Cambridge High and Latin School

Martha Mary Porter “Smiles”

Class of 1925, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Martha Mary Porter (“Smiles”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Putnam Grammar School; lived at 40 Spring Street; born in 1907. Portrait and entry from the 1925 yearbook, page 79.

Class of 1925

424 in the class of 1925 · 88 more named Porter

Full name: Martha Mary Porter
Known as: Smiles
Born: December 3, 1907
Lived at: 40 Spring Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1925
Came from: Putnam Grammar School
Headed for: Business

Also searched as: Smiles Porter; Martha Porter; Martha M. Porter; Porter, Martha.

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Neighbours 35
Same surname 71
Classmates 423
Same schools 99

In context

424 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1925 appear on this site, and Porter puts Martha 318th among them. Turning the scan to page 79 shows Martha; the portraits we read from this book run from page 29 to page 137. Counting Martha, 7 people in the class are listed as coming from Putnam Grammar School. Spring Street is the street of 4 other graduates of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1925 besides Martha. A college or university was the plan of 164 of 306 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1925 (54%), compared with 50% in 1924 and 55% in 1926.

On the same scan page	Ruth Pinkos, Anna R. Plummer, Edna Powers
Same street	Spring Street: 4 other classmates
Same earlier school	Putnam Grammar School: 6 other classmates
Same kind of plan	work: 45 of 365 classmates with a plan (12%)

At home, 40 Spring Street

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

Wm Porter (wife Mary M), laborer householderpage

The Porter household is listed here in 1928 too.

Also grew up on Spring Street

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Others named Porter

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Also came from Putnam Grammar School

Also headed for Business

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1925, page 79. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1925unse).

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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