Salem Classical and High School

Ralph Alexander Ferguson

Ralph Alexander Ferguson was one of 298 graduates in the class of 1939 at Salem Classical and High School, Salem, Massachusetts. Printed details: lived at 29 Oakland Street. Portrait and entry from the 1939 yearbook, page 43.

Class of 1939

298 in the class of 1939 · 40 more named Ferguson

Full name: Ralph Alexander Ferguson
Lived at: 29 Oakland Street, Salem, Massachusetts
School: Salem Classical and High School
Graduated: Class of 1939

Also searched as: Ralph Ferguson; Ralph A. Ferguson; Ferguson, Ralph.

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Neighbours 3
Same surname 28
Classmates 297

In context

298 people from the Salem Classical and High School class of 1939 appear on this site, and Ferguson puts Ralph 99th among them. Ralph is printed on page 43 of the scan, in the first third of the 17-to-97 run of portrait pages. Names on this site: 298 for the class of 1939, compared with 260 for 1938 and 298 for 1940. The most common first names in the class of 1939 were Robert (19), John (17) and James (10); in the class of 1938 they were John (15), Ruth (11) and Richard (6).

On the same scan page	Philip Lindsay Emilio, Milton Flashner

What the page does not say. Nothing on clubs or activities appears for Ralph, though classmates' entries carry it (clubs or activities 66%); Ralph's entry may print it and have been mis-read, or not print it at all.

At home, 29 Oakland Street

The 1937 city directory lists Ralph Alexander Ferguson with the occupation “clerk Arth T Ferguson” (page).

The 1937 Salem City Directory (Sampson & Murdock) lists these people named Ferguson at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Ralph A Ferguson, clerk Arth T Ferguson lived herepage

The Ferguson household is listed here in 1935 too.

Also grew up on Oakland Street

The class of 1939

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Salem Classical and High School yearbook, 1939, page 43. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item salemhighschooly1939clas).

Published 1939. Scan courtesy of the contributing library via the Internet Archive.

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