George Bailey Loring (November 8, 1817–September 14, 1891) was a Member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He attended Franklin Academy at Andover, Massachusetts and later briefly taught school. He graduated from Harvard University in 1838 and from the Harvard medical school in 1842. He practiced medicine for a short time in North Andover. Served as surgeon of the marine hospital at Chelsea, Massachusetts (1843–1850) and as surgeon of the Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia (1842–1844). He was appointed commissioner to revise the United States marine hospital system in 1849.Moved to Salem, Massachusetts in 1851; appointed postmaster of Salem on May 4, 1853, and served until his successor was appointed on February16, 1858. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1866–1867); chairman of the Massachusetts State Republican committee (1869–1876); served in the State senate (1873–1876) and was also president of that body. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1868, 1872, and 1876; appointed United States centennial commissioner for the State of Massachusetts in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1880. Made United States Commissioner of Agriculture (1881–1885); appointed United States Minister to Portugal in 1889 and served until his resignation in 1890. He died in Salem, Massachusetts on September14, 1891, aged 73, and was interred in Harmony Grove Cemetery.
Martin Griffin (1825-1884) Massachusetts State Senate
Isaac Henry Coe (b. 1818) Chaplain 4th Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
Charles Pickett Stickney(1824-1902) Massachusetts State Senator
Samuel Moulton Griggs (1822-1886)Massachusetts State Senator
Rufus Dodd Woods(1840-1912)Massachusetts State Senator Son of Alonzo Woods and Angeline Wyatt. Died in Worchester, MA from carcinoma of liver. According to U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, found on Ancestry.com, Rufus Woods of Westfield, a Tailor, aged 20, enlisted on June 14, 1861 as a Private. He enlisted in Company K, Massachusetts 10th Infantry Regiment on June 21, 1861. He was promoted to Full Sergeant and mustered out on July 1, 1864. He enlisted in Company M, Massachusetts 3rd Cavalry Regiment n December 31, 1864. He was promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on October 5,1865. He mustered out on September 28, 1865 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Joseph Samson Potter(1822-1904)Massachusetts State Senator
Robert Johnson(b. 1823)Massachusetts State Senator
Timothy Fairbanks Packard(1812-1879)Massachusetts StateSenator
Levi Wallace(1831-1903)Massachusetts State Senator
Robert Oliver Fuller(1829-1903)Massachusetts State Senator
Lloyd Parsons(1816-1882)Massachusetts State Senator
Joseph Kelley Baker(1827-1886)Massachusetts State Senator
David Titcomb Woodwell(1820-1884) Woodwell shipyard series includes account books and financial papers of the family shipbuilding business, founded by ship carpenter Gideon Woodwell in 1762, formally organized (after a break during the American Revolution) by Woodwell, his son, John (1752-1822), and son-in-law, Enoch Hale, in 1783 as Woodwell & Hale, and later continued by John and his sons John (1786-1861), David (1788-1857), and Gideon (1790-1871), under the name Woodwell Brothers. Includes information concerning the firm’s repair of Parker River and Plum Island bridges and the operation of a general store and dry goods business also owned by the family. D.T. Woodwell & Co. records series contains journals and financial records of the ship chandlery and hardware business operated by David’s son, David Titcomb Woodwell (1820-1884), and his father-in-law, Jacob Haskell, after the closing of the shipyard in 1852.
George Walter Lobdell (1823-1874) Massachusetts State Senator In Civil War he was with the 1st New York Engineers.
