Papers (1871-1893, 1912) belonging to former North Carolina Governor Thomas J. Jarvis including limited correspondence, accounts, clippings, bank ledger, railroad passes, and a poem related to the Centennial celebration (1881) of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, VA,
Thomas J. Jarvis was born in 1836 and died in 1915. He was the 44th governors of the United States of North Carolina from 1879 to 1885 and later served as the United States Senator from 1894 to 1895. He helped establish the East Carolina Teachers Training School to help educate "white men and women," as the charter stated. The school is now known as East Carolina University and open to everyone.
This collection includes correspondence, accounts, and clippings relating Thomas J. Jarvis. The collection is in two archival boxes. The first box contains letters and a small ledger, and the second box contains railroad passes and a poem.
Gift of Mr. Frank M. Wooten, Jr.
Gift of Dr. John L. Wooten
Gift of the Frank M. Wooten Estate
Gift of Dr. William I. Wooten III and Dr. Erin Wooten
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Descriptions updated by Ashlyn Racine, August 2023.
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