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S. H. Hobbs Jr. taught rural social economics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1916 to 1968 and edited the University of North Carolina Newsletter from 1922 to 1956. He served on the Chapel Hill Planning Authority and in 1936 bought an Orange County farm for agricultural experiments.
Source: NCpedia: Hobbs, Samuel Huntington, Jr.
Also found in catalogs as S. H. Hobbs.
1895–1969 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by S. H. Hobbs Jr..
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S. H. Hobbs, Jr., 1895 to 1969, wrote this carbon typescript on preserving source materials for the social sciences, dated 1934. Topics include information resources for social science in Chapel Hill and across the southern states, and the teaching of social science in secondary schools. In the North Carolina Collection at UNC.
Samuel Huntington Hobbs Jr. (1895-1969) taught sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his papers cover 1916 to 1965 with later material from 1999. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3909. The papers concern his work in the Department of Sociology and to twentieth century economic and rural conditions in North Carolina.
A 1967 audiocassette about earlier Chapel Hill, concerning town history and social life. The people identified with the recording are Congressman Carl Thomas Durham, Samuel Huntington Hobbs and university chancellor Robert Burton House.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Hobbs, S. H., Jr. (Samuel Huntington), 1895-1969.
Departmental records of Rural Social Economics at the University of North Carolina, 1924 to 1942. Subjects include E. C. Branson and S. H. Hobbs, Jr., cover the teaching of sociology in the state and the university's curricula, and link the department to the later history of sociology at Chapel Hill. In the University Archives at UNC, collection 40088.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Hobbs, S. H., Jr. (Samuel Huntington), 1895-1969.
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Picture: S. H. Hobbs Jr., Yackety Yack, 1916. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1916 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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