Cambridge High and Latin School

Robert Joseph Carr “Bos”

Robert Joseph Carr (“Bos”) is one of 459 graduates in the class of 1927 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1927 yearbook entry gives: came from Morse Grammar School; headed for Boston College; lived at 38 Glenwood Avenue.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 73 more named Carr

Full name: Robert Joseph Carr
Known as: Bos
Lived at: 38 Glenwood Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Morse Grammar School
Headed for: Boston College

Also searched as: Bos Carr; Bob Carr; Robert Carr; Robert J. Carr.

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Household 3
Group photos 11
Neighbours 9
Same surname 57
Classmates 458
Same schools 151

In context

Robert Joseph Carr is number 61 of 459 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 on this site. In the scan, Robert appears on page 44, in the first third of the run of 459 portraits read for this site (pages 29 to 145). There are 5 people named Robert in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927; the entry on this page is one of them. Robert's plan is printed as “Boston College”, which counts here as a college or university; 191 of the 393 classmates who named a plan (49%) named the same kind. Count the first names and the class of 1927 gives Mary (26), John (22) and Ruth (14), where the class of 1928 gives Mary (21), Margaret (18) and John (16).

On the same scan page	Marjorie Carman, Edward Francis Carney, Lynn Ebb Carr
Same earlier school	Morse Grammar School: 24 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 191 of 393 classmates with a plan (49%)
Same first name	Robert: 4 other people in the class
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

At home, 38 Glenwood Avenue

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

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

John F Carr (wife Mary T), janitor Morse sch householderpage
Edward P Carr, carrier lived herepage
Paul E Carr, clerk lived herepage

The Carr household is listed here in 1918, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1928 and 1930 too.

Also pictured in group photographs

Faces matched to caption names, and confirmed against Robert's senior portrait.

Baseball1927

In the same photographs:

What Robert did at school

Manager, Baseball, 1927

What the yearbook said

A youth of labor with an age of ease.

Also grew up on Glenwood Avenue

The class of 1927

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Others named Carr

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

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Also came from Morse Grammar School

Also headed for Boston College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 44. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1927unse).

Published 1927, 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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