Orr family.

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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

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creatorOf Orr family. Orr family papers, 1825-1970. Emory University. Special Collections and Archives
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associatedWith Atlanta Public Schools. corporateBody
associatedWith Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894. person
associatedWith Coulter, Stella S. person
associatedWith Dyer, Jessie. person
associatedWith Emory College. corporateBody
associatedWith Emory University. corporateBody
associatedWith Gordon, John Brown, 1832-1904. person
associatedWith Kappa Delta Epsilon. corporateBody
associatedWith Orr, Angus Elgin 1867-1938. person
associatedWith Orr, Cornelia Agnes, 1864-1936. person
associatedWith Orr, Edgar Harold, 1850-1914. person
associatedWith Orr, Edgar Harold, Jr., 1890-1968. person
associatedWith Orr, Eliza Caroline, 1825-1913. person
associatedWith Orr, Gustavus John, 1819-1847. person
associatedWith Orr, Mary Eliza, 1855-1900. person
associatedWith Rice, Herta. person
associatedWith Southern Masonic Female College (Covington, Ga.) corporateBody
associatedWith Stephenson, Margaret. person
Place Name Admin Code Country
Atlanta (Ga.)
Georgia
United States
Florida
Japan
Europe
Subject
Publishers and publishing
Education
African Americans
Women authors
Educators
Judges
Photographers
Reconstruction
Schools
Women
Women educators
Occupation
Authors
Educators
Photographers
Activity

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Active 1825

Active 1970

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