Brookline High School

Martin Richard Ford “Birdie, Glide”

Martin Richard Ford (“Birdie, Glide”) is one of 219 graduates in the class of 1927 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1927 yearbook entry gives: activities listed: Boys’ Glee Club and Art Club; lived at 780 Boylston Street; born in 1908.

Class of 1927

219 in the class of 1927 · 80 more named Ford

Full name: Martin Richard Ford
Known as: Birdie, Glide
Born: B. November 7, 1908.
Lived at: 780 Boylston Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Course: Commercial

Also searched as: Martin Ford; Martin R. Ford; Ford, Martin.

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Household 2
Clubs & teams 219
Neighbours 39
Same surname 59
Classmates 218

In context

This site lists 219 people from the Brookline High School class of 1927; sorted by surname, Martin comes 55th. The entry is on page 40 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 26 to page 81. Commercial was the course of 40 out of 209 classmates who printed one (19%), including Martin. Martin is listed under “Art Club”, along with 16 other classmates. The class of 1927: 75% of classifiable plans point to a college or university, versus 68% in 1926 and 78% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Julia Anna Ford, Edith Freedman, Jessica Josephine Freedman
Same street	Boylston Street: 7 other classmates
Same club	Boys’ Glee Club: 4 other classmates
Same club	Art Club: 16 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 40 of 209 classmates with a course (19%)

At home, 780 Boylston Street

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

The 1928 city directory lists Martin Richard Ford with the occupation “student” (page).

The 1928 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Ford at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Anna Ford, stenographer lived herepage
Catherine M Ford, stenographer lived herepage
Josephine V Ford, stenographer lived herepage
Martin R Ford, student lived herepage
Winifred F Ford, clerk lived herepage

The Ford household is listed here in 1920, 1925 and 1931 too.

What Martin did at school

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What the yearbook said

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Also grew up on Boylston Street

The class of 1927

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Others named Ford

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1927, page 40. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1927broo).

Published 1927, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Public Library of Brookline via the Internet Archive.

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