Orr family papers, 1825-1970.

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Orr family papers, 1825-1970.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123429894

The collection consists of papers of the Orr family including 538 letters written by or to various family members, between 1825 and 1970, as well as other miscellaneous material. Approximately ten percent of the correspondence is in photocopy form; these are marked as to source when known. The letters tell of family and business matters including comments on the Georgia-Florida Boundary, the Civil War and reconstruction in Georgia, educational facilities, World War I, European travel, and book publishing. Much of the remaining material concerns Dorothy Orr's biography of Gustavus J. Orr: Remembrances of other family members, news clippings, Gustavus Orr's addresses, reports, etc., and family pictures, in addition to the manuscript of the biography. There is also material relating to Dorothy Orr's work at Emory University and in Kappa Delta Epsilon educational sorority.

4.75 linear ft. (10 boxes, 4 OP, 3 BV)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6813506

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Orr, Angus Elgin 1867-1938.

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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;...

Coulter, Stella S.

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Orr, Edgar Harold, 1850-1914.

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Rice, Herta.

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Emory university

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The Baccalaureate service is an inter-religious ceremony for all graduating Emory University students receiving bachelor's degrees and consists of prayers, music, and an address by the Emory University President. The Commencement ceremony includes all Emory University graduates and consists of an address by the commencement speaker, the conferral of honorary degrees and awards, and the conferral of degrees en masse. From the description of Emory University Baccalaureate and Commencem...

Atlanta Public Schools

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Orr, Mary Eliza, 1855-1900.

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Dyer, Jessie.

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Gordon, John Brown, 1832-1904

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John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), Confederate General, Georgia Governor (1886-1890), and U.S. Senator (1873-1880, 1891-1897), born in Upson County, Georgia. From the description of Letters to Henry F. Emery, 1901-1903. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38478315 One of Georgia's most renowned political and military figures of the nineteenth century, John Brown Gordon was born on a plantation situated along the banks of the Flint River in Upson County on February 6, 1832. As a child...

Southern Masonic Female College (Covington, Ga.)

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Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894

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Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894), governor of Georgia and U.S. senator. From the description of Joseph E. Brown papers, 1858-1930 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 45894384 U.S. senator and governor of Georgia. From the description of Joseph E. Brown correspondence, 1862-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451938 Governor of Georgia and U.S. Senator. From the description of letter signed : Atlanta, unaddressed, 1877 Apr. 7. (Unknown). Worl...

Orr, Cornelia Agnes, 1864-1936.

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Kappa Delta Epsilon.

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Emory College

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Emory College was founded in 1836 by the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Early faculty members included Alexander Means, Gustavus John Orr, Osborne L. Smith, and George W. W. Stone. From the description of Emory College faculty records, 1847-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 761669346 Emory College was chartered in 1836 to the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The first librarian noted in Emory College records, in 1840, was George...

Orr, Eliza Caroline, 1825-1913.

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Stephenson, Margaret Budd, 1912-

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Orr, Gustavus John, 1819-1847.

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Orr, Edgar Harold, Jr., 1890-1968.

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