Cambridge High and Latin School

Mary Edna Gannon “Mae”

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed Mary Edna Gannon (“Mae”) among 462 graduates in the class of 1926. The entry gives: came from Kelley Grammar School; headed for Burdett College; lived at 3 Maple Avenue. Portrait and entry from the 1926 yearbook, page 62.

Class of 1926

462 in the class of 1926 · 10 more named Gannon

Full name: Mary Edna Gannon
Known as: Mae
Lived at: 3 Maple Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Came from: Kelley Grammar School
Headed for: Burdett College

Also searched as: Mae Gannon; Polly Gannon; Mary Gannon; Mary E. Gannon.

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Neighbours 22
Same surname 9
Classmates 461
Same schools 55

In context

Of the 462 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 that have pages here, Mary is 155th in surname order. Mary is printed on page 62 of the scan, in the first third of the 23-to-140 run of portrait pages. Maple Avenue runs through 10 Cambridge High and Latin School classes on this site (1918 to 1930); 23 people list it. Mary is one of 16 in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 whose entry names Kelley Grammar School as the school they came from. In the class of 1926, 55% of the plans we could classify (197 of 355) were a college or university; the neighbouring classes show 54% in 1925 and 54% in 1927.

On the same scan page	Frances E. Galvin, Reupen R. Garabedian, Theodore Gatto
Same street	Maple Avenue: 4 other classmates
Same earlier school	Kelley Grammar School: 15 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 53 of 388 classmates with a plan (14%)
Same first name	Mary: 28 other people in the class

At home, 3 Maple Avenue

The 1928 city directory lists Mary Edna Gannon with the occupation “stenographer” (page).

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

Thomas F Gannon (wife Helen C), foreman householderpage
John J Gannon, clerk lived herepage
Margaret A Gannon, stenographer lived herepage

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

What the yearbook said

A better friend we never knew, As good and kind as she is true

Also grew up on Maple Avenue

The class of 1926

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Others named Gannon

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Also came from Kelley Grammar School

Also headed for Burdett College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1926, page 62. 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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