Charles Q. Tirrell

Charles Quincy Tirrell was a lawyer, educator, and U.S. representative from Massachusetts.

Biography

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.
A "past grand master of the grand lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Massachusetts," 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.