MASSACHUSETTS.

SENATORS.

Henry L. Dawes, of Pittsfield, was born at Cummington, Massachusetts, October 30, 1816; graduated at Yale College; was a school-teacher, and edited the "Greenfield Gazette" and "Adams Transcript;" studied and practised law; was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts in 1848, '49, and '52; was a member of the Senate of Massachusetts in 1850; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of Massachusetts in 1853; was District Attorney for the Western District of Massachusetts from 1853 until '57; was elected a Representative in the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses, and declined being a candidate for election to the Forty-fourth; he was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Charles Sumner, (whose unexpired term had been filled by William B. Washburn,) took his seat March 4, 1875, and was re-elected in 1881. His term of service will expire March 3, 1887.

George F. Hoar, of Worcester, was born at Concord, Massachusetts, August 29, 1826; studied in early youth at Concord Academy; graduated at Harvard College in 1846; studied law, and graduated at the Dane Law School, Harvard University; settled at Worcester, where he practised; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1852, and of the State Senate in 1857; was elected a Representative to the Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Congresses; declined a renomination for Representative in the Forty-fifth Congress: was an Overseer of Harvard College, 1874-'80; presided over the Massachusetts State Republican Conventions of 1871, '77, '82, and '85; was a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1876 at Cincinnati and of 1880 and 1884 at Chicago, presiding over the Convention of 1880; was one of the managers on the part of the House of Representatives of the Belknap impeachment trial in 1876; was a member of the Electoral Commission in 1876; was Regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 1880; was Vice-President and is now President of the American Antiquarian Society; is Trustee of the Peabody Museum of Archæology; has received the degree of Doctor of Laws from William and Mary, Amherst, and Yale Colleges; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed George S. Boutwell, took his seat March 5, 1877, and was re-elected in 1883. His term of service will expire March 3, 1889.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, with the towns of Acushnet, Dartmouth, Dighton, Fairhaven, Freetown, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset, Swansea, and Westport, and the cities of Fall River and New Bedford, in the county of Bristol; and the towns of Lakeville, Marion, Mattapoisett, Middleborough, Rochester, and Wareham, in the county of Plymouth.

Robert T. Davis, of Fall River, was born in the County of Down, North of Ireland, August 28, 1823, of parentage Presbyterian on the paternal and Quaker on the maternal side; his parents emigrated to this country and settled in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, when he was three years of age; received an academic education; graduated at the Medical Department of Harvard University in 1847; was for a short time Dispensary Physician in Boston; practised medicine three years at Waterville, Maine, and removed to Fall River in 1850, where he has since resided, except for a short period; was a member of the Massachusetts State Constitutional Convention of 1853; of the Massachusetts State Senate of 1859 and '61; of the Republican National Conventions of 1860 and '76; was Mayor of Fall River in 1873, being elected without opposition, and declining a re-election; was a member of the State Board of Charities when organized in 1863; was appointed a member of the State Board of Health upon its organization in 1869, and so remained until its consolidation with the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity in 1879, when he became a member of that Board; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 14,080 votes against 5,307 votes for Howland, Democrat, 1,041 votes for Stow, Greenbacker, 735 votes for Edward H. Hatfield, Prohibitionist, and 16 votes scattering.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES. The towns of Attleborough, Berkley, Easton, Mansfield, Norton, and Raynham, and the city of Taunton, in the county of Bristol; the towns of Braintree, Canton, Cohasset, Holbrook, Quincy, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton, and Weymouth, in the county of Norfolk; and

the towns of Abington, Bridgewater, Brockton, Carver, Duxbury, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Hingham, Hull, Kingston, Marshfield, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rockiand, Scituate, South Abington, South Scituate, and West Bridgewater, in the county of Plymouth.

John D. Long, of Hingham, was born at Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, October 27, 1838; was educated at the common school in Buckfield, and at Hebron Academy, Maine; graduated at Harvard College in 1857; taught school two years in Westford Academy, Massachusetts; studied law at the Harvard Law School and in private offices; was admitted to the bar and has since practised; was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1875, 76, 77, and '78, serving the three last years as Speaker of the House; was Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts in 1879; was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1880, '81, and '82; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,039 votes against 9,734 votes for Everett, Democrat, 2,630 votes for Dean, Greenbacker, 972 votes for George M. Buttrick, Prohibitionist and 9 votes scattering.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES. Part of Suffolk, comprising wards 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and precincts 3 and 4 of ward 15, in the city of Boston, and the town of Milton, in the county of Norfolk. Ambrose A. Ranney, of Boston, was born at Townshend, Vermont, April 16, 1821; graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1844; studied law at Woodstock, Vermont ; began practice in Boston in 1848; was Corporation Counsel for that city in 1855-'56; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1857, '63, and '64, and in active practice of the law all the time; was elected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,596 votes against 9,248 votes for Swasey, Democrat, 2,412 votes for Loring, Greenbacker, 396 votes for John W. Field, Prohibitionist, and 19 votes scattering.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

CITY OF BOSTON.-Wards 1, 2, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 16; precincts 2, 3, and 4, of ward 8, and precincts 1 and 2 of ward 15.

