Cambridge High and Latin School

Margaret Mary Lyons “Peggy”

Margaret Mary Lyons (“Peggy”) 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 Morse School; headed for Stenographer; lived at 12 Woodbridge Street.

Class of 1926

462 in the class of 1926 · 60 more named Lyons

Full name: Margaret Mary Lyons
Known as: Peggy
Lived at: 12 Woodbridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Came from: Morse School
Headed for: Stenographer

Also searched as: Peggy Lyons; Margaret Lyons; Margaret M. Lyons; Maggie Lyons.

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Neighbours 5
Same surname 55
Classmates 461
Same schools 133

In context

Of the 462 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 read for this site, Margaret's is 261st alphabetically. Turning the scan to page 89 shows Margaret; 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, 47 (12%) named going to work, as Margaret did (“Stenographer”). The first name Margaret appears 144 times in the 16 Cambridge High and Latin School classes read for this site (1914 to 1930), most often in 1926 (19). A college or university was the plan of 197 of 355 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1926 (55%), compared with 54% in 1925 and 54% in 1927.

On the same scan page	John Francis Lyons, Jewell MacArthur, James Patrick McCafferty
Same earlier school	Morse School: 22 other classmates
Same kind of plan	work: 47 of 388 classmates with a plan (12%)
Same first name	Margaret: 18 other people in the class

At home, 12 Woodbridge Street

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

Peter J Lyons, police Sta householderpage

The Lyons household is listed here in 1928 and 1930 too.

What the yearbook said

You'd hardly think she’s one of us, Because she never makes a fuss!

Also grew up on Woodbridge Street

The class of 1926

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Others named Lyons

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Also came from Morse School

Also headed for Stenographer

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1926, page 89. 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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