Cambridge High and Latin School

Thomas Paul O’Connell “Okey Tom”

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed Thomas Paul O’Connell (“Okey Tom”) among 459 graduates in the class of 1927. The entry gives: headed for Annapolis; activities listed: Year Book Staff; lived at 149 Walden Street. Portrait and entry from the Golden Treasury, page 114.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 73 more named O’Connell

Full name: Thomas Paul O’Connell
Known as: Okey Tom
Lived at: 149 Walden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Peabody Grammar School
Headed for: Annapolis

Also searched as: Tom O’Connell; Thomas O’Connell; Thomas P. O’Connell; Tommy O’Connell.

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Household 1
Group photos 13
Neighbours 36
Same surname 67
Classmates 458
Same schools 60

In context

Thomas Paul O’Connell is number 336 of 459 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 on this site. Turning the scan to page 114 shows Thomas; the portraits we read from this book run from page 29 to page 145. Thomas was not alone on Walden Street: 4 other classmates list it too. From 1915 to 1930, 49 Cambridge High and Latin School graduates on this site share the first name Thomas, spread over 15 classes and peaking at 8 in 1928. The most common first names in the class of 1927 were Mary (26), John (22) and Ruth (14); in the class of 1926 they were Mary (29), John (24) and Margaret (19).

On the same scan page	John Normile, Mary B. O’Brien, Elizabeth O’Connor
Same street	Walden Street: 4 other classmates
Same earlier school	Peabody Grammar School: 28 other classmates
Same first name	Thomas: 6 other people in the class
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

At home, 149 Walden Street

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

Margaret Helen O’ConnellCambridge 1929

Also pictured in group photographs

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

In the same photographs:

What Thomas did at school

Football, 1925–26
Year Book Staff
Spanish Club, 1926

What the yearbook said

Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat.

Also grew up on Walden Street

The class of 1927

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Others named O’Connell

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

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Also came from Peabody Grammar School

Also headed for Annapolis

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 114. 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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