Orr family.

Gustavus John Orr, educator, was born in Orville (Anderson County), South Carolina, in 1819, and died in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1887. He married Eliza Caroline Anderson (1825-1913) in 1847. The couple had nine children. Gustavus John Orr was a teacher, Georgia surveyor, a county tax collector, president of Southern Masonic Female College (Covington, 1867-1870), Georgia state school commissioner (1872-1887), and organizer of the state's public school system and of the Georgia Education Association; his son, Edgar H. Orr (1850-1914) was superintendent of the Brunswick and Glynn County, Georgia schools (1889-1892), and a Justice of the Peace (1892-1913); Edgar's sister, Dorothy Orr (Martha R. "Dolly" Orr, b. 1887), became supervising principal of the Atlanta Schools until her retirement in 1952, was organizer and first president of Kappa Delta Epsilon, an educational sorority, and author of A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN GEORGIA (1940), and GUSTAVUS JOHN ORR (1971); Edgar's son, Edgar H. Orr, Jr. (1890-1968), was an Atlanta photographer.

From the description of Orr family papers, 1825-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123429894