Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England for the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 — "Charles Sumner Lilley", with portrait

Date: 1900
Type: book
Repository: Internet Archive (Century Memorial Publishing Co., Boston)
Locator: pp. 121–122
Access: Public domain; the halftone portrait is reproduced on this site. Open online

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.
C-045 — Clara B. (Bonney) Lilley, only child of Arthur P. Bonney and wife of Judge Charles S. Lilley, died at one o'clock on Thursday 19 July 1894 at her home, 80 Sherman Street, Lowell, 'after a long and painful illness borne with great fortitude' (Lowell Sun, first edition, 19 July 1894). The monument inscription reads 'born June 19 1855, died July 19 1894'. Funeral from her father's house on Fairmount Street, 21 July; interment Lowell Cemetery. An infant daughter (born April 1894) survived her.