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Thomas J. Jarvis has an outstanding record of service to the state of North Carolina and to the nation as a whole. Captain during the American Civil War, Senator, Governor of North Carolina and Minister to Brazil are among the positions Jarvis held during his lifetime.
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21055
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An analysis of Thomas J. Jarvis' campaign for and service as North Carolina's governor starting in 1880. While governor, Jarvis showed concern for a number of issues later associated with Populism and agrarian reform rather than with Bourbon conservatism.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 48 Issue 3, July 1971,
p276-300, il, por, map, f
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23698
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Herbert Augustus White (1877-1929) was a prominent business and insurance man in Greenville. He was a local representative of the Standard Oil Company ,director of the Greenville Bank & Trust Company; vice-president of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce and first president of the Home Building & Loan Association.White was also president of the Pitt County Oil Company; first president of the Standard Realty Company; and was charter member and first chairman of the Greenville Country Club. It was said that H. A. White had the first electric lights, first indoor bathtub and first radio in Greenville. In 1903, White built a home on the corner of Fifth and Greene Streets for former Gov. T. J. Jarvis and wife to live rent free. On July 2, 1908, H. A. White and wife attended the now famous groundbreaking for the East Carolina Teachers Training School. In 1901, White built a story office building at 403 Evans Street, which would later become the office of the Home Building and Loan Association in 1906. His two-story office building is still located on Evans Street uptown and his great granddaughter owns an art shop next door.
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36039
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Being planned was ECU’s Centennial celebration, which would take place between 2007-2009. Endeavors commemorating the event included Henry Ferrell’s Promises Kept. An example of a historical highlight for ECU’s century long development was a quote from the 1908 groundbreaking event speech made by the regarded father of ECU, Thomas Jordan Jarvis.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Spring 2006,
p8
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36050
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The menagerie of movers and shakers in Greenville were profiled in this snapshot in words of how East Carolina University came to be. Accompanying the snapshot in words was a copy of the actual snapshot assembling those twenty-two individuals, taken on July 2, 1908.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 5 Issue 3, Spring 2007,
p20-21
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37336
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Small biographical notes on correspondents in the letters of Thomas Jordan Jarvis .
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37805
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Biography of Thomas Jordan Jarvis, a native of Currituck Co., NC, served as Governor and then as minister to Brazil, and then lived the rest of his life in Greenville, NC.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 10 Issue No. 1, ,
p13-14, por
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37806
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Three select letters of Thomas Jordan Jarvis, two from 1882 are about the Gatling Gun.
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