Orange County NcArchives Biographies.....Carr, Julian Shakespeare ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Rosie H. Guthrie n/a December 20, 2009, 7:25 pm Source: Who's Who in America Author: John W. Leonard Carr, Julian Shakespeare, retired mfr.; b. Chapel Hill, NC, Oct. 12, 1845; s. John Wesley and Eliza P.C.; grad. Univ. of NC; served in Barringer's brigade, Hampton's Corps, C.S.A., Army of Northern Va. Engaged in business; was pres. Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co.; now pres. Golden Belt Mfg. Co., 1st Nat. Bank, Durham; owns Durham Hosiery Mill; chmn. School Com., Durham; trustee Univ. of NC, Greensboro Female Coll. (pres. bd.); dir. Oxford Orphan Asylum; trustee Am. Univ, Washington, DC; maj-gen. comdg. NC Div. United Confederate Veterans; v.-p. Interstate Telephone and Telegraph Co., Durham & Charlotte RR Co.; dir. State Univ. RR. Defrayed living expenses of families unable to care for themselves of 2 cos. of Durham vols. in Spanish-Am. war. Delegate Ecumenical Meth. Conf., London, and Robert Raikes Sunday School Centenial; delegate at large 3 times to Nat. Dem. Convs.; received 13 votes for v.-p. of US Nat. Conv., 1900; canvassed NC, 1900 as candidate for US senator. Address: Durham, NC Additional Comments: Source: Who's Who in America A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States. Volume 3 1903-1905 Established, 1899, by Albert Nelson Marquis Edited by John W. Leonard Chicago A.N. Marquis & Company Publishers 1903 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/orange/bios/carr75bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb