Transcript Making Barnard History: Students from Queens 1889-1914

Making Barnard
History:
Students from Queens
1889-1914
Mollie Galchus
Professor McCaughey
Spring 2015
Question:
• From the period of 1889 to 1914, how many
Barnard students came from Queens?
• What areas of Queens were these students from?
• What high schools did they go to?
• What can this tell us about the student population
of Barnard?
Neighborhoods of Barnard Students, 1889-1914
JAMAICA
FLUSHING
WHITESTONE
WOODSIDE
ASTORIA (includes one
Steinway LI)
LITTLE NECK
ELMHURST
LONG ISLAND CITY
CORONA
RICHMOND HILL
FLORAL PARK
BAYSIDE
Neighborhoods
• JAMAICA: 11
• FLUSHING: 23
• WHITESTONE: 1
• WOODSIDE: 4
• ASTORIA: 13 (includes one Steinway LI)
• LITTLE NECK: 1
• ELMHURST: 3
• LONG ISLAND CITY: 5
• CORONA: 2
• RICHMOND HILL: 2
• FLORAL PARK: 1
• BAYSIDE: 1
• ROCKAWAY BEACH: 1
• BROOKLYN: 1 (went to Jamaica HS)
• OAKDALE: 1
• FOREST PARK: 1
• FAR ROCKAWAY: 1
• WOODHAVEN: 1
Neighborhoods
High Schools
Wadleigh HS: 1
Woodside HS: 4
Flushing HS: 14
Jamaica HS: 10
Bryant HS: 13
Richmond Hill HS: 1
Morris HS: 1
Vassar College and
Putnam Hall: 1
High Schools
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Wadleigh HS: 1 (in Manhattan, first public high school for girls, est.1902
Woodside HS: 4
Flushing HS: 14 (established 1875, oldest public high school in NYC)
Jamaica HS: 10 (established 1897)
Bryant HS: 13 (established 1889)
Richmond Hill HS: 1 (established 1889)
Morris HS: 1 (Bronx, established 1897)
Vassar College and Putnam Hall: 1 (Putnam, a boarding school for girls
was established in 1871)
Newton HS: 1 (in Elmhurst, Queens)
Brooklyn Girl HS: 1 (established 1886)
Lawrence HS: 1 (Cedarhurst, Long Island)
New HS: 1
= 49 students
High Schools
LIRR 1898
LIRR 1898
LIRR 1900 (lirrhistory.com)
1912 BMT Route Map (nycsubway.org)
1894
• III Year Class, Celeste Swenson, Flushing, NY
• II Year Class, May Bradford Harris, Flushing, NY
• Department of Botany (professor) Florence Louise
Dunn, Jamaica, LI
1895
• IV Year Class, Celeste (Castalia) Swenson,
Flushing NY
• III Year Class, May Bradford Harris, Flushing
NY
• II Year Class, Louise Brisbin Dunn, Jamaica NY
• 157 W. 111th Street (residence)
• I Year Class, Anna Irene Von Sholly, Flushing
NY
1897
• IV Year Class, May Bradford Harris, Flushing
NY
• III year Class, Louise Brisbin Dunn, Jamaica
NY
• 157 W. 111th Street (residence)
• II Year Class, Anna Irene Von Sholly, Flushing
NY
• Barnard Alumnae Association, Celeste
Swenson, Flushing NY Class of 1895
1898
• Senior Class, Louise Brisbin Dunn, Jamaica NY
• Junior Class, Anna Irene Von Sholly, Flushing NY
1899
• Senior Class, Anna Irene Von Sholly, Flushing NY
• Freshman Class, Clara Elizabeth Hudson, Astoria LI
• Freshman Class, Marie Elise Cameron, Woodside
NY
• Elizabeth Carpenter Roberts, Flushing NY
1900
• Sophomore Class, Clara Elizabeth Hudson, Astoria NY
• Sophomore Class, Elizabeth Carpenter Roberts,
Flushing NY
• Sophomore Class, Marie Elise Cameron, Woodside NY
• Freshman Class, Bertha Brown, Flushing NY
• Freshman Class, Adele Carll, Flushing NY
• Students in Music, Nina Mitchell, Flushing NY
1901
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Junior Class, Clara Elizabeth Hudson, Astoria NY
Junior Class, Marie Elise Cameron, Woodside NY
Junior Class, Elizabeth Carpenter Roberts, Flushing NY
Sophomore Class, Bertha Brown – now Bloomfield,
Canada???
