Ihe Late Judge Jenney 



Charles Francis Jenney, who died yes- 

 terday, gave the closing, years of his pro- 

 fessional life to service as an associate 

 justice of the Supreme Judicial Court ot 

 Massachusetts, and that service was en- 

 riched by wide knowledge of the law, the 

 accumulated experience of a life devoted 

 to study of nature and of men, as well as 

 to the study of books, and a personality 

 marked by kindliness, which found expres- 

 sion in many ways in his conduct of court 

 ^business, while at the same time he was as 

 rigid in his adherence to law and precedent 

 as a Judge ought to be. His was a character 

 to which the word "humanness may prop- 

 erly be applied. It was infused with sym- 

 pathy for mankind. 



Beginning his professional life as a con- 

 veyancer, Judge Jenney became one of the 

 staff which in the early days of the Metro- 

 politan Park Commission studied and 

 passed on titles to thousands of parcels of 

 real estate. He subsequently engaged in 

 general practice, and found time to serve 

 his town and the Commonwealth in public 

 office, but he retained his membership in the 

 Abstract Club, and when he was appointed 

 by Governor Coolidge to the Supreme Court, 

 after his service as a justice of the Superior 

 Court, he brought to the highest tribunal 

 of the Commonwealth a far-reaching knowl- 

 edge of real estate law and conveyancing 

 that made him a recognized authority on 

 those subjects. 



Judge Jenney's love of nature found ex- 

 pression in his studies both as ornithologist 

 and botanist. A man of simple life, he 

 found pleasure and recreation in rambles 

 in field and woodland, often with glasses 

 to be used in watching the birds and 

 animals. The wide range of his activi- 

 ties included painstaking study of New 

 England history. A descendant of John 

 Jenney, who settled at Plymouth in 1623, 

 he was attracted by the stories of the 

 Englishmen who visited the New England 

 coast before the coming of the Pilgrim 

 Fathers, and of those others who were 

 establishing themselves here In the early 

 days of the Plymouth colony. The mono- 

 graph which he wrote concerning the set- 

 tlement of Monhegan Island Is a valuable 

 addition to the history of Maine. Among 

 his researches of much local interest was 

 that which resulted in the writing of the 

 history of Paul's Bridge, the stone-arch 

 structure between the towns of Milton and 

 Dedham. His membership in several his- 

 torical societies gave further evidence ol 

 his love of history. 



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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1923 



Judge Jenney's life was thus many- 

 sided. He won high and deserved dis- 

 tinction as a judge. He gave of his time 

 and talent to the service of the Common- 

 wealth as member of the General Court 

 and he was ready at all times to serve 

 his townsmen. As lecturer in Boston Uni- 

 versity, he was a helpful influence in the 

 lives of many young people. He turned 

 from his professional pursuits and public 

 service to studies which showed him as 

 one who knew that education is a process 

 which should end only with life itself. 

 Through it all he was unaffected and kind- 

 ly in his relations with his fellows. It 

 was a life that contained a vast deal of 

 inspiration for all who desire to live worth- 

 ily and make creditable use of their 

 abilities. 



JUDGE JENNEY OF 

 SUPREME COURT 

 DIES IN HOSPITAL 



He Had a Long Career as Public 

 Officer, Lawmaker and 

 Jurist 



HOME WAS IN HYDE PARK 



Bench and Bar and Citizens Gener- 

 ally Honor His i 

 Memory 



Associate Justice Charles Francis Jen- 

 ney of the Massachusetts Supremo Court 

 died yesterday afternoon at the Peter Bent 

 Brigham Hospital, where he had been for 

 several days, undergoing an operation for 

 gallstones on Tuesday. A y>a? agp his 

 condition was such that he was under ob- 

 servation at the hospital for some t'me but 

 the exact nature of the ailment was not 

 then determined. Since then he had been 

 incapacitated temporarily. 



