Horace Gray #47 was Chief Justice of Massachusetts for years before he was nominated to the United States supreme court, he hired Massachusetts supreme courts, first clerk and future justice of the United States supreme court louis Brandeis.

Horace Gray autographs a letter written to friend chief justice Lemuel Shaw from the Massachusetts supreme court.

Also attached to the board is a check executed by mass. Chief justice Lemuel Shaw (1781-1861) executed by him while he was the sitting chief justice of Massachusetts supreme court. There is a steel engraving of justice gray.