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Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845–1924), a Durham tobacco and textile industrialist whose Carr Mill stood in Carrboro, the town renamed for him in 1913 at his request, was an admitted Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan member. At the 1913 dedication of UNC's Confederate monument he told the crowd he had horse-whipped a Black woman "until her skirts hung in shreds" a hundred yards away.
Source: UNC-Chapel Hill, The Well: The men behind the names
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4 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Julian S. Carr.
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A public letter from Julian Shakespeare Carr of Durham, dated 8 July 1897 and addressed to C.H. Mebane and the executive committee of the campaign for local taxation, making the case for local taxes to pay for schools. Carr published it himself.
Papers of Julian Shakespeare Carr, 1892 to 1923, a Durham industrialist in tobacco, textiles and banking, a Methodist active in Sunday schools, and a figure in the finances of the university at Chapel Hill. They also cover Confederate veterans, race relations, white supremacy campaigns, and the Chapel Hill war memorial by John A. Wilson known as Silent Sam. Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 141.
Poster by Bob Goldstein from 2020 arguing that Carrboro should stop carrying the name of Julian Shakespeare Carr, and proposing Cottenboro after the musician Elizabeth Cotten. A single sheet measuring 30 by 31 centimeters. Topics include Carr, Cotten and the question of the town's name, placing the poster with the local debate over commemoration.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Carr, Julian Shakespeare.
Four leaves printed out in 2020, in which James V. Porto, Jr. gives his opinion on changing the name of Carrboro. The piece is signed at the end by Jim Porto. Subjects include the town name itself and Julian Shakespeare Carr, the man the town is named for. Part of UNC's North Carolina Collection.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Carr, Julian Shakespeare.
Special stand-alone issue of the Carrboro Citizen published in April 2011 for the town's hundredth anniversary, with Robert Dickson as publisher. Its stories range from profiles of residents going about their day to a piece on Julian Shakespeare Carr, the industrialist for whom Carrboro is named.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Carr, Julian Shakespeare.
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
Mena Webb's biography of Julian S. Carr (1845 to 1924), the Durham industrialist of Bull Durham tobacco, banker and philanthropist. UNC Press published it in 1987: 306 pages with illustrations, portraits, a bibliography and an index.
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Dated events connected with this person: sixteen of 45, the highlights and a sample of the rest spread across the years, in date order. See all 45 dated events in the chronology →
Hogg, who owned the land along the south bank of the Eno opposite the town, lived east of Hillsborough on the later Cameron property until 1793 or 1794. He then moved across the river to Poplar Hill, later the site of Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm.
People: Julian S. Carr
Subject: Occoneechee Farm
On the defendant Wright's motion, the Orange Superior Court moved to Alamance County the original Blackwell v. Wright suit over the Durham Smoking Tobacco trademark, after his counsel said the real plaintiffs W. T. Blackwell, Julian S. Carr and Day had too much local influence.
People: Julian S. Carr
William T. Blackwell and Julian S. Carr bought the interest of their third partner in the Durham smoking tobacco firm of W. T. Blackwell & Co., which went on under the same name.
Democrats from Orange and five neighboring counties celebrated the election of Cleveland and Scales at Hillsborough with a cannon salute, a torchlight procession led by the Durham Cornet Band from the depot to the court house square, burning rosin barrels and fireworks, and speeches with Paul C. Cameron presiding.
People: Paul C. Cameron · William R. Cox · Julian S. Carr
At the 1890 commencement banquet, alumni answered a call to endow a chair of history: Julian S. Carr pledged $10,000 and Judge James Grant offered to make up the balance. Battle then visited alumni in the larger towns to complete the fund.
People: Julian S. Carr · Robert W. Winston
On his new Occoneechee Farm, Carr had the old mineral spring cleaned out and extended, set a marble basin in it, laid a cement floor and covered it with a rustic spring house with seats for visitors. The Orange County Observer described the finished work in September 1891.
Subject: Occoneechee Farm
Carr put up a stone gate wall at the farm entrance, two curving walls of fieldstone gathered on the farm, one on each side of the driveway, set with round pillars capped by stacked round stones. The Durham Daily Globe reprinted the Orange County Observer's description in December 1891.
Subject: Occoneechee Farm
Julian S. Carr kept thirty to forty carpenters and painters at work on Occoneechee Farm, where they had lately finished a large hay barn and were building two new houses, a two-room log house and a rustic club house.
Subject: Occoneechee Farm
The North Carolina Dairymen's Association held a two-day meeting at Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm near Hillsborough, with the members as Carr's guests on the farm.
People: Julian S. Carr
Subject: Occoneechee Farm
Carr, born in Chapel Hill, gave $3,000 in 1899 to finish the dormitory named for him. In 1900 Winston praised it as a gift from a son of the village whose family name had once hung over a small store there.
Subject: Carr Building (Henry Owl Building)
A gift from Julian S. Carr let the Methodist church at Chapel Hill pay off the last of its debt.
Subject: University United Methodist Church
A Farmers' Institute drew several hundred men, women and children from every section of Orange County to Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm near Hillsboro, where Carr gave the address of welcome. A Women's Institute held with it heard Mrs. L. L. Brooks of Guilford County, Viola Boddie of the State Normal and Industrial College and R. W. Scott.
People: Julian S. Carr · Robert W. Scott
Subject: Occoneechee Farm
The faculty and trustees voted to give A.B. diplomas to surviving students who had left their classes to join the Confederate army, and the war classes of 1861 to 1868 were called at the 1911 commencement.
People: Edward K. Graham · Julian S. Carr · Walter Clark · Francis D. Winston · Edward Kidder Graham
On the second day of commencement Major H. A. London introduced Governor Craig; Mrs. London presented the monument to the trustees for the UDC, President Francis P. Venable accepted it for the university, and Julian S. Carr spoke for the students of 1861. Carr's speech, which praised the Confederate army and recounted his horsewhipping of a Black woman in the village in 1865, is the part now most remembered.
Part of Silent Sam · 20 events
People: Julian S. Carr · John A. Wilson · Locke Craig
When influenza spread from the university to Carrboro, a volunteer nursing committee worked night and day, and J. S. Carr gave the club rooms for a diet kitchen and paid its costs. For two weeks Mrs. R. B. Lawson and Mrs. Arthur Blackwood served at least seven gallons of soup a day, and orderlies checked homes each morning.
People: Julian S. Carr
On July 29, 2020 the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted 11 to 2 to remove four names from campus buildings, among them Josephus Daniels. The Daniels Building became UNC Student Stores, and the names of Charles Brantley Aycock, Julian Shakespeare Carr and Thomas Ruffin Sr. were removed at the same meeting.
People: Thomas Ruffin · Julian S. Carr · Charles B. Aycock
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Picture: Julian S. Carr, engraving, 1905. Public domain. Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Biographical History of North Carolina, vol. II (1905); via the Internet Archive
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