Cambridge High and Latin School

Henry Hoffman “Henny”

Class of 1923, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Henry Hoffman (“Henny”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Business College; activities listed: Year Book Board; lived at 98 Hampshire Street. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 70.

Class of 1923

319 in the class of 1923 · 42 more named Hoffman

Full name: Henry Hoffman
Known as: Henny
Born: August 28, 1905
Lived at: 98 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1923
Came from: Easttown Grammar School, Berwyn, Pa
Headed for: Business College

Also searched as: Henny Hoffman; Hoffman, Henry.

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Household 2
Group photos 5
Neighbours 30
Same surname 23
Classmates 318
Same schools 48

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 319 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1923, Henry stands 126th. Henry is printed on page 70 of the scan, around the middle of the 39-to-119 run of portrait pages. Business or secretarial school was the plan of 37 of the 253 classmates who printed one (15%), and Henry is listed with “Business College”. In the 13 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School between 1915 and 1930 that this site covers, 30 people have the first name Henry, with the largest group (5) in 1927. Plans for a college or university made up 55% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1923 (119 of 217), against 63% in 1922 and 50% in 1924.

On the same scan page	Nina L. Herman, Jerome Higgins, Edwin James Hodder
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 37 of 253 classmates with a plan (15%)
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 98 Hampshire Street

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

The 1928 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Hoffman at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Elmer E Hoffman, student lived herepage

Also pictured in group photographs

Faces matched to caption names, and confirmed against Henry's senior portrait.

Spanish Club1923

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What Henry did at school

Year Book Board
Get-Together Committee 1921

What the yearbook said

GREAT THOUGHTS WITHIN HIM LIE; HIS KNOWLEDGE OFTTIMES DOES SURPRISE

Great thoughts within him lie; his knowledge ofttimes does surprise.

Also grew up on Hampshire Street

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1923, page 70. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1923unse).

Published 1923, 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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