Thomas F. Hickerson papers, 1911-1967.

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Thomas F. Hickerson papers, 1911-1967.

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Professional and technical correspondence related to Hickerson's work as professor at the University of North Carolina; papers, photographs, and genealogical and other data connected with the writing of his two books about the history and families of the Happy Valley area in Wilkes and Caldwell counties, N.C.; and about fifty items concerning the slaying of William C. Falkner (great-grandfather of the novelist William Faulkner) at Ripley, Miss., in 1889.

About 10000 items (10.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Falkner, William C. (William Clark), 1825-1889

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Hickerson, Thomas F. (Thomas Felix), 1882-1968

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Thomas F. Hickerson (1882-1968) was a professor of civil engineering and applied mathematics at the University of North Carolina and an expert in highway design. Hickerson was educated at the University of North Carolina and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hickerson's book Route Location and Design was published by McGraw-Hill. From the guide to the Thomas F. Hickerson Papers, 1911-1967, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection....

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...