1882-11-07 ElectionCommonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Beverly in said County. Greeting.
In the name of said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and
warn, in the manner prescribed by the regulations of the town, the inhabitants of the town of Beverly,
qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town Hall, in said town on Tuesday the seventh day of
November next at eight o'clock in the forenoon to give in their votes for.
Representative in the Forty eighth Congress of the United States for District Number Seven,
a Governor, Lieutenant Govemor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General, Auditor, and Attorney
General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for District Number Five, a County Treasurer, a County
Commissioner, and a Register of Deeds for the Southern District of Essex, a Senator for the Third
Senatorial District, and One Representative to the General Court for the Fifth Representative District
of the County of Essex.
The votes for all the above mentioned officers will be received on one piece of paper, and
the polls will be closed at four o'clock in the afternoon unless otherwise ordered by the meeting.
Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon before the time
of holding said meeting.
Given under our hands and seal this twenty seventh day of October, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and eighty two.
John I. Baker
Nathan H. Foster Selectmen
Freeborn W. Cressy of
Henry W. Foster Beverly
Isaac Ober
Essex ss. Beverly, October 31 st A.D. 1882. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified
the persons therein named, as therein directed, by posting notifications stating the time, place and
objects of said meeting at each of the several places in town required by the Town Regulations.
Gardner Haskell, Constable of Beverly
A true copy of the original warrant and return thereon.
Attest Wm. H. Lovett, Town Clerk
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly in the County of Essex, qualified
to vote for civil officers, holden at the Town Hall in said town on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday in November, it being the seventh day of said month, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and eighty two, a Representative in the Forty eighth Congress of the United States for District
Number Seven, a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General,
Auditor, and Attorney General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for District Number Five, a
County Treasurer, a County Commissioner, and a Register of Deeds for the Southern District of
Essex, a Senator for the Third Senatorial District, and One Representative to the General Court for
the Fifth Representative District of the County of Essex, all the ballots given in therefor were sorted,
counted, and recorded and declaration thereof made, as by law is directed, and were for the
following persons, namely,
For Representative in the Forty eighth Congress
Eben F. Stone of Newburyport, five hundred and sixty votes
Charles P. Thompson of Gloucester, five hundred and thirty one votes
Eben Moody Boynton of West Newbury, ninety five votes
J. N. Emery of Beverly, twenty six votes
560
531
95
26
For Governor
Benjamin F. Butler of Lowell, six hundred and fifteen votes
Robert R. Bishop of Newton, five hundred and seventy two votes
Charles Almy of New Bedford, thirty four votes
John I. Baker, one vote
615
572
34
1
For Lieutenant Govemor
Oliver Ames of Easton, seven hundred and forty five votes
Samuel W. Bowerman of Pittsfield, three hundred and ninety nine votes
John Blackmar of Springfield, thirty votes
George Dutton of Springfield, fifty one votes
745
399
30
51
For Secretary
Henry B. Peirce of Abington, seven hundred and fifty two votes
David N. Skillings of Winchester, three hundred and eighty nine votes
Solomon F. Root of Douglas, thirty votes
John Howes of Worcester, fifty votes
752
389
30
50
For Treasurer and Receiver General
Daniel A. Gleason of Medford, seven hundred and fifty votes
William A. Hodges of Quincy, three hundred and ninety two votes
Thomas J. Lothrop of Taunton, thirty votes
George Foster of Lynn, fifty votes
750
392
30
50
For Auditor
Charles R. Ladd of Springfield, seven hundred and thirty five votes
John P. Sweeney of Lawrence, three hundred and ninety five votes
735
395
Jonathan Buck of Harwich, thirty one votes
Augustus L. Merchant of Leverett, fifty one votes
For Attorney General
Edgar J. Sherman of Lawrence, seven hundred and forty six votes
George F. Derry of Worcester, three hundred and ninety four votes
Samuel N. Fairfield of Malden, thirty one votes
Elmer A. Snow of Athol, one vote
For Councillor for District Number Five
Edward H. Haskell of Gloucester, six hundred and twenty votes
Alfred A. Mower of Lynn, four hundred and eleven votes
Charles H. Litchman of Marblehead, one hundred and forty two votes
Abner D. Gorham of Wenham, thirty votes
For County Treasurer
E. Kendall Jenkins of Andover, eleven hundred and forty votes
Charles A. Wentworth 2d of Lynn, fifty one votes
A. F. Rabardy of Manchester, thirty votes
For County Commissioner
Edward B. Bishop of Haverhill, six hundred and thirty six votes
George J. L. Colby of Newburyport, five hundred and fifty three votes
Charles Moulton of Beverly, thirty two votes
For Register of Deeds for the Southern District of Essex
Charles S. Osgood of Salem, eleven hundred and thirty one votes
Francis H. Caskin of Danvers, fifty one votes
Daniel W. Friend of Manchester, thirty one votes
For Senator for Third Essex District
Henry Dennis of Rockport, five hundred and eighty five votes
Isaac A. L. Steele of Gloucester, six hundred and five votes
Edwin F. Mitchell of Beverly, thirty four votes
E. B. Bishop of Haverhill, one vote
For Representative to the General Court for the Fifth Essex District
John I. Baker of Beverly, six hundred and forty four votes
Leonard C. Foss of Beverly, five hundred and seventy three votes
31
51
746
394
31
1
620
411
142
30
1140
51
30
636
553
32
1131
51
31
585
605
34
1
644
573
Attest. Wm. H. Lovett, Town Clerk
John I. Baker
Nathan H. Foster Selectmen
Henry W. Foster of
Isaac Ober Beverly
Freeborn W. Cressy
On the fifteenth day of December A.D. 1882 I destroyed the ballots cast at the foregoing
meeting held on the seventh day of November A.D. 1882, no person having declared and intention
to controvert of dispute the election of any person who has received, or who may receive, a
certificate of election to any office voted for at said meeting.
Attest. Wm. H. Lovett,
Town Clerk