Skip to content
Orange County Public Library (opens the library’s website in a new tab)

Figure in a named event

Isaac William Rand

Isaac William Rand, a freshman from Smithfield, died at the University of North Carolina on September 13, 1912, when he fell from a barrel during a sophomore hazing and cut his jugular vein on a broken bottle. Four sophomores were dismissed, and three were convicted of manslaughter after their arrest by Orange County officials.

Source: UNC Libraries, North Carolina Miscellany: Isaac William Rand Hazing Incident

1 indexed work is connected with this person.

Search this work Research sources View indexed works ↓

Indexed works

Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.

Materials pertaining to the hazing death of Isaac William Rand, 1912

Cotten, Jerry W. · 1912

Letters, photocopied newspaper articles and photographs about the hazing death of Isaac William Rand, 1892 to 1912, a student at the University of North Carolina. Jerry W. Cotten compiled the materials in 1988 around the events of 1912. Topics include hazing at Chapel Hill and student life at the university. In the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Rand, Isaac William, 1892-1912.

UNC

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, earliest first. See these 1 dated event in the chronology →

  1. Three students are convicted in Hillsborough in Isaac William Rand's death At the Orange County Courthouse one of the four defendants was freed after the first testimony, and a jury of Orange County farmers found the other three guilty within a few hours. The judge gave the minimum four months with the option of hiring them out, and their families paid the fees and took them home the same day. People: John W. Graham, Isaac William RandSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 11

Places in this person’s story

Buildings, schools, churches and other sites named in the dated events on this page, the most often named first. The map shows them all.

Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Site locations from the N.C. State Historic Preservation Office survey, Open Orange and OpenStreetMap; town and community pins mark the middle of their mapped buildings.

All places and the county map →

Named with them in the chronology

People named in the same dated entries as Isaac William Rand, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.

Research sources

Resources picked for this person, each with a note on what it holds. For ready-made searches of other catalogs, see Search further.

Records of the time

Collections and databases

  • NC LIVE: prepared search for Isaac William Rand Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
  • Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries

Local help

Search further

Ready-made searches in other catalogs and collections. Results are not checked against this person.

Books about Isaac William Rand

More catalogs that show where copies are

Photographs, papers, and newspapers

Historical records and collections

Searched with the catalog heading Rand, Isaac William, 1892-1912, which helps separate this person from others with the same name. The historical records searches look for the name as written, so they can turn up other people with the same name. Each link opens that catalog’s own results in a new tab. The Friends have not reviewed what they return.

Found a book OCPL doesn’t own? You can often borrow it through interlibrary loan at OCPL.

More to discover

Keep Reading Local

The Friends connect people with new library materials, local writers and publishers, and resources documenting Orange County.

Browse New Arrivals → Meet Local Authors → Explore Local Publishers →
Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026