Francis Wayland Jacobs(b. 1837)Massachusetts State Senator
George Arnold Torrey(1838-1911)Massachusetts State Senator and Wrote a book called“A Lawyer’s Recollections in and Out of Court”
Newell Giles(1818-1891)Massachusetts State Senator
Erastus Payson Carpenter(1822-1902) One of the most influential people in the development of Foxborough was Erastus P. Carpenter. He was a business man and community leader. He worked to begin the Foxborough Common, build Memorial Hall, helped build theTown House, and establish the English and Classical High School. He united many small straw manufacturing plants into one employing 6000 people. He introduced profit sharing with employees. He raised $10,000 for relief of Civil War soldiers and their families. He was founder of the Sylvanian Association, a private group formed to build the Town Common in the 1850s. He established the first printing plant in Foxborough in 1853 and in 1857 provided financial assistance to the ailing Home Library Newspaper. He was influential in the start of Rock Hill Cemetery and served as president of the Foxboro Loan and Building Association. He was a strong supporter of the Bethany Church. He was instrumental in bringing a shoe factory (later to become the Inman-Kimball Hat Factory) as well as the Van Choate Electric Company. He was chairman of the water commissioners. He headed a telegraph company linking Foxborough and Mansfield. He was the first president of the Mansfield and Framingham Railroad and served as State Director of the Boston and Albany Railroad as well. He was State Senator in the years 1872-1874 and in 1891 served in Massachusetts House of Representatives where he introduced the State Highway Bill. While visiting a Methodist Camp Meeting on Martha’s Vineyard in 1865, he was distressed at the lack of accommodations for those wishing to spend a few days. Joining with five other businessmen, he purchased a tract of land and built Sea View House. He also developed Katama and built Matabesett Lodge and several cottages. On Nantucket Island, he built a straw shop, offering employment to hundreds of local women. In 1887 he planned and supervised the building of Sea Cliff Inn. He established a straw shop in Medfield. On January 31, 1902, E.P. Carpenter died while crossing the Foxborough Common. A simple marker was placed in the ground at that spot near the flagpole toward Boyden Library.
Charles Howe French(1814-1889)Massachusetts State Senator
Carroll Davidson Wright(1840-1909) Wright was born at Dunbarton, New Hampshire. He attended schools in Washington, New Hampshire, from elementary through the Tubbs Union Academy. He began to study law in 1860, but in 1862 enlisted as a private in the 14th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment to fight the American Civil War. He became colonel in 1864,and served as assistant-adjutant general of a brigade in the Shenandoah Valley campaign under General Philip Sheridan. After the war, he was admitted to the New Hampshire bar, and in 1867 became a member of the Massachusetts and United States’ bars. From 1872 to 1873 he served in the Massachusetts Senate, where he secured the passage of a bill to provide for the establishment of trains for workers to Boston from the suburban districts. From 1873 to 1878 he was chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor. In 1880, he was appointed supervisor of the U. S. Census in Massachusetts, being also special agent of the census on the factory system. In 1885 he was commissioned by the governor to investigate the public records of the towns, parishes, counties, and courts of the state. He was the first U.S. Commissioner of Labor from 1885 to 1905, and in 1893 was placed in charge of the Eleventh Census. In 1894 he was chairman of the commission which investigated the Pullman Strike of Chicago, and in 1902 was a member of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission. He was honorary professor of social economics in the Catholic University of America from 1895 to 1904; in 1900, he became professor of statistics and social economics in Columbian University (now George Washington University).From 1900 to 1901, he was university lecturer on wage statistics at Harvard, and in 1903 he was a member of the Douglas Commission to investigate and recommend a program of vocational education for Massachusetts. In 1902, he was chosen president of Clark College (the under graduate school at Clark University), Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was also professor of statistics and social economics from 1904 until his death. Dr Wright was President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1903, and in 1907 received the Cross of the Legion of Honor for his work in improving industrial conditions, a similar honor (Order of Saints Maurizioe Lazzaro) having been conferred upon him in 1906 by the Italian government. He was a member of the Institute of France and a honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Science of Russia. [1] In 1907, he was elected the second president of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. He received honorary degrees from Tufts(1883), Wesleyan (1894), Dartmouth (1897), Clark Univ. (1902), Tufts (1902), and Amherst(1905). He died on February 20, 1909
