History / Sources
The Lowell Sun, "Judge Lilley — His Appointment to the Bench"
- Date
- 23 November 1893
- Type
- newspaper
- Repository
- Internet Archive (digitised Lowell Sun)
Statements this record supports
- C-014 — Charles Sumner Lilley (born Lowell 13 Dec 1851, eldest of three sons of Charles and Cynthia (Huntley) Lilley; public schools and private tutors; learned carpet designing at the Lowell Manufacturing Company; read law with Arthur P. Bonney; admitted Middlesex bar June 1877; Boston office with G. A. A. Pevey 1880–88; alderman 1879; state senator 1880–81 and 1886; Governor's Council 1884) was appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court by Gov. William E. Russell on 29 November 1893 and resigned 1 January 1900. A halftone portrait (profile, bearded) appears in Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England (1900), vol. 1, p. 121.
