NOTE: Both of Bailey's FAG memorials got removed during a merge in Dec 2020. I added this new one as a substitute pending a FAG correction. Lest we forget.
Bailey Aldrich was born in Massachusetts, the only child of Talbot Bailey Aldrich 1868–1957 and Eleanor Lovell Little 1884–1978.
He married Elizabeth Perkins 1907–2000 in 1932. They had sons Jonathan and David.
Bailey Aldrich was appointed to the U.S. District Court in Boston in 1954 and advanced to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1959, He was one of the nation's longest-serving federal judges, hearing cases even after his 90th birthday. Aldrich grew up in Boston, and attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. His colleagues recorded his story in his own words in 1999 and stored the tape transcriptions in the United States Courthouse library in Boston.
Judge Aldrich stepped down in 1972 after seven years as chief judge. He was first named to the US bench in the District Court of Massachusetts by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954. Five years later he was appointed to the US Court of Appeals. In 1965 he was made chief judge.
He had served as president of Fruitlands Museums Inc.; secretary and a trustee of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals; and as a trustee of Boston University Medical Center and the Provident Institution for Savings. He was a member of the Union Club of Boston, the Society of Cincinnati, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Law Institute.
He died in his home.
Judge Aldrich was survived by two sons, Jonathan of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and David of Brookline; and four grandchildren.
***The Harvard Class of 1928 celebrated their 25th Anniversary in 1953 with a 1,000+ page book. Here is the life-since-graduation perspective he provided (edited for brevity):
YEARS IN COLLEGE: 1924-1928. DEGREES: A.B. cum laude, 1928; LL.B. cum laude, 1932.
OCCUPATION: General practice of law.
OFFICES HELD: Secretary, trustee, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, since 1938; trustee, Provident Institution for Savings, since 1942.
MEMBER OF: Union Club of Boston.
"FOLLOWING graduation, with a friend who agreed that it was now or never, I spent a year going ’round the world. After that came law school, which I was fortunate enough to like. It did not, however, make me want to move to Washington with a seeming majority of the law school Class of 1932, but I did say no more Cambridge--seven years was enough.
With such resolve I married and crossed the river to Boston, to become employed by the firm of which I am now a member. This firm is composed mostly of specialists of one kind or another, but in due course I became half a specialist in trial work and half a general practitioner. Although this at times leaves very few free moments, there are relatively few dull ones.
With the war, much of the office went into the service and the rest of us apportioned among us who would take government jobs and who would stay put. I lost out and stayed home. Home, by that time, in spite of my 1932 vows, was Cambridge to which, as our family grew, we moved with some misgivings.
We should have had none. It is a thoroughly agreeable place to live. Summers we move further out, and at all possible times engage in our favorite occupation-cruising. I have had some kind of a liveable sailboat since 1924, and if I die with my boots on, hope that they will be sneakers."
Bailey Aldrich was born in Massachusetts, the only child of Talbot Bailey Aldrich 1868–1957 and Eleanor Lovell Little 1884–1978.
He married Elizabeth Perkins 1907–2000 in 1932. They had sons Jonathan and David.
Bailey Aldrich was appointed to the U.S. District Court in Boston in 1954 and advanced to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1959, He was one of the nation's longest-serving federal judges, hearing cases even after his 90th birthday. Aldrich grew up in Boston, and attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. His colleagues recorded his story in his own words in 1999 and stored the tape transcriptions in the United States Courthouse library in Boston.
Judge Aldrich stepped down in 1972 after seven years as chief judge. He was first named to the US bench in the District Court of Massachusetts by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954. Five years later he was appointed to the US Court of Appeals. In 1965 he was made chief judge.
He had served as president of Fruitlands Museums Inc.; secretary and a trustee of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals; and as a trustee of Boston University Medical Center and the Provident Institution for Savings. He was a member of the Union Club of Boston, the Society of Cincinnati, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Law Institute.
He died in his home.
Judge Aldrich was survived by two sons, Jonathan of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and David of Brookline; and four grandchildren.
***The Harvard Class of 1928 celebrated their 25th Anniversary in 1953 with a 1,000+ page book. Here is the life-since-graduation perspective he provided (edited for brevity):
YEARS IN COLLEGE: 1924-1928. DEGREES: A.B. cum laude, 1928; LL.B. cum laude, 1932.
OCCUPATION: General practice of law.
OFFICES HELD: Secretary, trustee, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, since 1938; trustee, Provident Institution for Savings, since 1942.
MEMBER OF: Union Club of Boston.
"FOLLOWING graduation, with a friend who agreed that it was now or never, I spent a year going ’round the world. After that came law school, which I was fortunate enough to like. It did not, however, make me want to move to Washington with a seeming majority of the law school Class of 1932, but I did say no more Cambridge--seven years was enough.
With such resolve I married and crossed the river to Boston, to become employed by the firm of which I am now a member. This firm is composed mostly of specialists of one kind or another, but in due course I became half a specialist in trial work and half a general practitioner. Although this at times leaves very few free moments, there are relatively few dull ones.
With the war, much of the office went into the service and the rest of us apportioned among us who would take government jobs and who would stay put. I lost out and stayed home. Home, by that time, in spite of my 1932 vows, was Cambridge to which, as our family grew, we moved with some misgivings.
We should have had none. It is a thoroughly agreeable place to live. Summers we move further out, and at all possible times engage in our favorite occupation-cruising. I have had some kind of a liveable sailboat since 1924, and if I die with my boots on, hope that they will be sneakers."
