Lizzie Borden Society Forum

These 1898 Class portraits for B.M.C Durfee High School are listed in the Keeley Library site, as are Class portraits and yearbooks for subsequent years. I find them fascinating. I love old photos. I had previously found Victoria Lincoln's High School yearbook photograph listed, which I posted on another thread somewhere quite awhile back. I don't know if any of these photographs depict anyone connected to the case, but they are still interesting.

1898
http://www.sailsinc.org/Durfee/portraits1898.htm

1900
http://www.sailsinc.org/Durfee/portraits1900.htm

William Andrew Dolan, Jr. (b. 18 March 1895) is listed in the 1912 annual on page 44, Melissa. The blurb there sez:

"Bill" is a College Preparatory student but does not yet know whether he will "pursue" his studies further . He vouches the startling information that when he gets out into life he is going to "work" ; this is contrary to all early indications. He further adds that he desires to engage in the automobile business . There is little doubt but that he "auto" make good, provided he does not get "tired" too often.

As can readily be imagined his hobby is "autos" yet he has a fulsome respect for things equestrian . "A horse, a horse, my auto for a horse."
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I've not looked in awhile, but I dimly recall this same young feller listed as a survivor of Dr. Dolan in a news obit. The item also listed (strangely I thought) the occupations of his children. For the life of me I don't remember what young Dolan's profession was given as.



William A. Dolan, M.D., July 28, 1858-Oct. 1, 1922

William A. Dolan, Massachusetts PFC Air Service, World War I
March 18, 1895-Aug. 27, 1968

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ussnei/StPatFR.htm

We noticed a veteran's plaque on young Bill's grave last week, and a flag for memorial day at St. Patrick's.

What’s that they say about the more things change? Love the “car-crazed teen” angle.

I'll have to see what if anything I can ferret out concerning young Dolan's military records. That "PFC Air Service" sounds all at once fascinating and frightening.