Shaw, Lemuel, 1781-1861

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Dates:
Birth 1781-01-09
Death 1861-03-30

Biographical notes:

Chief justice of Massachusetts, 1830-1860. His daughter Elizabeth married the author Herman Melville.

From the description of ALS : Boston, to Joseph B. Felt, 1834 Oct. 14. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122475395

Shaw was chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1830-1860). Webster and Parkman were on the faculty of Harvard Medical School at the time of Parkman's murder.

From the description of Sentence of John W. Webster for the murder of George Parkman, 1850. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235086378

Shaw practiced law in Boston and was chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1830-1860).

From the description of Correspondence, 1823-1856. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234337561

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  • Capital punishment
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  • Judges
  • Land grants
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  • New York (State) (as recorded)
  • Charles River Bridge (Mass.) (as recorded)
  • New York (State) (as recorded)
  • Warren Bridge (Boston, Mass.) (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • Europe (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
  • Europe (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Cambridge (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • Boston (Mass.) (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) (as recorded)
  • Boston (Mass.) (as recorded)

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