Brookline High School

John Thomas Donohue “Jack, Jiggs”

John Thomas Donohue (“Jack, Jiggs”) is one of 179 graduates in the class of 1925 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1925 yearbook entry gives: activities listed: Hockey and Year Book Committee; lived at 40 Eliot Crescent.

Class of 1925

179 in the class of 1925 · 16 more named Donohue

Full name: John Thomas Donohue
Known as: Jack, Jiggs
Lived at: 40 Eliot Crescent, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1925
Ambition: “Just to succeed”
Pastime: “Golf and walking”

Also searched as: Jack Donohue; John Donohue; John T. Donohue; Johnny Donohue.

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Household 3
Clubs & teams 48
Neighbours 4
Same surname 10
Classmates 178

In context

Going through the Brookline High School class of 1925 from A to Z by surname, John is the 44th of 179 names on this site. In the scan, John appears on page 40, in the first third of the run of 179 portraits read for this site (pages 26 to 84). In the Brookline High School class of 1925, 7 entries mention “Year Book Committee”; John's is one of them. The first name John runs through 9 classes of Brookline High School (1923 to 1931), 52 people in all, and is most common in 1931 (11). Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1925 has 179 entries, while the neighbouring classes have 118 for 1924 and 171 for 1926.

On the same scan page	Fulford F. Dexter, Mary Elizabeth Donovan
Same club	Hockey: 9 other classmates
Same club	Year Book Committee: 6 other classmates
Same first name	John: 5 other people in the class

At home, 40 Eliot Crescent

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

The 1928 city directory lists John Thomas Donohue with the occupation “salesman” (page).

The 1925 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Donohue at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

John F Donohue (wife Delia E) householderpage
Mary J Donohue, student lived herepage

The Donohue household is listed here in 1920, 1928 and 1931 too.

What John did at school

Fellow members from John's own class:

Also grew up on Eliot Crescent

The class of 1925

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Others named Donohue

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

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1925, page 40. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1925broo).

Published 1925, 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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