Cambridge High and Latin School

Gertrude Brooks “Brooksie”

Gertrude Brooks (“Brooksie”) was one of 196 graduates in the class of 1918 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Peabody Grammar School; lived at 16 Whittier Street. Portrait and entry from the 1918 yearbook, page 13.

Class of 1918

196 in the class of 1918 · 105 more named Brooks

Full name: Gertrude Brooks
Known as: Brooksie
Lived at: 16 Whittier Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1918
Came from: Peabody Grammar School

Also searched as: Brooksie Brooks; Gertie Brooks; Brooks, Gertrude.

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Neighbours 10
Same surname 78
Classmates 195
Same schools 55

In context

Gertrude Brooks is number 15 of 196 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1918 on this site. In the scan, Gertrude appears on page 13, right at the start of the run of 196 portraits read for this site (pages 12 to 39). The first name Gertrude appears 54 times in the 15 Cambridge High and Latin School classes read for this site (1915 to 1930). Brooks is the surname of 10 people across 10 Cambridge High and Latin School classes on this site, 1917 to 1930. Of the 90 plans printed for the class of 1918 that name a kind of next step, 42 (47%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 46% in 1917 and 60% in 1919.

On the same scan page	Anna Patrica Biggane, Margarita Bliss, Nellie Bloomberg, Effie Evelyn Blyther and 3 more
Same earlier school	Peabody Grammar School: 21 other classmates

At home, 16 Whittier Street

The 1918 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Brooks at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Clayton K Brooks (wife Grace H), ins householderpage

The Brooks household is listed here in 1920 too.

Also grew up on Whittier Street

The class of 1918

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Others named Brooks

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

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Also came from Peabody Grammar School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1918, page 13. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1918unse).

Published 1918, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Cambridge Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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