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The last time William “Doc” Pickard and I talked, about 18 months ago, he was starting work on a book about 100 Black entrepreneurs from 1850 to 1950 — people most of us never heard of who ...
Pickard was born on 12 April 1844 at Forest Hill in the Nottinghamshire town of Worksop. [1] He was the third son of a former officer in the Royal Artillery, Henry William Pickard (1794–1873), JP, of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, and 11 Carlton Crescent, Southampton, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Fullerton, of Thrybergh Park in Yorkshire.
William Leonard Pickard earned a scholarship to Princeton University but dropped out after one term, instead preferring to hang out at Greenwich Village jazz clubs in New York City. In 1971, he got a job as a research manager at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, a job he held until 1974.
Lucy McKim Garrison (October 30, 1842 – May 11, 1877) was an American song collector and co-editor of Slave Songs of the United States, together with William Francis Allen and Charles Pickard Ware. [1] [2]
The Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company was a shipyard that operated at Port Arthur, Ontario, now part of Thunder Bay, on Lake Superior from 1911 to 1993. [1] The shipyard was established in 1909 [2] and renamed in 1916 as the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company. [3] The yard closed in 1993.
Apr. 8—Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) announced in a press release on Monday that they have named Dr. Jeremy Pickard as their next Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Pickard will ...
A Washington, D.C. man has been arrested for threatening flight attendants on a United Airlines plane traveling from Houston to New Jersey. Kedus Yacob Damtew, 38, was charged with one count of ...
Port Arthur Independent School District is a public school district based in Port Arthur, Texas, United States. The district serves most of Port Arthur and a portion of Groves . In 2012, the school district was rated " academically acceptable " by the Texas Education Agency .