Brookline High School

Edmund Valentine Sexton “Ed, Eddie”

Edmund Valentine Sexton (“Ed, Eddie”) was one of 219 graduates in the class of 1927 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. Printed details: activities listed: Tennis Team and Sagamore Board; lived at 21 Garrison Road; born in 1910. Portrait and entry from the 1927 yearbook, page 72.

Class of 1927

219 in the class of 1927 · 15 more named Sexton

Full name: Edmund Valentine Sexton
Known as: Ed, Eddie
Born: B. February 15, 1910. Fitchburg, Mass.
Lived at: 21 Garrison Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Course: College
Ambition: “To benefit the world”
Pastime: “Tennis”

Also searched as: Ed Sexton; Edmund Sexton; Edmund V. Sexton; Sexton, Edmund.

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Household 1
Clubs & teams 234
Neighbours 1
Same surname 11
Classmates 218

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 219 names from the Brookline High School class of 1927, Edmund stands 185th. Find Edmund on page 72 of the scan; the people on this site from the Brookline High School class of 1927 are spread over pages 26 to 81. Counting Edmund, “Tennis Team” is named by 6 people in the Brookline High School class of 1927. Edmund's course, College, is also the course of 71 others in the 209 entries that print one (34% in all). This site lists 219 names for the class of 1927, against 171 for 1926 and 232 for 1928.

On the same scan page	Richard Humphrey Sears, Saul I. Selya, Estelle Harriet Serber
Same club	Tennis Team: 5 other classmates
Same course	College: 72 of 209 classmates with a course (34%)

At home, 21 Garrison Road

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Paul SextonBrookline 1924

The 1931 city directory lists Edmund Valentine Sexton with the occupation “student” (page).

The 1928 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Sexton at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

John E Sexton (wife Annie L) householderpage
Estella M Sexton, tehr lived herepage
George A Sexton, garage lived herepage
Louis J Sexton, n*gr lived herepage
Paul R Sexton, student lived herepage
Vera A Sexton, teacher lived herepage

The Sexton household is listed here in 1920, 1925 and 1931 too.

What Edmund did at school

Tennis Team 55
Sagamore Staff ’24 153
Sagamore Board 5
Costume Manager, Senior Social ’24 176
Costume Manager, Spanish Play ’24 28
Costume Manager, Dramatics ’25 213
Usher, Class Day ’26 208
Usher, Dramatics ’26 213
Usher, Prize Speaking ’27 30
Senior Gift Committee ’27
Marshal ’25

Fellow members from Edmund's own class:

What the yearbook said

Silence is deep as eternity; speech shallow as time

Also grew up on Garrison Road

Susanne Hoagland RickerBrookline 1924

The class of 1927

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1927, page 72. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1927broo).

Published 1927, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Public Library of Brookline via the Internet Archive.

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