Cambridge High and Latin School

Florence Elizabeth Gans “Flossie”

Florence Elizabeth Gans (“Flossie”) was one of 424 graduates in the class of 1925 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Ellis Grammar School; headed for Business School; lived at 165 Raymond Street. Portrait and entry from the 1925 yearbook, page 49.

Class of 1925

424 in the class of 1925 · 8 more named Gans

Full name: Florence Elizabeth Gans
Known as: Flossie
Born: July 20, 1908
Lived at: 165 Raymond Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1925
Came from: Ellis Grammar School
Headed for: Business School

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Household 2
Neighbours 9
Same surname 3
Classmates 423
Same schools 58

In context

Of the 424 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1925 read for this site, Florence's is 136th alphabetically. Florence is printed on page 49 of the scan, in the first third of the 29-to-137 run of portrait pages. Florence has 4 first-name namesakes in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1925. The yearbook lists 32 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1925 as coming from Ellis Grammar School, including Florence. Plans for a college or university made up 54% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1925 (164 of 306), against 50% in 1924 and 55% in 1926.

On the same scan page	Mona Helen Fraleigh, Evelyn Frost
Same earlier school	Ellis Grammar School: 31 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 39 of 365 classmates with a plan (11%)
Same first name	Florence: 4 other people in the class

At home, 165 Raymond Street

Same surname, same address — very likely brothers and sisters.

The 1930 city directory lists Florence Elizabeth Gans with the occupation “stenographer” (page).

The 1925 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Gans at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Otto F Gans (wife Freida), machinist householderpage

The Gans household is listed here in 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1927, 1928 and 1930 too.

Also grew up on Raymond Street

The class of 1925

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Others named Gans

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

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Also came from Ellis Grammar School

Also headed for Business School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1925, page 49. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1925unse).

Published 1925, 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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