William Bridgham Nulty (1888 - 1953)

Born 28 Jan 1888 in Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Marie (Shea) Nulty — married 27 Nov 1912 in Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, USA

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Biography

Facts

NAME
William Bridgham Nulty ^{[1] [2] [3]}
Bridgham Nulty ^[4]
Wm. B. Nulty ^[5]

SEX
Male

BIRTH
ABT 1888; Maine, United States ^[5]
28 JAN 1888; Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, United States ^{[2] [6] [7] [8]}
ABT 1889; Maine, United States ^[9]

DEATH
11 SEP 1953 ^{[3] [10]}

EDUCATION
C - 4 ^[11]

GRADUATION
1910; Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, United States ^[1]

OCCUPATION
Teacher ^[1]
Lawyer ^{[1] [10]}
BET 16 MAR 1949 AND 1953; Associate Justice ^[1]
1920; Lawyer, general practice ^[9]
1925; Assistant District Attorney ^[12]
1930; Lawyer, general practice ^[7]
1940; Lawyer, private practice ^[5]
BET 1943 AND 1947; Commissioner, Portland [Maine] Housing Authority ^[13]

RESIDENCE
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States ^[10]
1900; Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, United States ^[6]
1910; Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, United States ^[2]
1912; Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States ^[14]
BET 1917 AND 1920; 72 Grant St., Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States ^{[8] [9]}
1930; 193 Dartmouth St., Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States ^[7]
1935; Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States ^[5]
1940; 9 Bowdoin St., Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States ^[5]

FAMILY
Husband
William Bridgham Nulty
Wife
Anna Marie Shea
Marriage
27 NOV 1912; Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, United States ^[15]
27 NOV 1912; Maine, United States ^{[7] [14]}

Research Notes

"William Bridgham Nulty, of the Class of 1910 [Bowdoin College], cum laude, of Portland. One time school teacher, who then studied law, soon noted as a lawyer of ability - sound, fair, and of superior knowledge; a distinguished judge, respected by colleagues and citizens alike throughout the State of Maine; maintaining balance and perspective in the everyday affairs of life. Robert Ingersoll once said, 'We have to make judges of men. Here the opposite was true, for here was a man made to be a judge.'

Honoris Causa, DOCTOR OF LAWS"

According to his World War I draft registration, he was of medium height and build, with brown eyes and dark brown hair.

From the "Portland Press Herald," Portland, Maine, Sept. 5, 1947, p. 1, with photo,

Judicial Appointees -- Vacancies in Maine's Supreme and Superior Courts, occasioned by deaths of two justices, will be filled by elevation of Justice Edward P. Murray, left, Bangor, from Superior to Supreme Court and appointment of William B. Nulty, right, Portland, to the Superior Court.

From "The New York Times," Sept. 12, 1953,

Justice W. B. Nutley [sic] of Maine Bench, 65

Boston, Sept. 11--Associate Justice William B. Nulty of the Maine Supreme Court died today at the Phillips House of the Massachusetts General Hospital, at the age of 65. He had been on the Supreme Court bench since 1949.

Justice Nulty, a lawyer in Portland, Me., since 1917, also had served two years on the Superior Court. He was Assistant United States Attorney for Maine from 1922 to 1933.

He was born at Buckfield, the son of Henry H. and Lucretia Bridgham Nulty, and in 1910 was graduated from Bowdoin College.

After graduation, he taught chemistry and physics at South Portland High and coached baseball, football and track. He transferred to Portland High to teach commercial subjects.

He studied law in a Portland office, which he subsequently joined, and at Columbia and the University of Maine.

Justice Nulty was a member of the original Maine State Boxing Commission, 1939 to 1940. He was appointed in 1947 to the Superior Court by Gov. Horace A. Hildreth, now Ambassador to Pakistan, and elevated to the Supreme Court two years later.

Prominent in Masonic circles, Justice Nulty was a thirty-second degree Mason and a past potentate of Kora Shrine. He also was a past president of Rotary and a member of county, state and national bar associations.

The justice had been ill since May, entering the hospital that month, several weeks after the death of his wife, the former Anna Marie Wright of Lisbon Falls, Me.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Source: Title: internet , Page: http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/subject/bowdoin/honors/Nulty53.pdf
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Source: Title: "1910 Census" , Page: Maine, Buckfield, Oxford Co., Roll T624_543, p. 61A , Repository name: www.ancestry.com
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Source: Title: "New York Times" , Page: Sept. 12, 1953 , Repository name: www.ancestry.com
4. ↑ Source: Title: "Maine City Directories" , Page: Portland, 1931-32, p. 244 , Repository name: www.ancestry.com
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4} Source: Title: "1940 Census" , Page: Portland, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: T627_1476; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 3-89 , Repository name: www.ancestry.com
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Source: Title: "1900 Census" , Page: p. 66 , Repository name: www.ancestry.com
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} Source: Title: "1930 Census" , Page: Maine, Portland, Cumberland Co., Roll 831, p. 2A , Repository name: www.ancestry.com
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Source: Title: "World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918" , Repository name: www.ancestry.com
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2} Source: Title: "1920 Census" , Page: Maine, Portland, Cumberland Co., Roll T625_640, p. 3A , Repository name: www.ancestry.com
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} Source: Title: internet , Page: http://www.state.me.us/legis/lawlib/judge-c.htm
11. ↑ Source: Title: "1940 Census" , Page: Year: 1940; Census Place: Portland, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: m-t0627-01476; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 3-89 , Repository name: www.ancestry.com
12. ↑ Source: Title: "Maine City Directories" , Page: Portland, 1925, p. 935 , Repository name: www.ancestry.com
13. ↑ Source: Title: internet , Page: http://www.porthouse.org/board_hist.html
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1} Source: Title: "Maine Marriages, 1892-1996" , Repository name: www.ancestry.com
15. ↑ Source: Title: Maine Marriage Records , Repository name: www.ancestry.com