Brookline High School

Esther Elizabeth Coburn “Pansy”

Esther Elizabeth Coburn (“Pansy”), Brookline High School class of 1926 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: activities listed: Class Day Dance; lived at 4 Perry Street; a motto.

Class of 1926

171 in the class of 1926 · 14 more named Coburn

Full name: Esther Elizabeth Coburn
Known as: Pansy
Lived at: 4 Perry Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Pastime: “Talking and arguing, sewing”

Also searched as: Pansy Coburn; Esther Coburn; Esther E. Coburn; Coburn, Esther.

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Clubs & teams 74
Neighbours 19
Same surname 10
Classmates 170

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 171 names from the Brookline High School class of 1926, Esther stands 27th. The entry is on page 34 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 26 to page 80. The name Esther appears 5 times among the 171 names on this site from the class. In the Brookline High School class of 1926, 17 entries mention “Class Day Dance”; Esther's is one of them. Plans for a college or university made up 68% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1926 (36 of 53), against 71% in 1925 and 75% in 1927.

On the same scan page	Dorothea Barton Cogswell, Charles H. Cole
Same club	Class Day Dance: 16 other classmates
Same first name	Esther: 4 other people in the class

At home, 4 Perry Street

The 1928 city directory lists Esther Elizabeth Coburn with the occupation “clerk” (page).

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

Josiah Coburn householderpage
Esther E Coburn, clerk lived herepage
Frederick C Coburn lived herepage

What Esther did at school

Class Day Dance 173

Fellow members from Esther's own class:

What the yearbook said

4s merry as the day is long

Also grew up on Perry Street

The class of 1926

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Others named Coburn

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1926, page 34. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1926broo).

Published 1926, 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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