Local figure
William Picard Jacocks, a 1904 graduate of the University of North Carolina, settled in Chapel Hill after retiring from the Rockefeller Foundation's public health work and lived at the Carolina Inn. The university gave him an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1954, and he gave most of his books and collections to it.
Source: NCpedia: Jacocks, William Picard
1877–1965 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
2 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by William Picard Jacocks.
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Around 120 photographs made by William Picard Jacocks (1877-1965) in the 1950s, one linear foot in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. The photographs cover Bertie, Brunswick, Dare, Hyde, Orange, and Perquimans counties, with Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina among the subjects.
Diaries and family history fill the papers of William Picard Jacocks (1877-1965), about 12,000 items in 12.5 linear feet dated 1910 to 1965, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3120. The papers document his public health work for the Rockefeller Foundation in India and Sri Lanka, and cover North Carolina genealogy, university alumni, and social life in Chapel Hill.
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