Justices

Memorials

Appointed
10 Mass. 507 Chief Justice Parsons November 23, 1813
11 Mass. 496 Chief Justice 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. 601 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
(century since 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 Julian Liacos June 13, 2000
433 Mass. 1303 Francis J. Quirico December 19, 2000

In addition, the following proceedings have been published in the reports of the Appeals Court:
 
Citation Justice Honored in Memorial Date Presented
 4 Mass. App. Ct. 875 David A. Rose
(retirement)
March 11, 1976
16 Mass. App. Ct. 1111 Reuben Goodman June 15, 1983
40 Mass. App. Ct. 1135 Edith W. Fine April 17, 1996
40 Mass. App. Ct. 1151 David A. Rose April 22, 1996
45 Mass. App. Ct. 1127 Allan M. Hale November 18, 1998
49 Mass. App. Ct. 1123 J. Harold Flannery January 11, 2000
58 Mass. App. Ct. 1115 Joseph P. Warner June 24, 2003