Cambridge High and Latin School

Florence Mae York

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed Florence Mae York among 163 graduates in the class of 1915. The entry gives: came from Houghton Grammar School; activities listed: Picture Committee; lived at 17 Mt. Auburn Street. Portrait and entry from the 1915 yearbook, page 29.

Class of 1915

163 in the class of 1915 · 17 more named York

Full name: Florence Mae York
Lived at: 17 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1915
Came from: Houghton Grammar School
Headed for: business

Also searched as: Flo York; Florence York; Florence M. York; York, Florence.

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Household 1
Neighbours 27
Same surname 13
Classmates 162
Same schools 12

In context

Of the 163 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1915 that have pages here, Florence is 161st in surname order. Turning the scan to page 29 shows Florence; the portraits we read from this book run from page 8 to page 29. The first name Florence appears 40 times in the 14 Cambridge High and Latin School classes read for this site (1914 to 1930). Houghton Grammar School appears as the earlier school of 5 people in the class, Florence among them. Of the 89 plans printed for the class of 1915 that name a kind of next step, 36 (40%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring class has 46% in 1917.

On the same scan page	Minna Weiner, Gertrude Whiting, Edith Marjorie Wilkey, Margaret M. Wolfe and 2 more
Same earlier school	Houghton Grammar School: 4 other classmates
Same kind of plan	work: 24 of 120 classmates with a plan (20%)
The book's own title	Cambridge High and Latin School Year Book (editor: James F. Manning)

At home, 17 Mt. Auburn Street

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

Ruth YorkCambridge 1921

The 1921 city directory lists Florence Mae York with the occupation “stenographer” (page).

The 1917 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named York at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Frank S York (wife Mary J), salesman householderpage
Florence M York lived herepage

The York household is listed here in 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921 too.

What Florence did at school

Picture Committee

Also grew up on Mt. Auburn Street

The class of 1915

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Others named York

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

All 17 people named York →

Also came from Houghton Grammar School

Also headed for business

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1915, page 29. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1915unse).

Published 1915, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Cambridge Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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