Judge Jenney, a native of Middleboro, 

 where he was born on Sept. 18, 1830, had 

 faithfully served the public for i.iany years 

 since his graduation from Boston Univer- 

 sity Law School in 1883. He was the 

 ninth in descent from John Jenney of 

 Plymouth, 1623, and his parents were 

 Charles Edwin Jenney and Elvira Frances 

 (Clark) Jenney. For years he had lived 

 in Hyde Park, where he served in various 

 local public offices, and in 1886 became a 

 representative in the Legislature. He had 

 served also in t he State Senate. For 

 twenty-one years he was a lecturer on j 

 Massachusetts practice at Boston Univer- i 

 sity Law School. 



It was in 1909 that Governor Eben S. j 

 Draper named him for the Superior Court 

 bench. He filled that office most accept- 

 ably and found his training useful as a 

 public officer of the town and as a law- 

 maker of the Commonwealth. Calvin Cool- 

 idge, now President of the United States 

 and then governor, had served with Judge ! 

 Jenney in the Legislature and when Justice 

 William Caleb Lorlng resigned in 1919 he 

 selected Judge Jenney to fill that vacancy. 

 Boston University Law School alumni ten- 

 dered Judge Jenney a banquet in celebra- 

 tion of the event, and he was the fifth of 

 the school's students to be similarly 

 honored. 



Judge Jenney had two hobbles, the study 

 of birds and fish, plants and flowers. Presi- 

 dent of the B. U. Law School Alumni As- 

 sociation, he belonged also to the Massa- 

 chusetts Republican Club, the Norfolk and 

 Abstract clubs, the Society of Natural His- 

 tory, and the Hyde Park, Dedham and 

 Canton, Historical societies. 



Besides his widow, Judge Jenney is sur- 

 vived by two daughters, Miss Mildred Jen- 

 ney of Hyde Park and Mrs. Elsie Pearce 

 of New Bedford. 



The funeral will be held at 2.30 o'clock 

 on Sunday, at the Hyde Park Congrega- 

 tional Church. 



Four Bar Associations 



to Send Representatives 



Massachusetts, Boston, Norfolk and Mid- 

 dlesex Lawyers' Organizations Will Have 

 Committees at the .Funeral of Judge 

 Jenney 



Four bar associations— the Massachu- 

 setts, Boston, Norfolk and Middlesex — will 

 send representatives to the funeral services 

 for Judge Charles F. Jenney of the Su- 

 preme Court, as follows: 



Massachusetts — Felix Rackemann, Thomas 

 Hovey Gage, Edward B. Blodgett, Frank M. 

 Forbush, Frederick W. Mansfield and Alfred 

 P. Sawyer. 



Boston — George R. Nutter, president of the 

 association; Thomas W. Proctor, first vice presi- 

 dent; James E. Cotter, James D. Colt. William 

 G. Thompson, Hugh W. Ogden, Moorfield Storey 

 and James J. McCarthy. 



Norfolk — Patrick O'Loughlin. president of the 

 association; Judge Albert E. Avery, J. E. Cot- 

 ter, John W. McAnarney, Judge Oscar A. Mar- 

 den, Judges Jmes A. Halloran, Joseph P. Dra- 

 per, Orestes T. Doe, Clifford B. Sanborn, Joseph 

 R. McCoole, and Charles F. Perkins, Walter 

 W. Chambers. Harold P. Williams, Fred H. 

 Williams, George Fred Williams, Harvey P. 

 Partridge, Gerald A. Healey, Daniel A. Rollins, 

 Frederick G. Katzmann. Charles S. Rackemann, 

 David W. Murray, Thomas V. Nash, George A.. 

 Sweetser and/Robert B. Worthington. 



Middlesex— ^George L. Mayberry. president of 

 the association, and other members. 



Thomas W. Proctor will represent Boston 

 University Law School, of which Judge Jenney 

 was a graduate in the class of 1883. 