NOTE: Both of Bailey's FAG memorials got removed during a merge in Dec 2020. I added this new one as a substitute pending a FAG correction. Lest we forget.
Bailey Aldrich was born in Massachusetts, the only child of Talbot Bailey Aldrich 1868–1957 and Eleanor Lovell Little 1884–1978.
He married Elizabeth Perkins 1907–2000 in 1932. They had sons Jonathan and David.
Bailey Aldrich was appointed to the U.S. District Court in Boston in 1954 and advanced to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1959, He was one of the nation's longest-serving federal judges, hearing cases even after his 90th birthday. Aldrich grew up in Boston, and attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. His colleagues recorded his story in his own words in 1999 and stored the tape transcriptions in the United States Courthouse library in Boston.
Judge Aldrich stepped down in 1972 after seven years as chief judge. He was first named to the US bench in the District Court of Massachusetts by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954. Five years later he was appointed to the US Court of Appeals. In 1965 he was made chief judge.
He had served as president of Fruitlands Museums Inc.; secretary and a trustee of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals; and as a trustee of Boston University Medical Center and the Provident Institution for Savings. He was a member of the Union Club of Boston, the Society of Cincinnati, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Law Institute.
He died in his home.
Judge Aldrich was survived by two sons, Jonathan of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and David of Brookline; and four grandchildren.
***The Harvard Class of 1928 celebrated their 25th Anniversary in 1953 with a 1,000+ page book. Here is the life-since-graduation perspective he provided (edited for brevity):
YEARS IN COLLEGE: 1924-1928. DEGREES: A.B. cum laude, 1928; LL.B. cum laude, 1932.
OCCUPATION: General practice of law.
OFFICES HELD: Secretary, trustee, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, since 1938; trustee, Provident Institution for Savings, since 1942.
MEMBER OF: Union Club of Boston.
"FOLLOWING graduation, with a friend who agreed that it was now or never, I spent a year going ’round the world. After that came law school, which I was fortunate enough to like. It did not, however, make me want to move to Washington with a seeming majority of the law school Class of 1932, but I did say no more Cambridge--seven years was enough.
With such resolve I married and crossed the river to Boston, to become employed by the firm of which I am now a member. This firm is composed mostly of specialists of one kind or another, but in due course I became half a specialist in trial work and half a general practitioner. Although this at times leaves very few free moments, there are relatively few dull ones.
With the war, much of the office went into the service and the rest of us apportioned among us who would take government jobs and who would stay put. I lost out and stayed home. Home, by that time, in spite of my 1932 vows, was Cambridge to which, as our family grew, we moved with some misgivings.
We should have had none. It is a thoroughly agreeable place to live. Summers we move further out, and at all possible times engage in our favorite occupation-cruising. I have had some kind of a liveable sailboat since 1924, and if I die with my boots on, hope that they will be sneakers."
Bailey Aldrich was born in Massachusetts, the only child of Talbot Bailey Aldrich 1868–1957 and Eleanor Lovell Little 1884–1978.
He married Elizabeth Perkins 1907–2000 in 1932. They had sons Jonathan and David.
Bailey Aldrich was appointed to the U.S. District Court in Boston in 1954 and advanced to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1959, He was one of the nation's longest-serving federal judges, hearing cases even after his 90th birthday. Aldrich grew up in Boston, and attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. His colleagues recorded his story in his own words in 1999 and stored the tape transcriptions in the United States Courthouse library in Boston.
Judge Aldrich stepped down in 1972 after seven years as chief judge. He was first named to the US bench in the District Court of Massachusetts by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954. Five years later he was appointed to the US Court of Appeals. In 1965 he was made chief judge.
He had served as president of Fruitlands Museums Inc.; secretary and a trustee of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals; and as a trustee of Boston University Medical Center and the Provident Institution for Savings. He was a member of the Union Club of Boston, the Society of Cincinnati, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Law Institute.
He died in his home.
Judge Aldrich was survived by two sons, Jonathan of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and David of Brookline; and four grandchildren.
***The Harvard Class of 1928 celebrated their 25th Anniversary in 1953 with a 1,000+ page book. Here is the life-since-graduation perspective he provided (edited for brevity):
YEARS IN COLLEGE: 1924-1928. DEGREES: A.B. cum laude, 1928; LL.B. cum laude, 1932.
OCCUPATION: General practice of law.
OFFICES HELD: Secretary, trustee, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, since 1938; trustee, Provident Institution for Savings, since 1942.
MEMBER OF: Union Club of Boston.
"FOLLOWING graduation, with a friend who agreed that it was now or never, I spent a year going ’round the world. After that came law school, which I was fortunate enough to like. It did not, however, make me want to move to Washington with a seeming majority of the law school Class of 1932, but I did say no more Cambridge--seven years was enough.
With such resolve I married and crossed the river to Boston, to become employed by the firm of which I am now a member. This firm is composed mostly of specialists of one kind or another, but in due course I became half a specialist in trial work and half a general practitioner. Although this at times leaves very few free moments, there are relatively few dull ones.
With the war, much of the office went into the service and the rest of us apportioned among us who would take government jobs and who would stay put. I lost out and stayed home. Home, by that time, in spite of my 1932 vows, was Cambridge to which, as our family grew, we moved with some misgivings.
We should have had none. It is a thoroughly agreeable place to live. Summers we move further out, and at all possible times engage in our favorite occupation-cruising. I have had some kind of a liveable sailboat since 1924, and if I die with my boots on, hope that they will be sneakers."
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