Cambridge High and Latin School

Mary Jean Holden

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed Mary Jean Holden among 421 graduates in the class of 1929. The entry gives: came from St. Peter’s School; headed for Normal School; lived at 321 Huron Avenue. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 72.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 29 more named Holden

Full name: Mary Jean Holden
Lived at: 321 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: St. Peter’s School
Headed for: Normal School

Also searched as: Polly Holden; Mary Holden; Mary J. Holden; Molly Holden.

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Neighbours 62
Same surname 24
Classmates 420
Same schools 43

In context

Mary Jean Holden is number 186 of 421 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 on this site. In the scan, Mary appears on page 72, around the middle of the run of 421 portraits read for this site (pages 25 to 132). Teacher training was the plan of 22 of the 364 classmates who printed one (6%), and Mary is listed with “Normal School”. With 28 people called Mary, it ranks 1st among first names in the class. A college or university was the plan of 174 of 308 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1929 (56%), compared with 58% in 1928 and 56% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Alma Louise Hollingsworth, Arthur Blair Hoyt, Frances Appleton Humphreys
Same street	Huron Avenue: 5 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 22 of 364 classmates with a plan (6%)
Same first name	Mary: 27 other people in the class
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 321 Huron Avenue

The 1930 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Holden at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Wm F Holden, shpr householderpage
Annie Holden, § drsmkr lived herepage
Flora Holden, teacher Haggerty sch lived herepage
John J Holden, chauffeur lived herepage
Julia T Holden, drsmkr lived herepage
Margaret E Holden lived herepage
Margaret F Holden, clerk lived herepage

The Holden household is listed here in 1919, 1921, 1925, 1927 and 1928 too.

What the yearbook said

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Also grew up on Huron Avenue

The class of 1929

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Also came from St. Peter’s School

Also headed for Normal School

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 72. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1929unse).

Published 1929, 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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