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Julian Shakespeare Carr made a fortune off his Durham tobacco enterprise, Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco. He also built a magnificent home there, Somerset Villa, for the then enormous sum of $125,000. Webb discusses Carr and his home.
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10125
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Rogers recounts the life of Julian Shakespeare Carr, a North Carolina industrialist and philanthropist. The Civil War interrupted his studies at the University of North Carolina, and he served as a private in the 3rd North Carolina Cavalry. He became one of the state's wealthiest persons, having interests in textiles, tobacco, banking, public utilities, and newspapers. He was ever loyal to his fellow-soldiers, and no ex-Confederate ever suffered for the necessities of life if Carr knew of his need.
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15151
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Julian S. Carr, born in Chapel Hill, is considered by some the first business man of his day in North Carolina. It may be called to mind when speaking of Carr his great business genius, his generosity toward learning institutions such as the University of North Carolina and Trinity, and his service to the Confederate Veterans and the cause of the orphan in North Carolina.
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33662
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If it hadn’t been for a revival meeting, for General Juilian S. Carr and for several other contributing factors, the destinies of China might have been completely changed. The author tells the story of a cabin boy’s conversion to Christianity in Wilmington, NC and How that may have later affected China’s history through his prominent children.
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35771
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The familiar conflict between North and South found a place in Southern Pines, which the author revealed was a Northern outpost established after the Civil War. The event spurring the conflict was the 1907 Blues and Grays Convention. This civil war’s outcome, peaceful, was fostered between Squire Charles Shaw and Captain Asaph Clarke, representing what the author called Johnny Reb and Billy Yank.
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