Carroll D. Wright served in the US Army (Co C, 14th NH Infantry-Appointed 2 LT 10/9/62 and mustered as 2nd Lt, Appointed Adjutant 9/20/63, Appointed Colonel 12/6/64) during the Civil War, trained as a lawyer, and served two years in the Massachusetts Senate before being appointed to head the state’s Bureau of Statistics and Labor. As a statistician, he collected data on such controversial issues as cost of living, crime, divorce, illiteracy, housing, poverty, strikes and lockouts, wage rates, and his office was praised for breaking with precedent by eschewing political shading and instead pursuing objective facts. Wright was President Chester A. Arthur’s choice to head the newly-established Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1885. In this position he conducted pioneering analysis of the working person’s economic life, providing dispassionate analysis during an era of intense labor disputes, and spoke of labor’s right to strike in a time when such a statement was still considered controversial. He was appointed by President Grover Cleveland to investigate the Pullman strike of 1894, and by President Theodore Roosevelt to help mediate the United Mine Workers’ coal strike of 1902. Father: Nathan Reed Wright (Unitarian minister, b. circa 1810) Mother: Eliza Clark Wright (b. circa 1809) Wife: Caroline Elizabeth Harnden (“Carrie”, b. 6-Nov-1841, m. 1-Jan-1867, two daughters) Daughter: Cornelia Harnden Wright McPherson (b. 8-Dec-1870) Daughter: Grace Duncan Wright Capen (b. 1875) Professor: Statistics and Social Economics, George Washington University (1900-05) Administrator: President, Clark University (1905-09)French Legion of Honor 1907 American Association for the Advancement of Science (President, 1903)American Bar Association American Statistical Association (President, 1897-1909)US Interior Department Bureau of Labor Statistics (Commissioner, 1885-1905)Massachusetts State Official Bureau of Statistics and Labor (Director, 1873-88) Massachusetts State Senate (1871-73) Author of books: The Factory System of the United States (1880)Relation of Political Economy to the Labor Question (1882) The Working Girls of Boston (1884) History of Wages and Prices in Massachusetts, 1752-1883 (1885) Industrial Depressions (1886) The Industrial Evolution of the United States (1887) A Report on Marriage and Divorce in the United States, 1867 to 1886 (1889) Report on the Chicago Strike of June-July, 1894 (1895) Outline of Practical Sociology (1899) The History and Growth of the United States Census (1900) Some Ethical Phases of the Labor Question (1902) Battles of Labor (1906) Nathan Williams Harmon (1813-1887) Massachusetts State Senator
William H. Learned Jr. Massachusetts State Senator
N. L. Johnson Massachusetts State Senator
G.T. Thompson Massachusetts State Senator
Edward Lawrence(1810-1885)Massachusetts State Senator
Edward Learned(1820-1886) Massachusetts State Senator
Jeremiah Clark(1819-1898) Massachusetts State Senator
James Brown(1828-1893)Massachusetts State Senator
Jedediah Dwelley (b. 1834) Massachusetts State Senator
Moody Merrill(b. 1836) Argument of Hon. Moody Merrill before the Committee on Street-Railways of the Legislature of Massachusetts : on the petition of the Highland Street-Railway Company for authority to lease, purchase, and consolidate with other street-railway companies, and to adopt the cable system of motive-power : also the testimony of Mayor O’Brien and Gen. John L. Swift : Wednesday, Feb. 24, 1886
Francis Augustus Nye(b. 1823)Massachusetts State Senator
Henry Stevenson Washburn(1813-1903) Born in Providence, Rhode Island and residing most of his life in Massachusetts, Henry Stevenson Washburn studied at Brown University and served as both a Representative and a Senator in the Massachusetts State Legislature. In addition to his work as a legislator, Washburn wrote poetry, including the text to George F. Root’s popular song “The Vacant Chair” and Lyman Heath’s “The Burial of Mrs. Judson.”
Newton Morse (1832-1898) Massachusetts State Senator Served in Civil War 13th Infantry Before the Antietam Campaign: He was in Company H. In the Antietam Campaign: He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.References, Sources, and other notes: Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1. Age 29, a shoemaker in Natick on enlistment in June 1861. Discharged for disability 2 June 1863. Also served in Company D, 59th Massachusetts infantry, and transferred to the 57th.