Sophomore Class, Lydia Adele Carll, Whitestone, LI
Freshman Class, Carita Spencer, Flushing NY
Freshman Class, Louise Josephine Calvin Toscano,
Astoria NY
Freshman Class, Elizabeth Rae Walters, Little Neck NY
Music Students, Nina Mitchell, Flushing NY
1902
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Senior Class, Marie Elise Cameron, Woodside NY
Senior Class, Bertha Brown, Flushing NY
Senior Class, Clara Elizabeth Hudson, Astoria NY
Senior Class, Elizabeth Carpenter Roberts, Flushing NY
Sophomore Class, Carita Spencer, Flushing NY
Sophomore Class, Louise Josephine Calvin Toscano,
Astoria NY
• Sophomore Class, Elizabeth Rae Walters, Little Neck NY
• Special Students, Harriet Wright Burton, Woodside NY
1903
• Louise Josephine Calvin Toscano, Astoria NY
1904
Jeannette Wick, Elmhurst NY – Wadleigh HS, DOB: 1884, entered school 1900
1905
• Helen Beatrice Anderson, Astoria
NY – Woodside High and NY
Collegiate Inst. DOB: 4/18/82;
October ‘01
• Florence Evelyn Beers, Jamaica
NY – 174 Shelton Avenue,
Jamaica NY – 12/28/77; Oct ’03
(Mount Holyoke College 2 years)
• Florence Emily Bell, Flushing NY
– Long Island City (1902);
Flushing NY, Flushing HS;
6/26/83; Oct ‘01
• Abigail Adams Tablot, Flushing LI
1906
• No neighborhoods listed in the yearbook
1907
• Amalia Lowenthal, Woodside
LI – Greenpoint Ave, Woodside
NY, Woodside High, 11/20/87;
September ‘04
• Mary Ella Tibbits, Astoria, LI –
Mary Edla – 213 Temple
Street, Astoria LI – Woodside
High School; 5/4/83;
September ‘03
• Clara Elizabeth Smith,
Woodside NY – Woodside, LI –
Woodside High R.A.D.;
4/27/86; September 1903
1908
• Bessie Andrews Beers, Jamaica NY – 35
Clinton Place, Jamaica NY – Jamaica HS;
12/29/87; September 1904
• Thorborg Marie Brundin, Corona LI – 28 49th
Avenue LIC, 9/18/86; September 1904;
Bryant HS
• Marion Barton Crowell, Richmond Hill, LI 116 Jefferson Ave, Richmond Hill, Richmond
Hill High, 10/17/86; September 1904
• Maude Irene Klein, Floral Park, LI – Jamaica
HS, 2/12/85; September 1904
1909
• Mary Frances Godley, Bayside Road, Bayside NY – Flushing
HS, 5/7/87; September 1905
• Kathleen Veronica Hansley, Dodge Avenue, Rockaway Beach,
NY
• Mary Elizabeth Swenson, 209 Amity Street, Flushing LI –
Flushing HS; 2/13/88 – 27 Jagger Ave, Flushing NY,
September 1905
1910
Gladys Alden Bonfils, 147
Union Avenue, Jamaica NY
– Morris HS and Jamaica
HS, 11/7/88; September
1906
Helen Louise
Crossman, 105
Clinton Avenue,
Jamaica – Jamaica
HS, 3/9/89;
September 1906
1910 (continued)
Florence Isabel Hopewell, 332
Broadway, Flushing, LI – Flushing
HS; 5/6/88; September ‘06
Stella Louise Hopewell, 332
Broadway, Flushing LI –
Flushing HS; 9/29/86;
September ‘06
1910 (continued)
Hazel Irene Wayt, 161 Franklin Street, Astoria, LI
– 54 Woosley Street, Astoria LI, Bryant HS LIC
5/15/87; February 1907
Mabel D. McCann – 69 Ashford Street
(Brooklyn), went to Jamaica HS, 11/17/88;
September 1906
1911
Juanita Brown, 94 Shelton Avenue, Jamaica NY, Jamaica HS, 12/31/88;
September 1907
Eleanor Burne, Douglastown NY – Flushing HS; 1/19/90; September 1907
Mary Ruth Maschmedt, 62 Orchard Street, Astoria LI- Bryant HS LIC,
1/20/89; January 1908
Louise Elizabeth Ockers, Oakdale, LI – 2/22/88; September 1907; Vassar
College and Putnam Hall,
Poughkeepsie NY
Gertrude Elizabeth Saul, 429 Ninth Avenue, Long Island City, NY; Bryant HS
LIC;
1/26/89; September 1907
Lillian H. Schoedler, 740 Purdy Street, Steinway LI; 9/6/91; 422 Ditmars
Ave; Steinway LI; Flushing HS; September 1907
1912
• Emma L. Rapelye, 75 Forest Parkway, Forest Park, New York; 5/15/89;
Jamaica HS; September 1908
• Mary A.P. Scully, 416 Amity Street, Flushing LI
• Edna E. Ziegler, 37 Maple St., Richmond
1913
• Margaret Isabel Carman, 283 Madison Ave, Flushing – not in graduating class – 4/12/90;
September 1910; Flushing HS; (Ringgold W. Carman – 79 Grove Street, Flushing)
• E.M. Curtice, 428 Fulton St., Jamaica – not in graduating class
• J. Ferguson, Jamaica – not in graduating class
• Marjorie Lorne Franklin, 44 Elmhurst Ave, Elmhurst ; 8/30/92; Newton HS, September
1909 (Cornellius E. Franklin)
• Frances Williard Gates, 222 Percy St., Flushing – not in graduating class; 5/14/93;
September 1910 Flushing HS (Eugene H Gates)
• Grace Louise Hubbard, 109 14th St., Flushing – not in graduating class – 3/18/93; Flushing
HS; (Frank W. Hubbard); September 1911
• E.T. Mayer, Corona Park, Corona – not in graduating class
• F.R. Piper, 34 Union St., Flushing – not in graduating class
• Mary Agnes Pyne Scully, 416 Amity, Flushing – not in graduating class – 5/1/91;
September 1908; Flushing HS
• Bessie Shaw, 547 2d Ave, Astoria – not in graduating class; 1/30/92; Bryant HS; 191
Newton Avenue Astoria (for both) February 1911; Frank R. Shaw
• M.C. Stebbins, 23 Stevens St., Astoria
• Bertha Holt Treadwell, 254 Amity St., Flushing, LI – not in graduating class – 4/7/85;
Flushing HS; James W. Treadwell; September 1910; 192 Broadway, NYC
• I.C. Van Dusen, Far Rockaway, LI – not in graduating class
• Edna Eberly Ziegler, 37 Maple St., Richmond Hill – not in graduating class; 18 Fairview
Avenue Brooklyn; Brooklyn Girls HS; 3/11/89 – September 1908 (Was Richmond Hill a
place in Brooklyn and Queens?)
