Charles Q. Tirrell

Born in Sharon, Massachusetts, Tirrell attended public schools and later studied law at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1866. He served as principal of Peacham Academy in Peacham, Vermont, for one year, and of St. Johnsbury High School for two years. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Boston, Massachusetts. He served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1872. He moved to Natick, Massachusetts, in 1873. He served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1881 and 1882.

Tirrell was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1901, until his death in Natick on July 31, 1910. He was interred in Dell Park Cemetery.

• 102nd Massachusetts General Court (1881)
• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

• Who's who in State Politics, 1908 Practical Politics (1908) p. 21.

• United States Congress. "Charles Q. Tirrell (id: T000287)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Charles Q. Tirrell, late a representative from Massachusetts, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1911

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