Cambridge High and Latin School

Elsie Crabtree “Billie”

Elsie Crabtree (“Billie”) is one of 483 graduates in the class of 1930 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1930 yearbook entry gives: headed for Business College; activities listed: G. A. A and Class Notes; lived at 179 Chestnut Street.

Class of 1930

483 in the class of 1930 · 8 more named Crabtree

Full name: Elsie Crabtree
Known as: Billie
Lived at: 179 Chestnut Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Came from: Morse Grammar School
Headed for: Business College

Also searched as: Billie Crabtree; Crabtree, Elsie.

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Clubs & teams 234
Neighbours 28
Same surname 6
Classmates 482
Same schools 69

In context

Elsie Crabtree is number 89 of 483 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930 on this site. In the scan, Elsie appears on page 39, in the first third of the run of 483 portraits read for this site (pages 21 to 118). The first name Elsie appears 14 times in the 8 Cambridge High and Latin School classes read for this site (1915 to 1930). Among the 430 people in the class who printed a plan, 89 (21%) named a business or secretarial school, as Elsie did (“Business College”). Of the 371 plans printed for the class of 1930 that name a kind of next step, 206 (56%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring class has 56% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Agatha Geraldine Crawley, Robert C. Creel, Christopher Cornelius Cremins, Marian Elizabeth Cullivan
Same earlier school	Morse Grammar School: 25 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 89 of 430 classmates with a plan (21%)

At home, 179 Chestnut Street

The 1930 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Crabtree at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Ivy T Crabtree (wife Elizabeth), machinist householderpage

The Crabtree household is listed here in 1920, 1921, 1925, 1927 and 1928 too.

What Elsie did at school

G. A. A. 522
Class Notes

Fellow members from Elsie's own class:

What the yearbook said

And cloudy the day, or stormy the night

And cloudy the day, or stormy the night The sky of her heart was always bright

Also grew up on Chestnut Street

The class of 1930

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Others named Crabtree

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Also came from Morse Grammar School

Also headed for Business College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1930, page 39. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1930unse).

Published 1930, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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