1914
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1914 (continued)
• A.M. Brooks-Adikes, 211 Fulton St., Jamaica NY
• M.I. Carman, 283 Madison Ave, Flushing NY
• Marie Chabaud, 183 Young St., Long Island City - not in graduating class; 2/8/95;
September 1912; from Colchester Connecticut, Bryant HS; Mrs. E. Geoffrey- aunt;
183 Young Street, LIC NY
• Eunice Mallory Curtice, 428 Fulton St., Jamaica LI- Lawrence HS, 5/27/92; September
1910; Saul O. Curtis
• J. Ferguson, 69 Clinton Ave., Jamaica LI – 2/22/90/ Winchester Mass H, Jamaica HS,
Adelphia Academy and Smith College; 69 Clinton Avenue Jamaica/ 354 Fulton Street
Jamaica NY; September 1911; Frank L. Ferguson
• Dorothy Margaret Fitch, 44 Woolsey St., Astoria, LI – 4/5/91; September 1910;
Bryant HS (Neil O. Fitch, MD)
• Alice Darc Franklin, 44 Elmhurst Ave., Elmhurst - not in graduating class – 4/22/95;
September 1912; New HS; 39 Claremont Avenue; Cornelius E. Franklin
• Saida Elsa Brooks Gottlieb, 173 Amity St., Flushing - not in graduating class – 2/5/91;
Flushing HS; September 1909; Albert Gottlieb
1914 (continued)
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Lloryr Green, 146 Second Ave., Astoria - not in graduating class – 10/16/91; Bryant HS; February 1912;
Richard P. Green
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G.L. Hubbard, 109 14th St., Flushing - not in graduating class
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Eleanor Theresa Mayer, Corona Park, Corona - not in graduating class – 4/8/93; September 1910; Arthur
Mayer
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Anna Marie Pfeiffer, 265 Seventh Ave., Astoria LI - not in graduating class – 4/9/96; Bryant HS;
September 012 (Jacob Pfeiffer)
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FlorenceR. Piper, 34 Union St., Flushing - not in graduating class – 2/2/92; Flushing (NY) HS and Cornell;
enter September 1911; Carroll A. Piper
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Ethel R. Reges, 304 Grand Ave., Long Island City - not in graduating class – 4/23/93; September 1912;
Bryant HS, Henry Reges
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Helen. Van Alst Smith, 946 Boulevard, Astoria - not in graduating class – 11/12/94; Bryant HS; Mrs. G.F.
Hopkins; September 1912
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Mabel Clara Stebbins, 23 Stevens St., Astoria - not in graduating class – 7/17/90; Bryant HS; Clara
Stebbins; September 1909
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Elettra Taberini, 170 Academy St., Long Island City - not in graduating class – 3/18/95; Bryant HS; Francis
Taberini; enter September 1912
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I.C. Van Dusen, 43 State St., Far Rockaway - not in graduating class
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Elsie Felicitas Wezel, 58 Vanderveer Ave., Woodhaven - not in graduating class – 2/19/95; Jamaica HS;
Felix G. Wezel; September 12
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Edith Wezel; 10/8/96; Jamaica HS; Felix G. Wezel; September 1913
Conclusions, so far
• The vast majority of these students from Queens
went to public high school, particularly Jamaica HS,
Flushing HS, and Bryant HS
• There aren’t a particularly large number of Jewish
last names in this group of students
Some possible next steps
• Some of the transcripts I found had the student’s
father/guardian’s name
• I can look for the family in a directory and find the
father’s occupation
• What social class were these students from?
• I might want to spend more time looking at how the
students got to Barnard from Queens (subway, LIRR,
etc.)