We regret to announce the death of Dr. L.J. Picot, which occurred at a hospital in Norfolk on Thursday, August 14th. The funeral and burial took place at Littleton on Friday.
Dr. Picot was a former superintendent of the State hospital in Raleigh, being the predecessor of Dr. Albert Anderson. He also served for two years as assistant superintendent of the institution, and was a director of the hospital from 1901 to 1913.
He was a native of Murfreesboro and was 71 years old. He was a son of Julian Henry and Antoinette Vann Picot. He graduated in medicine from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1873 and later took a post-graduate course there.
He was secretary of the State Medical Society from 1877 to 1885 and served a president in 1898. He was a Seaboard Air Line surgeon for years and was well known in Eastern North Carolina.
From the front page of the Roanoke News, “A Newspaper for the People,” published in Weldon, N.C., Monday, August 18, 1924
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