Boston Latin School

James H. Payne Jr

James H. Payne Jr, Boston Latin School class of 1926 (Boston, Massachusetts). The entry prints: headed for Harvard; a motto.

Class of 1926

104 in the class of 1926 · 34 more named Payne

Full name: James H. Payne Jr
School: Boston Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Headed for: Harvard
Ambition: “Errand boy.”

Also searched as: Jim Payne; James Payne; Jimmy Payne; Payne, James.

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Same surname 16
Classmates 103
Same schools 229

In context

This site lists 104 people from the Boston Latin School class of 1926; sorted by surname, James comes 78th. James's portrait is on scan page 39, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 18 to 45. With 5 people called James, it ranks 3rd among first names in the class. James's plan is printed as “Harvard”, which counts here as a college or university; 88 of the 92 classmates who named a plan (96%) named the same kind. Among first names, the class of 1926 favours John (11), Joseph (6) and James (5); the class of 1927 had Joseph (8), Francis (7) and John (7).

On the same scan page	Edward J. Powers, Edward Stephen Prendergast, Lawrence Elias Putnam
Same kind of plan	college or university: 88 of 92 classmates with a plan (96%)
Same first name	James: 4 other people in the class

What the yearbook said

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Boston Latin School yearbook, 1926, page 39. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item latinschoolregi1926bost_4).

Published 1926, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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