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Martha Frothingham Ritchie, Brookline High School Class of 1898
1881 - 1945; married Austin D Jenkins; lived at 268 Walnut Terrace
First cousin of John Reginold Marvin. Their grandfather Edward S. Ritchie was an inventor and the founder of E.S. Ritchie & Son, a manufacturer of nautical compasses and scientific instruments in Brookline Village. She worked for a time as a teacher. She married the architect Austin Jenkins in 1911 and moved to the Chicago area.
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Ethel Ward Towle, Brookline High School Class of 1898
1880 - 1949; married George Haslet; born in Stafford Springs, CT; Father: Edward David Towle; lived at 31 Kent Sq.;
Her father was pastor of Brookline’s Second Unitarian Church, which was formed in 1896 and moved into its new building (now Temple Sinai) on Sewall Avenue in 1901. He was later pastor in Hillsborough, NH where, in 1921, he presided at Ethel’s marriage to widower George Haslet, president of the Hillsborough Woolen Mills. George died in 1928. Ethel moved to Boston where she died 21 years later.
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Isabel McCleary, Brookline High School Class of 1898
1878 - 1915; born in Somerville; father: William C. McCleery;
Daughter of William C. McCleery, a button manufacturer, and his wife Ada. She lived at various times in Boston and Newton and appears only to have been Brookline for a short time. She married Stephen G. Doig, a lawyer, and died in 1915 at the age of 38, the shortest life by far of this generally long-lived group.
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Beulah Duncklee, Brookline High School Class of 1898
1879 - 1969; daughter of Charles Tilton Duncklee and Sadie J. Brown; married Edward Bugbee; lived at 24 Williams St.
Daughter of Charles T. Duncklee, an attorney, and Sarah J. Duncklee. In 1901 she married Edward Bugbee , a Brookline native and a teacher of mining engineering and metallurgy at MIT . They lived in Brighton, though Beulah moved back to Brookline after her husband’s death.
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Grace Bartlett Farquhar, Brookline High School Class of 1898
1880 - 1982; married Frederick Levitt; buried in Walnut Hills Cemetery; lived at 26 Gorham Ave.
Daughter of Joseph Farquhar, owner of a roofing company, she married at a younger age (21) than the other BHS grads in the photos. Her husband, Frederick Leavitt, was in the real estate and insurance business in Brookline and also served in town and country government. They lived in Brookline and later in Arlington. Grace died in Barnstable in 1982, having outlived all of the others in this group of BHS students.
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Ella C. Fenno, Brookline High School Class of 1897(?)
1878 - 1936; married, 1904, married Charles Clough; lived at 3 Kilsyth Rd.
She is the only student not to appear in her own, formal, photo. Instead, she appears here with her arm around Helen Jones, one of four pictures of Helen in the Grace Mason set. Ella married Charles Clough, an insurance executive, in 1904. (They are mentioned together in Boston Globe social columns in 1900 (at a dance) and 1901 (at a Clough family home in Maine). Charles survived Ella by more than 30 years.
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Maude Barrows Dutton, Brookline High School Class of 1898 (photo inscribed "1894".)
1880 - 1959; father: Samuel Train Dutton; attended Smith College; married: Frederick Lynch in N.Y in 1909; lived at 33 Colburne crescent;
Daughter of Samuel Train Dutton, the superintendent of schools in Brookline from 1890 to 1900. She moved to New York with her father when he became superintendent of the Horace Mann Schools run by Teachers College, Columbia University. Maud also followed her father in the education field, authoring a series of children’s books on "The World of Work" and on different countries and cultures. She married the Congregational minister, editor, and peace activist Frederick Lynch in 1909.
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Sabina Marshall [speculative], Brookline High School Class of 1898
This is probably Sabina Marshall who lived at 69 Summit Ave.
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Wilder Dwight, Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil War
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Wilder Dwight, Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil War
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Civil War Meeting
Far right: Captain George M. Barnard, born 1835 in Brookline
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Howard Dwight
Brother of Wilder Dwight
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Brookline High School, 1921, Teacher Student Council
Mary Sawyer, 2nd from right; Alice Howard Spaulding, center.
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Brookline High School, 1921,Girls Debating Club
REAR: M. Colby, B. Chandler, E. Neal, B. Rosenau, N. Van Ulm; FRONT: L. Hunnewell, Miss Dodge, Mary Sawyer, R. Vachon
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Brookline High School, 1922, Girls League Officers
REAR: M. Bryant, E. Johnson, F. Small, K. Matsuki. FRONT: C. Rowe, L. Briggs, M. Colby, Mary Sawyer, M. Prentiss
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Brookline High School, 1923, Girls League
Mary Sawyer, front row, 2nd from left
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Mary Sawyer, High School Dean of Girls, 1933
From the pamphlet entitled Brookline School Photos, Taken and Finished by the Guidance Department, 1933
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Dr. Charles Wild, 1793-1864
Photo from a carte de visite by Case & Getchell, 1862
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Dr. Charles Wild, 1793-1864
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Edward Augustus Wild
A physician who started in the practice of his physician father, Charles Wild; Brigadier-General in the Civil War who lost his left arm in the battle of South Mountain and who later commanded an African-American regiment; a swashbuckling figure in foreign escapades.
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