Brookline High School

Henry William Lynch “Ira”

Henry William Lynch (“Ira”) was one of 232 graduates in the class of 1928 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. Printed details: headed for Dartmouth; activities listed: Football and Baseball; lived at 71 Toxteth Street. Portrait and entry from the 1928 yearbook, page 61.

Class of 1928

232 in the class of 1928 · 98 more named Lynch

Full name: Henry William Lynch
Known as: Ira
Lived at: 71 Toxteth Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Course: College Prep
Headed for: Dartmouth
Ambition: “To get into Dartmouth”
Pastime: “Playing ball”

Also searched as: Ira Lynch; Henry Lynch; Henry W. Lynch; Lynch, Henry.

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Household 2
Clubs & teams 220
Neighbours 2
Same surname 82
Classmates 231
Same schools 38

In context

Of the 232 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1928 read for this site, Henry's is 136th alphabetically. In the scan, Henry appears on page 61, around the middle of the run of 232 portraits read for this site (pages 26 to 87). College or university was the plan of 63 of the 119 classmates who printed one (53%), and Henry is listed with “Dartmouth”. Henry is one of 33 listed under College Prep among the 229 classmates whose course is printed (14%). Of the 229 entries in the class of 1928 that print a course, 102 (45%) are college or college-preparatory, where the neighbouring classes have 44% in 1927 and 36% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Marion Kemp Lyons, Henry S. Mack, Mark Joseph Mackey
Same club	Football: 11 other classmates
Same club	Baseball: 17 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 63 of 119 classmates with a plan (53%)
Same course	College Prep: 33 of 229 classmates with a course (14%)

At home, 71 Toxteth Street

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

The 1931 city directory lists Henry William Lynch with the occupation “student” (page).

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

James J Lynch (wife Louise M), Iwyr B householderpage
Donald F Lynch, student lived herepage
James J Lynch Jr., student lived herepage

The Lynch household is listed here in 1925 and 1931 too.

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1928, page 61. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1928broo).

Published 1928, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Public Library of Brookline via the Internet Archive.

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