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Lowell Courier-Citizen, “Death of Judge Charles S. Lilley. Prominent Figure in Local Legal and Political Circles Passes Away in Boston Hospital,” with “Bar Association Takes Appropriate Action”

Date
April 18, 1921
Type
newspaper
Repository
Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell (page copy sent October 27, 2026); also on NewspaperArchive (subscription)
Locator
Monday evening, p. 6
Access
Copy courtesy of Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell. The page is reproduced on this site in full, with the article enlarged. NewspaperArchive page: lowell-courier-citizen-evening-apr-18-1921-p-6. Read the source
Rights
Public domain (published 1921).

The Courier-Citizen’s obituary, separate from the Lowell Sun’s “Judge Lilley Dead” of the same day (listed above). The microfilm is soft, and some figures in the opening paragraphs cannot be read with confidence. It agrees with the Sun on his career, gives the marriage as April 14, 1891, and says that since his daughter’s marriage in 1917 he had “lived a secluded life among his books, although maintaining his law offices in the Hildreth building.” Two of its statements are wrong: that he moved into the stone house on Fairmount Street when he married, and that Mrs. Lilley died after her parents (see C-045 and C-1068).

The document

Newspaper column headed Death of Judge Charles S. Lilley, first part (view full size)
“Death of Judge Charles S. Lilley,” Lowell Courier-Citizen, April 18, 1921, p. 6 (first part of the column). Copy courtesy of Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell.

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Newspaper column continuing the Lilley obituary, then the Lowell Bar Association’s meeting on his death (view full size)
The same column continued, with “Bar Association Takes Appropriate Action.” Copy courtesy of Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell.

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Full newspaper page of the Lowell Courier-Citizen for April 18, 1921, page 6 (view full size)
Lowell Courier-Citizen, April 18, 1921, p. 6, the full page. Copy courtesy of Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell.

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Statements this record supports

  • C-048 — Judge Charles S. Lilley died Saturday evening April 16, 1921 at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, after a brief illness; his funeral at 236 Fairmount Street on April 20, 1921 was attended by many jurists; burial in the family lot, Lowell Cemetery. The 1921 obituary records that he married Clara Bonney on April 14, 1891 and that their daughter was 'now Mrs. Dunbar of West Newton'.
  • C-1069 — Judge Charles Sumner Lilley died on Saturday evening, April 16, 1921, at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, aged 69; his funeral was held at his house, 236 Fairmount Street, on Wednesday, April 20. The Lowell Sun's obituary records that he was born in Lowell on December 13, 1851, son of Charles and Cynthia Huntley Lilley, was educated in the public schools and by private tutors, worked briefly as a designer in the Lowell Carpet mills, read law in the office of A. P. Bonney and was admitted to the bar in June 1877; was a justice of the police court from 1885 and of the Superior Court from 1893 to 1900, when he resigned to resume practice; a Democrat, he was chairman of the board of aldermen in 1879, a state senator and a member of the governor's council in 1884; Dartmouth gave him an honorary A.M. in 1896 for his work on the Monroe Doctrine, and he published 'What is the Monroe Doctrine?' in 1905. After his wife's early death he 'lived a secluded life among his books'.

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