Making Barnard History:

Students from Queens1889-1914

Mollie GalchusProfessor 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

JAMAICAFLUSHINGWHITESTONEWOODSIDEASTORIA (includes one Steinway LI)LITTLE NECKELMHURSTLONG ISLAND CITYCORONARICHMOND HILLFLORAL PARKBAYSIDEROCKAWAY BEACHBROOKLYN (went to Jamaica HS)OAKDALEFOREST PARKFAR ROCKAWAYWOODHAVEN

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

• = 73 STUDENTS

Neighborhoods

High Schools

Wadleigh HS: 1 Woodside HS: 4Flushing HS: 14 Jamaica HS: 10Bryant HS: 13 Richmond Hill HS: 1Morris HS: 1 Vassar College and

Putnam Hall: 1Newton HS: 1 Brooklyn Girl HS: 1Lawrence HS: 1 New HS: 1

High Schools• 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

• 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

• 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 1907Mary Ruth Maschmedt, 62 Orchard Street, Astoria LI- Bryant HS LIC, 1/20/89; January 1908Louise 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 1907Lillian 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

1914 (continued)

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)• Lloryr Green, 146 Second Ave., Astoria - not in graduating class – 10/16/91; Bryant HS; February 1912;

Richard P. Green• G.L. Hubbard, 109 14th St., Flushing - not in graduating class• Eleanor Theresa Mayer, Corona Park, Corona - not in graduating class – 4/8/93; September 1910; Arthur

Mayer• Anna Marie Pfeiffer, 265 Seventh Ave., Astoria LI - not in graduating class – 4/9/96; Bryant HS; September

012 (Jacob Pfeiffer)• FlorenceR. Piper, 34 Union St., Flushing - not in graduating class – 2/2/92; Flushing (NY) HS and Cornell;

enter September 1911; Carroll A. Piper• Ethel R. Reges, 304 Grand Ave., Long Island City - not in graduating class – 4/23/93; September 1912;

Bryant HS, Henry Reges• Helen. Van Alst Smith, 946 Boulevard, Astoria - not in graduating class – 11/12/94; Bryant HS; Mrs. G.F.

Hopkins; September 1912• Mabel Clara Stebbins, 23 Stevens St., Astoria - not in graduating class – 7/17/90; Bryant HS; Clara

Stebbins; September 1909• Elettra Taberini, 170 Academy St., Long Island City - not in graduating class – 3/18/95; Bryant HS; Francis

Taberini; enter September 1912• I.C. Van Dusen, 43 State St., Far Rockaway - not in graduating class• Elsie Felicitas Wezel, 58 Vanderveer Ave., Woodhaven - not in graduating class – 2/19/95; Jamaica HS;

Felix G. Wezel; September 12• 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.)