Papers, 1815-1938.

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Papers, 1815-1938.

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Papers of Arthur P. Rugg of Sterling, Mass., lawyer, city solicitor for Worcester, Mass. (1897-1906), associate justice (1906-11) and chief justice (1911-38) of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court. The papers contain correspondence, legal case files, notes, speeches, articles, papers relating to his personal and professional involvements, letterbooks, diaries (1875-1936, with gaps), personal account books, financial journals documenting his law partnership with John R. Thayer (1895-1903) in Worcester, and scrapbooks of his articles and on various subjects. The collection also includes correspondence with his wife, Florence May (Belcher) Rugg, and her diary of a trip to England and Scotland in 1914, as well as papers of other family members, including Francis W. Chandler, Henry Daland, and Alice Daland Chandler. Also, a collection of autograph letters addressed to Rugg; correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, William Cardinal O'Connell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.

83 boxes, 94 v., 8 folders, and 1 rolled container. Unprocessed collection.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935

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Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. Dr. Holmes was a leading figure in Boston intellectual and literary circles. Mrs. Holmes was connected to the leading families; Henry James Sr., Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists were family friends. Known as "Wendell" in his youth, Holmes, Henry James Jr. and William James became lifelong friends. Holmes accordingly grew up in an atmospher...

Thayer, John R. (John Randolph), 1845-1916

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Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court

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Prior to 1780 called Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature. From the description of Pauper cases argued and determined in the Supreme Judicial Court, 1805-1826. (State Library of Massachusetts). WorldCat record id: 70967797 The Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts succeeded the Superior Court of Judicature established for the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, implicitly by Const Pt 2, C 3, Art 2 and explicitly by St 1780, c 17; see a...

Rugg and Thayer (Worcester, Mass.)

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Chandler, Francis W.

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O'Connell, William, 1859-1944

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Chandler, Alice Daland.

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Rugg, Arthur Prentice, 1862-1938

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Rugg, a 1883 graduate of Amherst College, was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1906, and became chief justice in 1911. Abbott was an assistant attorney general of Massachusetts. From the description of Letters to Edwin Hale Abbott, 1920, 1923. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339794 ...

Daland, Henry.

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Rugg family.

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Rugg, Florence May Belcher.

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Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

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Epithet: president of the United States British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x00001d Calvin Coolidge's son John married John Trumbull's daughter Florence. From the description of Letter, 1931 March 16, Northampton, Mass., to John H. Trumbull, Plainville, Conn. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 25622017 For information on Pres. Coolidge, see an encyclopedia. No information is...