Cambridge High and Latin School

Gertrude Alice Smithers “Bunny”

Gertrude Alice Smithers (“Bunny”) was one of 237 graduates in the class of 1919 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Webster Grammar School; lived at 14 Upton Street. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 44.

Class of 1919

237 in the class of 1919 · 2 more named Smithers

Full name: Gertrude Alice Smithers
Known as: Bunny
Lived at: 14 Upton Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1919
Came from: Webster Grammar School

Also searched as: Bunny Smithers; Gertie Smithers; Gertrude Smithers; Gertrude A. Smithers.

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Neighbours 9
Same surname 1
Classmates 236
Same schools 68

In context

237 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1919 appear on this site, and Smithers puts Gertrude 212th among them. In the scan, Gertrude appears on page 44, in the last third of the run of 237 portraits read for this site (pages 17 to 48). Gertrude is one of 25 in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1919 whose entry names Webster Grammar School as the school they came from. The first name Gertrude runs through 15 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School (1915 to 1930), 54 people in all. Count the first names and the class of 1919 gives Mary (13), Elizabeth (9) and Helen (8), where the class of 1920 gives Mary (17), John (10) and Anna (9).

On the same scan page	Margaret Louise Shaugnessy, Gertrude Elizabeth Shea, John Theodore Sleeper, Marion Catherine Smith and 3 more
Same earlier school	Webster Grammar School: 24 other classmates
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 14 Upton Street

The 1921 city directory lists Gertrude Alice Smithers with the occupation “bookkeeper” (page).

The 1919 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Smithers at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Bessie A Smithers, bookkeeper lived herepage

The Smithers household is listed here in 1918, 1920, 1921 and 1925 too.

Also grew up on Upton Street

The class of 1919

All 237 in this class →

Others named Smithers

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

Florence Rita SmithersMalden 1921

Also came from Webster Grammar School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1919, page 44. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1919unse).

Published 1919, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Cambridge Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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