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Francis Joseph LeClair

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  1. Davie Hall is rebuilt inside for the botany department alone With the zoologists moved into their new building in the spring, carpenters and masons remade the inside of Davie Hall for the botany department: a fern laboratory from three offices on the top floor, an enlarged botany library and department office, a herbarium doubled in size, and new basement laboratories, one of them for F. J. LeClair of the Soil Conservation Service. People: William Chambers Coker, Francis Joseph LeClairSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 13, 1940, p. 1
  2. Planting begins on the old courthouse grounds with the county's Rural Progress prize money White and Black vocational agriculture students from Hillsboro and Central high schools dug the beds as shrub planting began on the old Orange County Courthouse lawn, paid for with $500 that farm leaders set aside from the County of the Year prizes. The plan was drawn by F. J. LeClair, the university's landscape architect. People: Francis Joseph LeClair, Elmer R. DowdySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 15, 1954, p. 1

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Of hollies and horticulture : a brief look at the life of Francis Joseph LeClair

Burk, William R. · 2002

William R. Burk's short biography of Francis Joseph LeClair, 1884 to 1973, written in 2002. The material concerns LeClair's gardening and grounds maintenance work in Chapel Hill and at the University of North Carolina. The title points to his work with hollies.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: LeClair, Francis Joseph, 1884-1973.

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