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Petition subject: Abraham Lincoln legal holiday

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763659

Date of creation: 1902-01-24

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin C. Dean, Brookline; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. Mary A. Chapman
2. Sara White Lee
3. Frances B. Colby

Actions taken on dates: 1902-01-31,1902-02-04

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 31, 1902 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 4, 1902 and concurred

Total signatures: 3

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Female signatures: 3

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: members of, and committee duly authorized by the Daughters of the Revolution, State Regent, Past State Regent, [females], ["others"], ["a committee of the Daughters of the Revolution"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Daughters of the American Revolution

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1902, H 608 rejected

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.