University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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Vol. XII UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA pride to one of the stateliest buildings on its beautiful campus and has chris- tened it ' The Carr Building ' in honor of its donor. To General Julian S. Carr, in acknowledgment of his deep interest in the welfare of the youth of the land and as one of our most generous and distin- guished alumni, this Annual of the University of North Carolina for the year 1912 is respectfully and lovingly dedicated. W. H. S. BURGWIN.

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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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