Carr, Julian Shakespeare

Julian Shakespeare Carr was born October 12, 1845 to John W. Carr and Eliza P. Carr in North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served in the Confederate Army. After the war, Carr became a partner of W. T. Blackwell and Co., a tobacco manufacturing firm in Durham. His donation of land to Trinity College (Randolph County, N.C.), along with the financial support of Washington Duke, allowed the struggling school the opportunity to move to Durham. Carr served on the Board of Trustees of the College, prior to and after its move to Durham. In 1924, the school would be renamed Duke University. Carr died on April 29, 1924 and is buried in Durham's Maplewood Cemetery.

From the guide to the Julian Shakespeare Carr Papers, 1880-1982, (University Archives, Duke University)

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