Prentiss Chaffee Baird (1832-1890) Massachusetts State Senator
G.K. Bannister Massachusetts State Senator
Henry Lewis Bancroft (1821-1899) Massachusetts State Senator Served in Civil War 50thMass Infantry and 1st Mass Battery Heavy Artillery
John Douglas Todd (1814-1874)Massachusetts State Senator
William Whiting (May 24, 1841-January 9, 1911) was an American businessman and politician from Holyoke, Massachusetts. Whiting descended from an English family who first settled in Lynn, Massachusetts during 1636.[4] Whiting was born in Dudley, Massachusetts, May 24, 1841. Whiting attended public schools and graduated from Amherst College.[4] Whiting worked for the Holyoke Paper Company and the Hampden Paper Company. At the age of 17 Whiting started at the Holyoke Paper Company working first as a bookkeeper. After three years working as a clerk, Whiting became a salesman first working out of the company’s main office and later working as a commercial traveling salesman.[7] Whiting organized the Whiting Paper Company in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1865. [8] In 1865, Whiting built his first mill followed by another in 1872.[8] When the Whiting Paper Company was first formed. L.L.Brown of South Adams, Massachusetts was president and Whiting was agent and treasurer. Whiting later became president and his son, William Fairfield Whiting, became treasurer.[8] Whiting later organized the Collins Paper Company and built a paper mill in North Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Whiting was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1873; city treasurer of Holyoke in 1876 and 1877; mayor of Holyoke in 1878 and 1879; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876 and 1896; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1889). Whiting was not a candidate for renomination in 1888. He was a commissioner to the Exposition Universelle in Paris, France, in 1900, and resumed his former manufacturing pursuits. Whiting died in Holyoke on January 9, 1911 and was interred in Forestdale Cemetery in Holyoke.
George Danforth Whittle(1838-1899)Massachusetts State Senator
Stephen Nye Gifford(1815-1886)was an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Auditor and was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate from January 6, 1858 to April 18, 1886. Born in Pembroke, MA on July 21, 1815, he was educated at Hanover Academy and the academy at Bridgewater. As a young man he was employed as a schoolteacher, eventually establishing a private academy at Duxbury. In 1850 he was elected as a Whig to represent Duxbury in the state house of representatives. In 1851 he was appointed Inspector in the Boston Custom House; in 1855 he was chosen to supply a vacancy in the office of State Auditor. In 1855 and 1857 he served as assistant clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1858 he became Clerk of the Senate, holding that post for 28 years until his death in 1886. During this time he was noted as a parliamentary expert and authority on technical points of legislation. In the summer of 1862 when the call went out for more troops, Duxbury looked to Maglathlin to assume a role of leadership. He had absolutely no military training. But he clearly possessed intelligence, had secured the best education available in Massachusetts, could boast of significant accomplishments and evidently held tremendous respect within the community. Passionate about the cause of preserving the Union, Maglathlin worked to recruit men from Duxbury. When some question arose as to whether or not the town would be able to pay the$100 bounty for each man, Maglathlin, along with Gershom B. Weston, Stephen Nye Gifford and Dr. James Wilde (all pillars of the community), offered to fund the bounties personally.
Senate Chaplain Edward Abbott 1873 State Senate
ChaplainJ ohn Morissey(1816-1885) Sergeant-at-Arms MAJOR 3rd Mass Infantry
Henry O. Read Doorkeeper
Stillman W. Edgell Doorkeeper from the Fitchburg Sentinel, 15 February 1892: Stillman W. Edgell of Waltham, formerly of this city, but for the past 28 years doorkeeper of the state senate, left the state house about three weeks ago and has not since been seen. He had been a sufferer from nervous dyspepsia some years and had an attack of la grippe about three weeks ago. He served three years in the war with the Fusiliers (Co. B, 15th regiment) and lost an arm at the battle of Cold Harbor. from the Fitchburg Sentinel, 19 February 1892: Chief of police Locke has received a circular from the Boston police department giving a photograph and description of Stillman W. Edgell, who has been missing since Jan. 24. A reward of $100 is offered for information that will lead to his discovery. He is thought to be temporarily deranged. Captain Edgell is 62 years old, about 