Brookline High School

Elsa Davidson Cohen

Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts, listed Elsa Davidson Cohen among 251 graduates in the class of 1930. The entry gives: College course; activities listed: Orchestra and Girls' League; lived at 28 Russell Street. Portrait and entry from the 1930 yearbook, page 43.

Class of 1930

251 in the class of 1930 · 186 more named Cohen

Full name: Elsa Davidson Cohen
Lived at: 28 Russell Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Course: College
Pastime: “Concert violinist. I). Wellesley”

Also searched as: Elsa Cohen; Elsa D. Cohen; Cohen, Elsa.

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Household 1
Clubs & teams 367
Neighbours 9
Same surname 180
Classmates 250

In context

Elsa Davidson Cohen is number 34 of 251 in the alphabetical list of the Brookline High School class of 1930 on this site. Find Elsa on page 43 of the scan; the people on this site from the Brookline High School class of 1930 are spread over pages 35 to 103. People named Cohen appear in 5 classes of Brookline High School on this site between 1926 and 1931, 12 in all. Of the 237 entries in the class with a course, 72 (30%) say College, Elsa's among them. Among first names, the class of 1930 favours Mary (11), John (8) and Gertrude (7); the class of 1931 had William (12) and John (11).

On the same scan page	Virginia Chase, Anna Clark, Evelyn Louise Cohen
Same club	Orchestra: 14 other classmates
Same club	Girls' League: 132 other classmates
Same course	College: 72 of 237 classmates with a course (30%)

At home, 28 Russell Street

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

Marjorie CohenBrookline 1928

The 1931 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Cohen at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Julius J Cohen (wife Annie G), hat mfr householderpage

The Cohen household is listed here in 1928 too.

What Elsa did at school

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What the yearbook said

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind

Also grew up on Russell Street

The class of 1930

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Others named Cohen

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Brookline High School yearbook, 1930, page 43. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1930broo).

Published 1930, 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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