Name :
Julian Shakespeare Carr
Occupation : retired manufacturer
Born : Chapel Hill, N.C., Oct. 12, 1845
Died : Apr. 29, 1924
Parents : Son of John Wesley and Eliza P. Carr
Education : graduated from University of North Carolina
Served in Barringer's brigade , Hampton's Corps, C.S.A., Army of Northern Virginia.
Engaged in business; president Bull Durham Tobacco Company; First National Bank of Durham, Ormond Mining Company; vice president North Carolina Joint Stock Bank; director Durham Hosiery Mills. President of Southern Memorial Association (Battle Abbey), Richmond, Virginia; president of the board Durham Public Library; trustee of the North Carolina Children's Home Society University of North Carolina, Methodist Orphanage, Women's College (Greensboro, N.C.), Training School for Colored People (Durham), College (colored people) (Augusta, Ga.), American University (Washington, D.C.), Old Ladies' Home (Durham), Confederate Home for Women (Fayetteville, N.C.), Methodist Chautauqua(Junaluska, N.C.), etc.; president of Confederate Soldiers' Home (Raleigh, N.C.); member Durham Board of Education.
Formerly major general commander North Carolina Division United Confederate Veterans, lt. general commanding Army Northern Virginia, also former commander in chief United Confederate Veterans, now honorable commander in chief for life.
Delegate to Ecumenical Methodist Conference, London and Robert Balkes S.S. Centennial. Volunteer aide to Herbert C. Hoover, federal food administrator, Washington, 1917-1919.
Home : Durham, N.C.
~ Who's Who in America, Vol. 13, 1924-1925, Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Printed by A. N Marquis & Company in Chicago, IL, Page 658 (Necrology Page 164 : Deaths Reported During Course of Printing Who's Who in America).
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