Cambridge High and Latin School

Katherine Frances Kearsey “Kay”

Katherine Frances Kearsey (“Kay”) appears in the 1927 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 17 Cambridge Terrace. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 1 more named Kearsey

Full name: Katherine Frances Kearsey
Known as: Kay
Lived at: 17 Cambridge Terrace
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Peabody Grammar School
Headed for: Business College

Also searched as: Kay Kearsey; Kate Kearsey; Katherine Kearsey; Katherine F. Kearsey.

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Neighbours 13
Classmates 458
Same schools 123

In context

Of the 459 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 that have pages here, Katherine is 231st in surname order. In the scan, Katherine appears on page 87, around the middle of the run of 459 portraits read for this site (pages 29 to 145). Peabody Grammar School appears as the earlier school of 29 people in the class, Katherine among them. Business or secretarial school was the plan of 69 of the 393 classmates who printed one (18%), and Katherine is listed with “Business College”. The most common first names in the class of 1927 were Mary (26), John (22) and Ruth (14); in the class of 1928 they were Mary (21), Margaret (18) and John (16).

On the same scan page	Hyman Kawadler, Matthew T. Keaney, Mary Agnes Kearney
Same earlier school	Peabody Grammar School: 28 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 69 of 393 classmates with a plan (18%)
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

At home, 17 Cambridge Terrace

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

Mary E Kearsey, widow of Michael householderpage

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

What Katherine did at school

G. A. A., 1924–25
Room Committee, 1925

What the yearbook said

I know the thing that’s most uncommon, I know a reasonable woman.

Also grew up on Cambridge Terrace

The class of 1927

All 459 in this class →

Also came from Peabody Grammar School

Also headed for Business College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 87. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1927unse).

Published 1927, 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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