5 ft., 10 inches in height, weighs 180 lbs., short gray hair, gray moustache, right arm off at shoulder; always dresses well. from the Fitchburg Sentinel, 20 February 1892: All efforts to discover any trace of Stillman W. Edgell, since he left the state house on Sunday, Jan. 24, about 6:15 p.m., have proved unavailing. There is evidence that he had money and valuables to the amount of about $800 in his possession when he left the building. Mr. Edgell was appointed a messenger at the state house in 1865 and had continued in the public service at the state house up to the time of his disappearance, having been for many years doorkeeper at the senate chamber. from the Fitchburg Sentinel, 7 March 1892: A West Gardner Man Confident that He saw Stillman W. Edgell. The only real clue to the missing state house doorkeeper, Stillman W. Edgell, who disappeared several weeks ago, comes from West Gardner, by a letter written by J. F. Carroll to Mrs. E. J. Stone of Waltham, an aunt of Edgell, and with whom he has lived for a long time. Carroll saw a man at West Gardner, over a week ago, who attracted his attention by his singular actions, and who answered to the general description of Edgell. He reported what he saw to Inspector O’Day of Worcester, who sent him a picture of Edgell, where upon Carroll wrote Mrs. Stone, expressing his positive conviction that the man he saw was Edgell. Nothing has been seen or heard of the man he saw since then. from the Fitchburg Sentinel, 25 April 1892: Capt. Stillman W. Edgell’s Body Found The body of Capt. Edgell was found floating in Charles river, near the draw in Harvard bridge, Sunday afternoon. He was last seen alive on Sunday, Jan. 24, and Medical Examiner Swan thinks the body had been in the water three months. It was probably a case of suicide while temporarily insane. Medical Examiner Swan made a careful examination of the body. The clothing consisted of anover coat, dark blue suit, white shirt, turn-down collar, tie boots and overshoes. Upon the body were found a bunch of keys, with a stencil marked “S. W. Edgell, State House, Boston.” There were also found the gold watch and chain and charm, his diamond ring, two gold studs and a diamond stud, two pairs of eyeglasses, two pocket knives, $24,06 in money, a silk hanker chief and two linen ones, a time table of the Fitchburg road and a horse chestnut. On the watch pocket of his trousers was plainly marked in indelible ink the word”Edgell.”Capt. Edgell was born in Winchester (sic, it is actually Westminster), Mass., in 1832. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Fitchburg, after which he was employed here till the war broke out. He enlisted in the Fitchburg Fusiliers, 15th Mass. Vol. and 15th Massachusetts Infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, where he lost an arm. After his resignation from the army he accepted an appointment in the custom house, which he held until he was appointed door keeper of the senate of Massachusetts, which he held for 28 years, in fact up to the time of his disappearance. He was never married, but lived with his niece, Mrs. Stone in Waltham. from the Fitchburg Sentinel, 26 April 1892:The funeral of Stillman W. Edgell will be held at Westminster, his native town on Wednesday. A special car, attached to the 10:30 a.m. train out of Boston, will bring the body from Waltham–arrangements having been made for this train, which leaves here at 11.52, to stop at Westminster. A delegation from Post 19, G. A. R. of which deceased was a member, will leave the city in a barge at 11.15 a.m. from the Fitchburg Sentinel, 11 May 1892: In Memory of Stillman W. Edgell Post 19, G. A. R., at their meeting on Monday evening, adopted the following memorial: Again the enemy has made an assault and broken our lines. Death has taken another veteran from our ranks. Stillman W. Edgell was a worthy man, a brave soldier, a true comrade. Well does he deserve a tribute of affection from his comrades, and a grateful remembrance, for what he was, and all he dared. We remember him with kindly feelings of true comradeship, as well recall his long and faithful work in the service of his country, and his state. As he goes from us to be mustered in and join the rapidly increasing army of comrades on the other side of the thin vail, which separates us from the, with tender thoughts we will bid him, “Rest on his sheaves, his harvest task is done, Soldier go home; with thee, the fight is won, “Resolved, That this testimonial of our soldierly affection for Comrade Edgell he entered upon the records of the Post, and printed in the newspapers of this city. J. W. Kimball, A. A. Givson, R. J. Parker, Committee. A true copy, Charles W. Gale, Adjutant.
Hira W. Bates Messenger
Charles W. Philbrick Senate Page
Dr. George H. Gould