Boston Latin School

Grant Gilmore “Gil”

Grant Gilmore (Scholar of commercial law and Article 9 drafter) is in the 1927 yearbook of Boston Latin School, Boston, Massachusetts. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates and what the book says.

Class of 1927

Before they were famous

Grant Gilmore Scholar of commercial law and Article 9 drafter

Grant Gilmore taught as a law professor at several universities, including Yale and the University of Chicago. He previously served in the U.S. Navy and taught French. He contributed to drafting Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code as a commercial law scholar. Additionally, he wrote books on admiralty and contract law.

Born: January 1, 1910, Boston
Died: 1982
Age in this yearbook: about 17
In the yearbook as: Grant Gilmore, Boston Latin School, class of 1927

How we know this is the same person: Name matches Grant Gilmore (born 1910); their Wikipedia article names Boston Latin School, and the age fits the class of 1926. Summary written from the Wikipedia article (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

122 in the class of 1927 · 26 more named Gilmore

Full name: Grant Gilmore
Known as: Gil
School: Boston Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Mary L. Brock School
Headed for: Yale

Also searched as: Gil Gilmore; Gilmore, Grant.

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Clubs & teams 70
Same surname 21
Classmates 121
Same schools 15

In context

This site lists 122 people from the Boston Latin School class of 1927; sorted by surname, Grant comes 36th. Grant is printed on page 359 of the scan, around the middle of the 347-to-381 run of portrait pages. Grant shared “French Club” with 14 classmates, going by what the yearbook prints. Grant's plan is printed as “Yale”, which counts here as a college or university; 92 of the 100 classmates who named a plan (92%) named the same kind. 97% of the graduates in the class of 1927 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 98% in 1926 and 98% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Leo Joseph Glennon, John Francis Glynn Jr
Same club	Debating Club: 5 other classmates
Same club	French Club: 14 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 92 of 100 classmates with a plan (92%)
The book's own title	Latin School Register

What Grant did at school

Reading Prize, 1925
Debating Club 32
Debating Team 32
French Club 96
Associate Editor, Register Staff, 1926-27 31
Yearbook
1st Lieutenant and Captain, 8th Co'mpany, 4th Regiment, 1926-27

Fellow members from Grant's own class:

What the yearbook said

Above the vulgar flight of common souls.

The class of 1927

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Others named Gilmore

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

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Also came from Mary L. Brock School

Also headed for Yale

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Source

Boston Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 359. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item latinschoolregi1926bost_5).

Published 1927, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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