and information from all of whom he has sought. He trusts the result, herewith presented, will prove a continual and ever-increasing source of pleasure to them as the distance ever widens between 1S92 and the future. Every day will add to the value of this souvenir, as every day makes more dim the memory of the legislators of 1892. A. M. Bridgmax, Editor. I- ]3IQGR71I?pIG^h BRIEF SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF THE MEN WHO, IN STATE AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, HELPED SHAPE LEGISLATION IN 1S92. THE GOVERNOR. His Excellency William Eustis Russell, Democrat, of Cambridge. This is his second term. He is the third Democratic governor of Massachusetts, and, next to the Hon. George S. Boutvvell, the youngest man who has ever occupied the chair of the Executive. He was born in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. G, 1857, his father being the Hon. Charles Theodore Russell, the distinguished jurist. He began his education in the public schools of his native city, and pursued his studies further at Harvard University, graduating thence in 1877, and at the Boston University Law School, whence he was graduated in 1879, at the head of his class, winning the Lawrence prize for the best essay and delivering the class oration. Admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880, he has since practised as a member of the firm in which his father and his brothers are partners. He took an early interest in public affairs, and became a member of the Cambridge common council in 1882, following that with two terms in the upper branch of the city government. In 1884 he was elected mayor by about one thousand over the Hon. James A. Fox, and in the two succeeding years he was given the compliment of an almost unanimous re-election. In 1887 his return to the office was contested, but he was once more successful by about two thousand majority. Mr. Russell's administra- tion as mayor was intelligent and impartial, and he did not allow his party affiliations and sympathies to control his action. An episode of his administration was the intro- " duction of the policy of no license," to which the city has adhered for five years ; and Mr. Russell, although not a believer in the system, promised to enforce it impartially, and did so, to the general satisfaction of its advocates. Mr. Russell has been president of the Alumni Association of the Boston University Law School and of the Middlesex County Democratic Club. He occupied the chair at the convention of Democratic clubs at Baltimore in 1888. In the same year he was nominated for governor by the Democratic party, and the same honor was accorded him in 1889. In 1891 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Williams College. Vote of the State: William E. Russell, Democrat, 157,982; Charles H. Allen, Re- publican, 151,515; Charles E. Kimball, Prohibition, 8,968; Henry Winn, People's Party, 1,749; Harry W. Robinson, Socialist Labor, 1,429 THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. His Honor William H. Haile, Republican, of Springfield, is a native of New Hampshire, having been born in that State Sept. 23, 1833. His father was governor of the State in 1857 and 1859. His parents removed their residence soon after his birth to 6 A SOUVENIR OF Hinsdale. He entered Kimball Union School at Meriden, N. H., to fit for college, and thence went to Amherst College, where he spent two years, but finished his college course at Dartmouth in the class of 1856. After his graduation he studied law in Springfield and was admitted to the bar in that city, but came to Boston to practice. He soon abandoned his profession and removed to Hinsdale, N. H., where he engaged in the manufacture of woollens, in company with his father and the Hon. Rufus S. Frost of Chelsea, with the latter of whom he is still associated. The Republicans of his district sent him to the New Hampshire Legislature in 1865, 1866 and 1871. In the next year he returned to Springfield, which city he has since made his abode, and has thoroughly identified himself with the interests of his adopted home. He has served in both branches of its city council, and was its mayor in 1881. In 1882 and 1883 he sat in the Massachusetts Senate, with appointment to the committees on military affairs (chair- man), banks and banking, mercantile affairs (chairman), rules and woman suffrage-. In 1892, in council, chairman of committees on pardons, finance, charitable institutions, prisons, military affairs and railroads. Vote of the State: William H. Haile, Republican, 157,216: John W. Corcoran, Democrat, 145,865; Augustus R. Smith, Prohibition, 9,3-46; William J. Shields, People's Party, 2,399; George R. Peare, Socialist Labor, 1,471. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. Hon. William Milo Olin of Boston is the sixteenth incumbent of the office of secretary of the Commonwealth since 1710. He is serving his second term there. He was born of New England parents in Warrenton, Ga., Sept. 18, 1845, but has been a resident of this State since 1850, and is a graduate of the public schools. He very early entered the office of the " Worcester Transcript," starting at the bottom of the ladder as the " devil." He followed that with work at the case until the breaking out of the rebellion. Then, although very young, he enlisted in the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers, and served throughout the war in that organization. Returning to civil life, he devoted some time to the completion of his studies and then joined the repor- torial staff of the " Boston Advertiser," with which paper he was connected for fourteen years, as reporter, editor and Washington correspondent. In 1879 he was appointed private secretary and military secretary, with the rank of colonel, by Governor Talbot, and was reappointed by Governor Long in 1880, 1881 and 1882. Since then he has acted as private secretary to Collector Worthington, Senator Dawes and Collector Beard, and he left the service of the last named to take up the duties of his present office. He has been lieutenant-colonel and assistant adjutant-general under General Wales, First Brigade, M. V. M., and adjutant-general of the National Encampment, G. A. R. Vote of the State: William M. Olin, Republican, 153,586; Elbridge Cushman, Democrat, 138,202; Alfred W. Richardson, Prohibition, 10,890; Joseph D. Cadle, People's Party, 3,729; Edward W. Theinert, Socialist Labor, 1,607. TREASURER AND RECEIVER-GENERAL. Hon. George Augustus Marden of Lowell, who is serving his fourth term as treasurer, is well known in Massachusetts, having been connected with thirteen Legisla- tures as clerk or member. Mr. Marden was born Aug. 9, 1839, in Mount Vernon, N. H., and was early taught his father's trade, that of shoemaking, besides spending much time upon the farm. He fitted himself for and paid his way through college by working at his trade and by teaching school. He enlisted early in the war in the Second Regi- ment, Berdan's U. S. Sharpshooters, and soon obtained a commission, acting as assistant adjutant-general, Third Brigade, Third Division, Third Corps. In 1865 he began the journalistic to study of law at Concord, N. H , at the same time engaging in work, M kSSACHl 9ETT8 LEOI8LATOB8, IS0S. His Excellency WILLIAM E. RUSSELL, Governor. 8 A SOUVENIR OF which he has since then paid steady attention. His newspaper duties have been on the "Concord Monitor," in Charleston, W.