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Supreme Judicial Court Justices' memorials

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Justices' memorials

Citation Justice Date Presented
10 Mass. 507 Theophilus Parsons November 23, 1813
11 Mass. 496 Samuel Sewall July 12, 1814
12 Mass. 501 Daniel Dewey   June, 1815
26 Mass. 576 Isaac Parker September, 1830
6 Cush. 583 Samuel Sumner Wilde (retirement)  November 9, 1850
15 Gray 599  Lemuel Shaw (retirement)  April 9, 1861
98 Mass. 600 George Tyler Bigelow (retirement)  December 30, 1867
112 Mass. 558 Reuben Atwater Chapman September 2, 1873
119 Mass. 600  Theron Metcalf November 27, 1875
119 Mass. 605  John Wells December 4, 1875
124 Mass. 598  George Tyler Bigelow May 3, 1878
125 Mass. 598  Benjamin Franklin Thomas October 17, 1873
130 Mass. 599  Seth Ames   November 11, 1881
131 Mass. 595  James D. Colt March 22, 1884
137 Mass. 591  Otis P. Lord March 22, 1884
137 Mass. 597  Dwight Foster April 21, 1884
140 Mass. 604  Waldo Colburn October 20, 1886
145 Mass. 593  Augustus Lord Soule   September 27, 1887
147 Mass. 621  William Sewall Gardner November 27, 1888
152 Mass. 601  Charles Devens February 7, 1891
153 Mass. 601  Marcus Morton   May 19, 1891
154 Mass. 607  William Allen September 15, 1891
163 Mass. 597  Ebenezer R. Hoar   March 9, 1895
174 Mass. 591  Walbridge A. Field   November 25, 1900
177 Mass. 607  William Crowinshield Endicott   November 24, 1901
182 Mass. 613  Horace Gray, Jr.  January 17, 1903
189 Mass. 605  James Madison Barker   January 20, 1906
209 Mass. 613  John Lathrop   October 21, 1911
214 Mass. 608  Charles Allen   May 24, 1913
231 Mass. 615  Marcus Perrin Knowlton   March 22, 1919
246 Mass. 581  John Wilkes Hammond   November 17, 1923
248 Mass. 593  James Madison Morton   May 17, 1924
250 Mass. 605  Charles Francis Jenney   January 17, 1925
251 Mass. 620  Charles Ambrose DeCourcy   June 27, 1925
257 Mass. 597  Henry Newton Sheldon   March 12, 1927
272 Mass. 591  Lemuel Shaw (centennial of appointment)  September 16, 1930
275 Mass. 586  Henry King Braley   May 23, 1931
277 Mass. 589  William Caleb Loring   December 12, 1931
280 Mass. 589  James Bernard Carroll   November 19, 1932
281 Mass. 559  George Augustus Sanderson   February 11, 1933
297 Mass. 589  William Cushing Wait   April 3, 1937
298 Mass. 575  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.   October 9, 1937
302 Mass. 625  Arthur Prentice Rugg   April 1, 1939
306 Mass. 622  Edward Peter Pierce   June 8, 1940
318 Mass. 800  John Crawford Crosby   December 8, 1945
328 Mass. 746  Arthur Walter Dolan   October 30, 1951
329 Mass. 773  Fred Tarbell Field   November 20, 1952
331 Mass. 779  Charles Henry Donahue   April 29, 1954
343 Mass. 784  James Joseph Ronan   December 12, 1962
344 Mass. 779  Henry Tilton Lummus   March 23, 1962
344 Mass. 791  Edward Augustine Counihan, Jr.   May 18, 1962
345 Mass. 798  Louis Sherburne Cox   September 28, 1962
351 Mass. 814  Harold Putnam Williams   November 15, 1966
351 Mass. 824  Stanley Elroy Qua   December 1, 1966
358 Mass. 850  Arthur Easterbrook Whittemore   January 18, 1971
361 Mass. 912  Raymond Sanger Wilkins   April 11, 1972
379 Mass. 931  John Varnum Spalding   November 20, 1979
385 Mass. 1217  Paul Grattan Kirk   April 22, 1982
387 Mass. 1223  Robert Braucher   September 21, 1982
394 Mass. 1115  Jacob J. Spiegel   April 18, 1985
405 Mass. 1703  Paul Cashman Reardon   September 7, 1989
418 Mass. 1603  Richard Ammi Cutter   September 14, 1994
421 Mass. 1603  G. Joseph Tauro   September 28, 1995
431 Mass. 1603  Paul J. Liacos   June 13, 2000
433 Mass. 1303  Francis J. Quirico   December 19, 2000
451 Mass. 1403  Edward F. Hennessey   April 15, 2008
451 Mass. 1417  Martha Browning Sosman   June 10, 2008
452 Mass. 1403  Francis P. O'Connor   October 15, 2008
460 Mass. 1303  Benjamin Kaplan   June 7, 2011
468 Mass. 1109 Joseph R. Nolan June 3, 2014
471 Mass. 1503 Neil L. Lynch June 10, 2015
486 Mass. 1117 Ruth I. Abrams November 12, 2020
490 Mass. 1337 Ralph D. Gants September 29, 2022

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