Guide Supreme Judicial Court Justices' memorials
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Justices' memorials
| Citation | Justice | Date Presented |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
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