Jonas Cutting (November 3, 1800 – August 19, 1876), of

Bangor, Maine Bangor ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Penobscot County. The city proper has a population of 31,753, making it the state's 3rd-largest settlement, behind Portland (68,408) and Lewiston (37,121). Modern Bangor ...

, was a justice of the

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from April 20, 1854, to April 20, 1875. Born in Croydon, New Hampshire, Cutting graduated from

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in 1823, and

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to gain admission to the bar in 1826. He settled in

, in 1831, and was appointed as an associate justice on April 20, 1854, by Governor William G. Crosby, serving in that capacity until his retirement on April 20, 1875. He died in Bangor.Maine Genealogy Archives
Maine Supreme Judicial Court Justices, 1820-1920

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Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court People from Bangor, Maine People from Croydon, New Hampshire 1800 births 1876 deaths Dartmouth College alumni U.S. state supreme court judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law 19th-century American judges {{Maine-state-judge-stub