Patrick A. Collins, of Boston, was born near Fermoy, County of Cork, Ireland, March 12, 1844; came to the United States in 1848; received a common-school education; was in early life an upholsterer; read law in the Harvard Law School and in Boston, where he has practised since his admission to the bar in 1871; was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1868 and '69, and of the Massachusetts Senate in 1870 and '71; was Judge-Advocate-General of Massachusetts in 1875; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,664 votes against 7,182 votes for Jos. H. O'Neil, Republican and "Peoples'" candidate, 228 votes for John W. Sayre, Prohibitionist, and 19 votes scattering.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Part of Suffolk, comprising wards 9, 10, and 25, and precinct 1 of ward 8, in the city of Boston, with the cities of Somerville and Cambridge, and the towns of Arlington, Belmont, Burlington, Lexington, Waltham, Watertown, and Woburn, in the county of Middlesex. Edward Daniel Hayden, of Woburn, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 27, 1833; was educated at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachusetts, and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1854; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised until 1862, when he entered the United States Navy as assistant paymaster; was a member of the State House of Representatives of Massachusetts in 1880, 1881, and 1882; and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,290 votes against 11,018 votes for Robert Treat Paine, jr., Democrat, 930 votes for Douglas Frazar, Greenbacker, 317 votes for D. G. Dexter, Prohibitionist, and 5 votes scattering.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Part of Suffolk, comprising wards 3, 4, and 5 in the city of Boston, the city of Chelsea, and the towns of Revere and Winthrop; with the city of Lynn, and the towns of Nahant, Saugus, and Swampscott, in the county of Essex; and the city of Malden, and the towns of Everett, Medford, Melrose, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester.

Henry B. Lovering, of Lynn, was born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 8, 1841; was educated in the common schools of Lynn, and has since been connected with Lynn's great industry, the manufacture of shoes; was Representative to the State Legislature

in 1872 and '74; was Assessor in 1879-'80; was Mayor of Lynn in 1881 and '82; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, supported by the People's party, receiving 15,146 votes against 14,881 votes for Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican, 530 votes for William F. Johnson, Prohibitionist, and 9 votes scattering.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

CITIES AND TOWNS.-The cities of Gloucester, Haverhill, Newburyport, and Salem, with the towns of Amesbury, Beverly, Boxford, Bradford, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Groveland, Hamilton, Ipswich, Lynnfield, Manchester, Marblehead, Merrimac, Middleton, Newbury, Peabody, Rockport, Rowley, Salisbury, Topsfield, Wenham, and West Newbury, in the county of Essex.

Eben F. Stone, of Newburyport, was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1822; graduated at Harvard University in 1843, and at the Law School of the University in 1846; commenced the practice of law in Newburyport in 1847, and has, with some interruptions, followed it there ever since; has served in both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature; has held office, both civil and military, under the United States, and in the war of the rebellion commanded the Forty-eighth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia during its term of service; served two years as Chairman of the Republican State Committee of Massachusetts; was elected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,475 votes against 9,623 votes for R. S. Spofford, Democrat, 3,948 votes for Baker, Greenbacker, and 38 votes scattering.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

CITIES AND TOWNS.-The city of Lawrence, with the towns of Andover, North Andover, and Methuen, in the county of Essex; and the city of Lowell, and the towns of Acton, Ashby, Ayer, Bedford, Billerica, Roxborough, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Littleton, North Reading, Pepperell, Shirley, Stow, Tewksbury, Townsend, Tyngsborough, Westford, and Wilmington, in the county of Middlesex; and the towns of Bolton, Harvard, Lancaster, and Lunenburg, in the county of Worcester.

Charles H. Allen, of Lowell, was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, April 15, 1848; was fitted for college in public schools; graduated at Amherst College in 1869; took the degree of A. M. in 1872; engaged in mercantile pursuits; has held various local offices; was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1881 and 1882, and of the Massachusetts Senate in 1883, serving in each branch upon important committees; and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,643 votes against 9,446 votes for Lilley, Democrat, 1,055 votes for Eastman, People's party, 378 votes for John W. Reed, Prohibitionist, and 76 votes scattering.

