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Thomas Felix Hickerson taught at the University of North Carolina from 1905, first as an instructor in mathematics and then as professor of civil engineering, joining the mathematics department in 1936 and retiring in 1952. A Gimghoul for fifty-one years, he supervised the building of the order's castle and planted the boxwoods around Dromgoole Rock.
Source: NCpedia: Hickerson, Thomas Felix (Martha B. Caldwell, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1988)
Also found in catalogs as Thomas F. (Thomas Felix) Hickerson.
1882–1968 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
1 indexed work is connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Thomas Felix Hickerson.
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Topographic map of Chapel Hill and vicinity based on an 1896 U.S. Geological Survey, with additions by Thomas Felix Hickerson and W.F. Morrison in 1918, issued as an advance sheet. Ten-foot contours and spot heights show relief, along with roads, railroads, buildings, streams, the University, its athletic fields and the University Quarry. Carrboro falls within the sheet.
Organizational records of the Order of Gimghoul, a student society at Chapel Hill, spanning 1832 to 2006 with most material from 1940 to 1997. About 4,000 items in six linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40262. Subjects include the Gimghoul Corporation along with Lyman A. Cotten, Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis, Thomas F. Hickerson, George Watts Hill and Charles Milton Shaffer, and reach student activities and faculty social life.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Hickerson, Thomas F. (Thomas Felix), 1882-1968.
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Letters and diaries of the Lenoir, Gwyn and allied families of Happy Valley on the Yadkin River, where Thomas Felix Hickerson's parents lived, bearing on family life in the South and on the Civil War. Hickerson also wrote a history and genealogy of the valley. Published by the author in Chapel Hill in 1962, 245 pages with plates, a genealogical table and an index.
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