Inventory of the James O. Carr Papers, 1743-1938
Collection Number 1787
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Carr, James O. (James Ozborn), 1869-1949.
- Title
- James O. Carr Papers, 1743-1938.
- Call Number
- 1787
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 1,550 items (4.0 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the James O. Carr Papers, #1787, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Account books.
- Bailey, Josiah William, 1873-1946.
- Carr family--Genealogy.
- Carr family.
- Carr, James O. (James Ozborn), 1869-1949.
- Connor, Henry G. (Henry Groves), 1852-1924.
- Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--North Carolina--History.
- Democratic Party (N.C.)--History--20th century.
- Dixon family.
- Duplin County (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
- Duplin County (N.C.)--History--19th century.
- Duplin County (N.C.)--Militia--Records and correspondence.
- Education--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Ehringhaus, John Christoph Blucher, 1882-1949.
- Family--Southern States--Social life and customs.
- Hall family.
- Hannah More Academy (Duplin County, N.C.)
- Huckleberries--North Carolina.
- Liquor laws--United States--History--20th century.
- McLean, Angus Wilton, 1870-1935.
- Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- North Carolina--Economic conditions.
- North Carolina--Genealogy.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Patronage, Political--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Roads--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Schools--North Carolina--Duplin County--History--19th century.
- Wilmington (N.C.)--History--19th century.
- Women--Southern States--Social life and customs.
Biographical Note
Carr, a lawyer of Wilmington, N.C., was a state legislator, served as United States District Attorney, 1916-1919 and 1933-1945, and was a leader in the North Carolina Democratic Party.
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Political correspondence, mainly 1916-1938, of James O. Carr, especially with Henry G. Connor, Angus W. McLean, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, and Josiah W. Bailey, concerning Democratic Party organization, political issues and programs, and North Carolina state and national elections and patronage. Among the topics discussed in detail are the administration of Federal law courts in eastern North Carolina, especially the problem of enforcing liquor laws; North Carolina state financial programs; the state highway program; public education; the huckleberry industry; and the New Deal's effect on North Carolina.
Earlier papers consist of family letters, mainly 1818-1885, written by members of the Dickson, Carr, and Hall families of Duplin County and Wilmington, N.C., and their relatives and friends in other southern states. Many of the correspondents were female. Volumes include seventeen general merchandise account books, 1876-1894, of Jacob W. Carr (born 1827) at Rose Hill, N.C.; military court martial records and other information pertaining to the Duplin County militia, 1784-1853; secretary's book of the Hannah More Academy in Duplin County, 1834-1844; and Carr family history.