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Justice Jenney Dies; Long 

 Served State Brilliantly 



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THE BOSTON HERALD 



FRIDAY, NOV. 30,_1923^ 



Esteemed Justice of 

 Supreme Court, Dead 



(Photo by Place Studio) 

 JUDGE CHARLES F. JENNEY 



JENNET — At Peter Bent Brigham Hos- 

 pital, Nor. 20, Charles Francis Jenney, 

 associate judge of the Massachusetts su- 

 preme judicial court. Funeral services 

 at the Hyde Park Congregational Church, 



. Sunday, Dec 2, at 2:30 P. M. Friends 

 invited. 



Considered Among Na- 

 tion's Ablest Jurists — 

 Once in Senate 



NAMED TO SUPREME 

 COURT BY COOLIDGE 



Charles Francis Jenney, a justice 

 of the Massachusetts supreme judi- 

 cial court and considered one of the 

 ablest jurists in the country, died 

 at the Peter Bent Brigham hospital 

 yesterday following an operation on 

 Tuesday for gall stones. 



He had been In poor health for the 

 past year. In December last his con- 

 dition became such as to warrant ob- 

 servation and he was confined to the 

 Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for some 

 time, but his ailment could not be de- 

 termined then. He was a corpulent man 

 but after the treatment he underwent 

 In the hope of locating his trouble he 

 lost weight. While he returned to the 

 bench to continue his judicial duties 

 be suffered spells which incapacitated 

 him from taking the active part to 

 Which he had been accustomed and 

 Within the past month he was obliged 

 to remain at home. 



FAILS TO RALA.Y 



Last week Thursday he went to the 

 hospital and on Tuesday he was oper- 

 ated on by Dr. David Cheever. Gall 

 Stones were found to have been the 

 cause of his malady. Immediately follow- 

 ing the operation he was reported as 

 resting comfortably and on Wednesday 

 lllght it was said at the hospital that 

 he was resting as well as could be ex- 

 pected. The end came yesterday after- 

 noon. 



Services will be held Sunday after- 

 noon at 2:30 o'clock at the Congre- 

 gational church in Hyde Park. 



He Is survived by his widow, Mary 

 JC. Bruce Jenney; two daughters. Miss 

 Mildred Jenney and Mrs. Elsie Pearce, 

 wife of Dr. G. G. Pearce of New Bed- 

 ford, and a brother, Edwin C. Jenney, 

 a Boston lawyer. His home was at 100 

 Gordon avenue, Hyde Park. 



Mr. Jenney was born in Middleboro, 

 Sept. 16, I860, son of Charles Edwin and 

 Elvira Frances (Clark) Jenney. He 

 was the ninth in descent from John 

 Jenney of Plymouth, 1623. He was 

 graduated from the Brockton high 

 school at the head of his class. He be- 

 came a teacher and then studied law 

 find was elected to the House of Repre- 

 sentatives, where he served with Calvin 

 Coolidge, now President of the United 

 States. 



In 1909 he was appointed an associ- 

 ate justice of the superior court, where 

 he made a reputation as an eminently 

 fair judge, one possessed of true ju- 

 dicial temperament. He was a student 

 and read his law books as a hobby. 

 Much of his time on the superior court 

 bench was spent in the equity sessions, 

 his sense of fairness adapting him to 

 the equity side of the court. 



When William Caleb Loring resigned 

 as an associate justice of the supreme 

 court, Calvin Coolidge, then Governor 

 pf Massachusetts, elevated Judge Jen- 

 ney to that tribunal. That was In 1919. 

 He was the fifth Boston University law 

 school student to be thus honored. 



