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Vol. XII UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA 3uUan Sl)aKc$peare (Law IN the address of presentation of the Carr Building to the trustees of the St ate University on Commencement Day, 1900, the speaker thus refers to its donor: Foremost among those who have learned a North Carolinian ' s duty to North Carolina and taught it to the State is the donor of this beautiful building. A native of this quiet village, a North Carolinian of the purest strain, a Tar Heel boy, a Chapel Hill boy, a University boy; who, when battles were to be fought, and marches made, and hunger borne, and privations endured, was a private in the ranks with ragged sleeves, fightmg m defence of his country. He has helped to build up this new North Carohna, puttmg his own shoulders to every forward movement that has taken place in his State in the past quarter of a century. At the reunion held at the Commencement of 19 1 1 , of the Class of 1 868 — the last class that was graduated under the presidency of Governor Swain — there occurs this reference in the address on that occasion : There is another who, though not registered as a member, yet recited with us on certain studies, and we claim him as a classmate. In view of his well-known public spirit, his liberality, his love for his Alma Mater and for the well-being of the inhabitants of Chapel Hill, where he was born and his youth was spent and where his parents lived and died, I would paraphrase the words of Vergil in describing his hero, when shipwrecked on the unknown shore, he is carried by his goddess-mother to the palace of Queen Dido, and sees on the walls of the beautiful temple pictures illustrative of the siege of Troy, and recognizing himself as a conspicuous figure in the group of distinguished actors in that great war, Eneas breaks forth in uncontrolled amazement and exultation : Quis iam locus. Achate Quae regio in ierris veslris Non plena donoris lam fama lotum vulgata per urbem. These words I would apply to Julian Shakespeare Carr.
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8 THE 1912 YACKETY YACK Vol. XII Mr. Carr was born October 12th, 1845, and in 1862 we find him a stu- dent ill the State University. But he could not rest content away from the battlefields of his country, and though too young for enlistment, he joined Company K, 41st North Carolina Regiment, known as the 3d North Carolina Cavalry, as a volunteer, and served in that famous command, with gallantry and fidelity, until the end. Returning home direct from Appo- mattox, he resumed his studies at the State University, but before his gradua- tion he left to go into business at Little Rock, Arkansas. Not content to make his permanent home elsewhere than in his native State, he returned to North Carolina in 1 870, and locating in Durham, he purchased a one-third interest in what afterwards became, under his efficient management, the world- famous Durham Smoking Tobacco Company. After years of successful operation, when the business had assumed mammoth proportions, Mr. Carr sold out his interest at approximately a million dollars, and has since devoted his time and talents to his large banking and other financial interests, chiefly cotton manufacturing, being the head of the largest manufactory of hosiery and yarns in the South. Ardent and loyal to the cause of the Southern Con- federacy, to which he gave his early youth, for many years he has been Gen- eral of the North Carolina Division of the United Confederate Veterans ' Association, to which position he has been annually elected without opposition. No needy Confederate soldier appeals to him in vain, and his speech in the Senate at the session of the General Assembly of 1910, of which he was a member, in advocacy of a monument to the women of the South, was surpris- ingly eloquent and appealing. Always a Democrat, he has been a delegate-at-large to many national conventions of his party, and in 1900 received the complimentary vote of two states for the office of Vice President, on the Democratic national ticket for that year. He was strongly endorsed for the office of Postmaster General in Presi- dent Cleveland ' s second administration. He has been a candidate before the people for the office of Governor and United States Senator, and in each case received a most flattering vote. General Carr ' s liberality to the benevolent and educational institutions of the State will ever be memorable. His gifts of ten and twenty thousand dollars to Trinity College; his successful efforts to save the Greensboro Female Col- lege; his gifts at different times to Wake Forest College, Davidson College, Elon College, St. Mary ' s School, and the Baptist University for Women, will not be forgotten; and his Alma Mater, the State University, points with
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