Cambridge High and Latin School

Julia Dorothy Sweeney “Jule”

Julia Dorothy Sweeney (“Jule”) is one of 462 graduates in the class of 1926 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1926 yearbook entry gives: came from Harvard School; headed for Radcliffe; lived at 42 Fayette Street.

Class of 1926

462 in the class of 1926 · 64 more named Sweeney

Full name: Julia Dorothy Sweeney
Known as: Jule
Lived at: 42 Fayette Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Came from: Harvard School
Headed for: Radcliffe

Also searched as: Jule Sweeney; Julia Sweeney; Julia D. Sweeney; Sweeney, Julia.

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Household 1
Group photos 1
Neighbours 37
Same surname 59
Classmates 461
Same schools 70

In context

Going through the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 from A to Z by surname, Julia is the 421st of 462 names on this site. Turning the scan to page 130 shows Julia; the portraits we read from this book run from page 23 to page 140. Among the 388 people in the class who printed a plan, 197 (51%) named a college or university, as Julia did (“Radcliffe”). Julia is one of 32 in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 whose entry names Harvard School as the school they came from. Count the first names and the class of 1926 gives Mary (29), John (24) and Margaret (19), where the class of 1925 gives Mary (19), John (16) and William (12).

On the same scan page	Beatrice Magdalen Sutkus, Julia Rita Sutkus, Svea Swenson
Same earlier school	Harvard School: 31 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 197 of 388 classmates with a plan (51%)

At home, 42 Fayette Street

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Charles Bernard SweeneyCambridge 1929

The 1927 city directory lists Julia Dorothy Sweeney with the occupation “student R Coll” (page).

The 1926–27 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Sweeney at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Charles B Sweeney (wife Catherine F), printer householderpage
Julia D Sweeney, student R Coll lived herepage

The Sweeney household is listed here in 1921, 1925, 1928 and 1930 too.

Also pictured in group photographs

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

Debating1923

In the same photographs:

Walter H. McLaughlinCambridge 1924

What Julia did at school

Debating Team, 1923
Debating Council, 1923
Literary Club, 1926
Room Committee, 1924-25

What the yearbook said

Just look in room seventy-four On the Honor Roll opposite the door

Also grew up on Fayette Street

The class of 1926

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Others named Sweeney

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

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Also came from Harvard School

Also headed for Radcliffe

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1926, page 130. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1926unse).

Published 1926, 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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