NINTH DISTRICT.

CITIES AND TOWNS.-The city of Newton, and the towns of Ashland, Framingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Natick, Sherborn, Wayland, Weston, Hudson, Marlborough, Sudbury, Maynard, and Lincoln, in the county of Middlesex; and the towns of Blackstone, Mendon, Milford, Westborough, Southborough, Northborough, Berlin, and Clinton, in the county of Worcester; and the towns of Bellingham, Brookline, Dedham, Dover, Foxborough, Franklin, Medfield, Medway, Needham, Norfolk, Norwood, Walpole, Wellesley, Wrentham, and Hyde Park, in the county of Norfolk.

Frederick David Ely, of Dedham, was born at Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, September 24, 1838; was educated at Day's Academy, Wrentham, and at Brown University, Providence, R. I., where he graduated in 1859; studied law in the office of Hon. Waldo Colburn; was admitted to practice in 1862, and has since devoted himself exclusively to the profession of law; was trial justice from 1867 to March 3, 1885; was a member of the State House of Representatives of Massachusetts in 1873, and a member of the State Senate in 1878-79; was a member of the school committee of Dedham, 1882-1885; and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,265 votes against 6,301 votes for H. E. Fales, Democrat, 4,260 votes for Theodore Lyman, Independent, 2,429 vote for H. Lemon, jr., People's party, 617 votes for E. M. Stowe, Prohibitionist, and 4 votes scattering.

TENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.—The city of Worcester, with the towns of Auburn, Barre, Boylston, Brookfield, Charlton, Douglas, Dudley, Grafton, Hardwick, Holden, Leicester, Millbury, New Braintree, Northbridge, North Brookfield, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, Shrewsbury,

Southbridge, Spencer, Sterling, Sturbridge, Sutton, Upton, Uxbridge, Warren, Webster, West Boylston, West Brookfield, and the city of Worcester, in the county of Worcester, and the towns of Brimfield, Holland, and Wales, in the county of Hampden.

William W. Rice, of Worcester, was born at Deerfield, Massachusetts, March 7, 1826; was fitted for college at Gorham Academy, Maine; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1846; was preceptor in Leicester Academy, Massachusetts, for four years; studied law at Worcester with Hon. Emory Washburn and Hon. George F. Hoar; was admitted to the bar and has practised since at Worcester; was appointed Judge of Insolvency for the county of Worcester in 1858; was Mayor of the city of Worcester in 1860; was District Attorney for the Middle District of Massachusetts 1869-'74; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1875; was elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,940 votes against 6,551 votes for Estabrook, Democrat, 2,637 votes for Mellen, Greenbacker, 588 votes for William H. Earle, Prohibitionist, and 24 votes scattering.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Franklin and Hampshire, with the city of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden; the city of Fitchburg, with the towns of Ashburnham, Athol, Dana, Gardner, Hubbardston, Leominster, Petersham, Phillipston, Royalston, Templeton, Westminster, and Winchendon, in the county of Worcester.

William Whiting, of Holyoke, was born at Dudley, Massachusetts, May 24, 1841; was educated at the public schools, including high school; is a paper manufacturer, and President of the Holyoke Bank; was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in 1873; was elected Treasurer of Holyoke in 1876-'77; was a Delegate to the National Republican Convention of 1876; was elected Mayor of Holyoke 1878-'79; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,325 votes against 8,693 votes for Hill, Democrat, 819 votes for Olner, Greenbacker, 701 votes for W. F. Whitney, Prohibitionist, and 67 votes scattering.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Berkshire, with the city of Springfield and the towns of Blandford, Chester, Chicopee, Granville, Hampden, Long Meadow, Ludlow, Monson, Montgomery, Palmer, Russell, Southwick, Tolland, Westfield, West Springfield, and Wilbraham, in the county of Hampden.

Francis W. Rockwell, of Pittsfield, was born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, May 26, 1844; was educated in the public schools and at Edwards' Place School at Stockbridge, Massachusetts; graduated at Amherst College in 1868 and at Harvard Law School in 1871; is a lawyer at Pittsfield; was appointed one of the Special Justices of the District Court of Central Berkshire in 1873, resigning in 1875; has held various local offices; was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1879; was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 1881 and 1882; was elected on January 17, 1884, as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress, to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. George D. Robinson, who had been elected as Governor of Massachusetts, a special mid-winter election being held, and the Legislature having passed an act legalizing the same; and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,012 votes against 10,856 votes for Dunham, Democrat, 820 votes for Cadle, Greenbacker, 440 votes for John Blackmer, Prohibitionist, and 60 votes scattering.

