Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Parr, William, 1868 

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   DEATH OF THE AUTHOR OF THE TERM "CARPET BAGGER." 
  
  Wm. Parr, who represented Nansemond county in the Underwood Convention, died 
in extreme poverty at his home near Suffolk last week, after a very short 
illness.  He is said to have been the first to apply the term "carpet-bagger" 
to the Northern adventurers, now so well known everywhere by that name, and 
distinguished himself while in the convention by presenting the Speaker, 
during one of its sessions, with a limber jack, representing a dancing negro. 
He was considered an honest man. - Suffolk Herald. 


William PARR, carpenter, 
Nansemond Co. representative (Radical) in the Underwood Convention*, 
reputed originator of the expression "carpet-bagger," Feb 1868, 
VA native, d. Dec 1874, at home, near Suffolk, age ca. 70, 
"Alexandria (VA) Gazette," Vol. 75, No. 305, Dec. 18, 1874, p. 2, col. 4 

Additional information: 

*Transcriptions of some of the newspaper articles about PARR, 
   with notes on the convention & expression appended, are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/newspapers/p600w1cb.txt 

He appears, age 66, in the 1870 Census in Chuckatuck Dist., Nansemond Co., 
   p. 22 - dwelling 162, family 174. 


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