Newton High School

Mortimer Blake Crossman

Mortimer Blake Crossman is one of 147 graduates in the class of 1915 at Newton High School, Newton, Massachusetts. The 1915 yearbook entry gives: came from Mason Grammar School; headed for Bowdoin; lived at 97 Lake Ave., Newton Centre.

Class of 1915

147 in the class of 1915 · 14 more named Crossman

Full name: Mortimer Blake Crossman
Born: June 20, 1897.
Lived at: 97 Lake Ave., Newton Centre
School: Newton High School
Graduated: Class of 1915
Course: Classical
Came from: Mason Grammar School
Headed for: Bowdoin

Also searched as: Mortimer Crossman; Mortimer B. Crossman; Crossman, Mortimer.

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Household 1
Neighbours 5
Same surname 12
Classmates 146
Same schools 69

In context

147 people from the Newton High School class of 1915 appear on this site, and Crossman puts Mortimer 30th among them. Find Mortimer on page 27 of the scan; the people on this site from the Newton High School class of 1915 are spread over pages 21 to 54. Of the 145 entries in the class with a course, 88 (61%) say Classical, Mortimer's among them. Mason Grammar School appears as the earlier school of 28 people in the class, Mortimer among them. Of the 91 plans printed for the class of 1915 that name a kind of next step, 73 (80%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 94% in 1914 and 92% in 1916.

On the same scan page	Edythe Estelle Clarke, Frances Kneeland Connearney, Frederic Wingate Corson, Thomas Edward Cutler
Same earlier school	Mason Grammar School: 27 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 73 of 102 classmates with a plan (72%)
Same course	Classical: 88 of 145 classmates with a course (61%)

At home, 97 Lake Ave., Newton Centre

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Ruth Alden CrossmanNewton 1919

What the yearbook said

Debating Club, 1914-15. Secretary of the Nut Club, 1914-15.

Also grew up on Lake Ave., Newton Centre

The class of 1915

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Others named Crossman

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Also came from Mason Grammar School

Also headed for Bowdoin

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Source

Newton High School yearbook, 1915, page 27. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item newtonian1915newt).

Published 1915, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Newton Free Library via the Internet Archive.

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