MICHIGAN.

SENATORS.

Omar D. Conger, of Port Huron, was born in 1818, at Cooperstown, New York; removed, with his father, Rev. E. Conger, to Huron County, Ohio, in 1824; pursued his academic studies at Huron Institute, Milan, Ohio, and graduated in 1842 at Western Reserve College; was employed in the geological survey and mineral explorations of the Lake Superior copper and iron regions in 1845, '46,'47; in 1848 engaged in the practice of law at Port Huron, Michigan, where he has since resided; was elected Judge of the Saint Clair County Court in 1850, and Senator in the Michigan Legislature for the biennial terms of 1855, '57, and '59, and was elected President pro tempore of the Senate in 1859; was elected in 1866 a member of the Constitutional Convention of Michigan; was a Presidential Elector on the Republican ticket in 1864; was elected to the Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty

fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Hon. Henry P. Baldwin, Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1881. His term of service will expire March 3, 1887.

Thomas Witherell Palmer, of Detroit, was born at Detroit, Michigan, January 25, 1830; was educated in the public schools, at Thompson's Academy at Palmer, now Saint Clair, Michigan, and at the Michigan University; is and has been a manufacturer and farmer; has served on the Board of Estimates of Detroit, and as State Senator in 1879-'80; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, upon the eighty-first joint ballot of the Legislature, to succeed Hon. Thomas W. Ferry, Republican, and took his seat December 3, 1883. His term of service will expire March 3, 1889.

William C. Maybury, of Detroit, was born at Detroit, Michigan, November 21, 1849; was educated at the University of Michigan, which gave him the degree of Master of Arts; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and has since practised; was city attorney of Detroit 1875-'80; was lecturer on medical jurisprudence in Michigan College of Medicine; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 21,673 votes against 15,549 votes for Atkinson, Republican, 1,061 votes for Eakins, Greenbacker, and 544 votes for Pitkin, Prohibitionist.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Hillsdale, Lenawee, Monroe, and Washtenaw.

Nathaniel B. Eldredge, of Adrian, was born at Auburn, New York, March 28, 1813; received a common-school education; practised medicine for fifteen years, then practised law for twenty years, and is now a farmer; has held several minor offices; was Clerk of the Michigan Senate in 1845; was elected a member of the Michigan Legislature in 1848; was elected Judge of Probate in 1852-'56; was commissioned Captain in the Union Army in June, 1861, Major in August, 1861, and Colonel in April, 1862; was elected Sheriff of Lenawee County, Michigan, in 1874; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,710 votes against 17,656 votes for Allen, Republican, 2,418 votes for Mosher, Prohibitionist, and I vote scattering.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, and Jackson.

James O'Donnell, of Jackson, was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, March 25, 1840; removed with his parents to Michigan in 1848; enjoyed no educational advantages, but after commencing to learn the printer's trade in 1856 made up this deficiency by study after working hours; at the breaking out of the war he enlisted as a private in the First Michigan Infantry, and served out his time, participating in the first battle of Bull Run; was elected recorder of the city of Jackson for four terms, 1863-1866; established "The Jackson Daily Citizen," in 1865, and has owned and edited the same since; was Presidential Elector in 1872, and was designated by the State Electoral College as messenger to convey the vote of Michi gan to Washington; was elected mayor of Jackson in 1876, and was re-elected in 1877; was appointed in 1878 as aid-de-camp on the staff of Governor Croswell, with the rank of colonel; and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 20,438 votes against 19,210 votes for Henry F. Pennington, Fusionist, 2,531 votes for Michael J. Fanning, Prohibitionist, and 5 votes scattering.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.—Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, Saint Joseph, and Van Buren.

Julius C. Burrows, of Kalamazoo, was born at North East, Erie County, Pennsylvania, January 9, 1837; received a common-school and academic education; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and has since practised; was an officer in the Union Army, 1862-1864; was Prosecuting Attorney of Kalamazoo County, 1865-1867; was appointed Supervisor of Internal Revenue for the States of Michigan and Missouri in 1867, but declined the office; was elected a Representative in the Forty-third, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses; was appointed Solicitor of the United States Treasury Department by President Arthur in 1884, but declined the office; was elected a Delegate at Large from Michigan to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1884; and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,567 votes against 18,212 votes for Yople, Democrat and Greenbacker Fusionist, 1,232 votes for Alcott, Prohibitionist, and II votes scattering.