Owen Cicero Farrar papers - ECU Libraries Catalog

Owen Cicero Farrar papers.

Author/creator	Farrar, Owen Cicero, 1835-1891 creator.
Format	Archival & Manuscript Material
Production Info	1873-1892.
Description	24.72 cubic ft. (1,250 items)
Supplemental Content	Finding aid
Subject(s)	Farrar, Owen Cicero, 1835-1891. Eure, Farrar, and Company. Farrar and Jones Company. Farrar, Gaskill, and Company. General stores--North Carolina --Tarboro. Cotton trade--North Carolina --Tarboro. Cotton trade--Virginia --Norfolk. Cotton trade--New York (State) --New York. General stores--Virginia --Norfolk. General stores--New York (State) --New York.

Scope and content	Records (1877-1891) of Owen Cicero Farrar, an Edgecombe County, N.C., cotton merchant, including correspondence, letterbooks, accounts, ledgers, and other records for Farrar, Gaskill and Co. of Tarboro, Eure, Farrar and Co. of Norfolk, Virginia, and Farrar and Jones Co. of New York, N.Y. Materials concerned with the general store activity include correspondence, letterbooks, financial records, orders, invoices, and ledgers for a wide variety of itemsfrom shoes and clothing to building materials, notions, cigars, and fertilizer. The collection also contains a large number of cashbooks, daybooks, and other ledgers from the late 1870s through the early 1890s as well as fertilizer account books (1885-1890) that are not identified as to company.
Access restriction	No access restrictions.
Cite as	Owen Cicero Farrar Papers (#584), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Terms of use	Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Acquisitions source	Joyner- Gift of Mrs. Mary M. Martin.
Biographical note	Owen Cicero Farrar (1835-1891) was the owner of cotton firms Farrar, Gaskill and Co. in Tarboro, N.C., the Eure, Farrar and Co. in Norfolk, Va., and Farrar and Jones of New York, N.Y.

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	Manuscript Collection	#584 - DOES NOT CIRCULATE	✔ Available	Request Material