Chelsea High School

Samuel Wolfson “Nigger”

Samuel Wolfson (“Nigger”) is one of 365 graduates in the class of 1931 at Chelsea High School, Chelsea, Massachusetts. The 1931 yearbook entry gives: a motto.

Class of 1931

365 in the class of 1931 · 10 more named Wolfson

Full name: Samuel Wolfson
Known as: Nigger
School: Chelsea High School
Graduated: Class of 1931

Spot a mistake? Wrong name Wrong photo Something else

Is Samuel part of your family? Tell us — we will send you the full-resolution scan.

Same surname 9
Classmates 364

In context

365 people from the Chelsea High School class of 1931 appear on this site, and Wolfson puts Samuel 362nd among them. Samuel's portrait is on scan page 49, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 12 to 64. Across 3 classes of Chelsea High School on this site, from 1925 to 1931, 20 people are named Samuel; the class of 1931 has the most, 8. Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1931 has 365 entries, while the neighbouring class has 307 for 1929. Printed in the book's front pages: “The Beacon”, edited by Lester Adelson.

On the same scan page	Lillian Winoker, Florence Wolf, Lena Wolfson, Ruth Wolfson and 3 more
Same first name	Samuel: 7 other people in the class
The book's own title	The Beacon (editor: Lester Adelson)

What the yearbook said

Popularly known as “Nigger." (We have craned and strained our necks to see why.) Another one of these he-men!

The class of 1931

All 365 in this class →

Others named Wolfson

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

All 10 people named Wolfson →

Look for Samuel Wolfson in other records

FamilySearch census, birth, marriage and death records (free account)
Internet Archive other yearbooks, city directories and town reports that mention the name
Chronicling America digitized newspapers at the Library of Congress

Do you know Samuel?

If Samuel is part of your family we would like to hear from you, and we will gladly send the full-resolution scan of this page.

Get in touch

Source

Chelsea High School yearbook, 1931, page 49. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item beacon1930chel).

Published 1931. Scan courtesy of Chelsea Public Library via the Internet Archive.

How this page was made: the name, portrait and printed details were read from the scan by software and checked against the page; a few in every hundred details are still wrong. How it works · Report an error · Standards