Record #:

23476

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

In 1915, Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Confederate veteran, lawyer, legislator, governor and minister to Brazil, died in Greenville. Over his years of public service, Jarvis did much to help the people of North Carolina. As governor in the early 1880s, Jarvis had compiled many achievements in public education and industrialization. For the city of Greenville, Thomas Jordan Jarvis is best remembered as the man most responsible for the establishment of the East Carolina Teachers Training School in 1907, later to become East Carolina University. At his death, the people of Greenville, and eastern North Carolina as a whole, honored him with lavish flower arrangements. In March, 2003, a plaque was placed at his grave in Cherry Hill Cemetery in Greenville.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Apr 16-29 2003, p5

Subject(s):

Governors