Frank Carr

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Frank Carr (born Francis Carr; February 4, 1784 – abt. 1854) was a physician, newspaper publisher, and agricultural reformer. As an educator, he was involved in the early operations of the University of Virginia and its progenitor, the Albemarle Academy. He was owner of Red Hills property, located above the forks of the Rivanna River in rural Albemarle County, Virginia.[1]

In 1816, the General Assembly appointed Dr. Carr to the Charlottesville Board of Trustees, the predecessor of the Charlottesville Town Council (1852-1870). Carr was the Secretary of the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors (1830-1851).

Dr. Carr provided medical services at Monticello on several occasions. During the War of 1812 Carr served as a surgeon in Colonel Samuel Carr's cavalry company. He served as a county magistrate in 1816 and as sheriff in 1839. Beginning in the late 1820s, Carr was the co-owner and editor of the Charlottesville Virginia Advocate, and he printed the first edition of TJR in 1829. He was also an early member of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle and held the office of assistant secretary in 1820. Carr ran schools on more than one occasion, including one attended by Hore Browse Trist and Nicholas P. Trist. In addition, he served as a trustee and secretary of the board for the Albemarle Academy and as proctor of the University of Virginia.[2]

A Debating Society was maintained in Charlottesville, which, besides kindling the talents and directing the studies of the young men of the town, quickened the patriotism of the community by occasionally celebrating the Fourth of July. On that day in 1830, they assembled in the Presbyterian Church, where Dr. Frank Carr read the Declaration of Independence, and Nathaniel Wolfe, a member of the bar, delivered an oration.[3]

In 1830 the Albemarle Temperance Society was formed with Dr. Frank Carr as President, Dr. H. Massie, Vice President, J. W. C. Watson, Secretary, and Edward S. Watson, Treasurer. [4]

The family of Captain William Terrell, of Louisa, resided in Albemarle. In 1825 his widow, Martha, purchased from Dr. Frank Carr Hors de Ville (English: out of town), the place near the Chesapeake and Ohio Depot (occupied by James D. Goodman in 1901). She died in 1830. [5]

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  1. Web. National Register of Historic Places, 1997, 1998, 2000
  2. Web. Frank Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 26 June 1813, founders.archives.gov, retrieved Feb. 9, 2023.
  3. Woods, E. (1901) Albemarle County in Virginia: Giving Some Account of what it was by Nature, of what it was Made by Man, and of Some of the Men who Made it By Edgar Woods Charlottesville, Va.: The Michie Company, printers. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Albemarle_County_in_Virginia/oX3hxtr5L24C?hl=en
  4. Woods, E. (1901) Albemarle County in Virginia: Giving Some Account of what it was by Nature, of what it was Made by Man, and of Some of the Men who Made it By Edgar Woods Charlottesville, Va.: The Michie Company, printers. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Albemarle_County_in_Virginia/oX3hxtr5L24C?hl=en
  5. Woods, E. (1901) Albemarle County in Virginia: Giving Some Account of what it was by Nature, of what it was Made by Man, and of Some of the Men who Made it By Edgar Woods Charlottesville, Va.: The Michie Company, printers. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Albemarle_County_in_Virginia/oX3hxtr5L24C?hl=en

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