Mangum Family Papers, 1763-1993

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Mangum Family Papers, 1763-1993

1763-1993

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00483/

The collection includes correspondence and other papers relating to white members of the Mangum, Dickson, Abbott, Holliday, Overman, and other families in North Carolina and Virginia. Mangum family members include Willie Person Mangum (1792-1861) of Orange County, N.C., lawyer, Superior Court judge, Whig Party leader, U.S. representative and senator; A. W. Mangum (1834-1890), Methodist minister and teacher at the University of North Carolina; Ernest Preston Mangum (1865-1904), superintendent of schools for two North Carolina counties; Charles Staples Mangum (1870-1939), professor of anatomy at UNC; his wife Laura Rollins Payne Mangum; their son lawyer Charles Staples Mangum, Jr.; William Goodson Mangum (1924- ), artist; his wife Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum (1928- ), daughter of U.S. Army Colonel Benjamin Abbott Dickson and granddaughter of Brigadier General Tracy Campbell Dickson; and their son William Preston Mangum II (1958- ). The collection includes correspondence and other papers relating to the Mangum, Dickson, Abbott, Holliday, Overman, and other families. Willie Person Mangum items include a short 1841 note from Henry Clay and an 1844 letter in which Mangum discussed Whig politics. Papers 1851-1890 relate chiefly to A. W. Mangum, documenting his life as a student at Randolph-Macon College and work as a Methodist preacher in North Carolina; Confederate Army chaplain at Salisbury Prison, N.C.; and professor at the University of North Carolina, 1875-1890. Some 1870s-1880s items relate to Greensboro Female College. In 1894, there are courtship letters of Tracy Campbell Dickson. From the 1900s through the 1920s, there are family and University of North Carolina letters of Charles Staples Mangum and his wife and son in Chapel Hill, including 1917 letters from a soldier. By 1937, most letters relate to Ariana Mangum, including many from her father as a soldier in World War II through his retirement in the 1970s. Letters between William Goodson Mangum and Ariana begin in 1949, with some relating to his art, teaching career at Salem College, and European trips they took. In the early 1970s, there are letters from William Preston Mangum II, a student at Randolph-Macon Academy. Also included are genealogical material; speeches of Willie Person Mangum; reminiscences of Salisbury Prison and other writings; and photographs relating to family members.

15.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 5,000 items)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6627832

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Mangum family.

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Willie Person Mangum (1792-1861) of Orange County, N.C., lawyer, Superior Court judge, Whig Party leader, U.S. representative and senator. A.W. Mangum (1834-1890), Methodist minister and teacher at UNC. Ernest Preston Mangum (1865-1904), superintendent of schools for two N.C. counties. Charles Staples Mangum (1870-1939), professor of anatomy at UNC; wife Laura Rollins Payne Mangum; and son lawyer Charles Staples Mangum, Jr. William Goodson Mangum (1924- ), artist; his wife Ariana Holliday Dickso...

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

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Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House. He was the seventh House speaker and the ninth secretary of state. He received electoral votes for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 presidential elections. He also helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Grea...

Mangum, Ernest Preston, 1864-1904

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Ernest Preston Mangum (1865-1904) was the son of A. W. and Laura Mangum. Ernest was graduated from the University of North Carolina. He was superintendent of schools in Asheville, Clinton, Concord, and Wilson, N.C., and taught briefly at Western Carolina College. He married Lola Griffin (1867-1949), with whom he had two sons, Charles Preston Mangum (1893-1962) and Ernest Preston Mangum, Jr. (1903-1955)...

Mangum, A. W. (Adolphus Williamson), 1834-1890

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Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, University of North Carolina; Methodist minister. From the description of Papers, 1849-1871 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 24778375 ...

Mangum, Willie Person, 1792-1861

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Willie Person Mangum (May 10, 1792 – September 7, 1861) was a U.S. Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1831 and 1836 and between 1840 and 1853. He was one of the founders and leading members of the Whig party, and was a candidate for president in 1836 as part of the unsuccessful Whig strategy to defeat Martin Van Buren by running four candidates with local appeal in different regions of the country. He is, as of 2020, the only major-party presidential nominee to have been a North Ca...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Salem College (Winston-Salem, N.C.)

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Mangum, Charles S. (Charles Staples), 1870-1939

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Holliday family.

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Mangum, William Goodson

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William Goodson Mangum (1924-2013) was born in Kinston, N.C., the son of Charles Preston Mangum (1893-1962) and Margaret Blanche Edwards Mangum (1893-1975). He served in the Army Air Force in World War II and attended the University of North Carolina, where he earned a M.A. in 1959. He also studied at the Corcoran School of Art, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and the Art Students League of New York. His work -- paintings, drawings, and sculpture -- has been widely exhibited. He also taught at...

Whig Party (U.S.)

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Greensboro Female College (Greensboro, N.C.)

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Dickson, Benjamin Abbott, 1897-1976

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Benjamin Abbott Dickson (1897-1976) of Richmond, Va. was graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and achieved the rank of colonel in the United States Army. He saw active duty in both world wars, serving in World War I with the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia. Following World War I he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was the father of Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum (1928-2017)...

Overman family.

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Abbott family.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Mangum, Ariana, 1928-2017

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Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum (1928-2017) was a writer of historical fiction. She was born in Indiana, raised in Richmond, Va., lived for several years in Ireland, and finally settled in Chapel Hill, N.C. Daughter of Colonel Benjamin Abbott Dickson (1897-1976), wife of William Goodson Mangum (1924-2013) of Chapel Hill, N.C....

Mangum, William Preston, II

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William Preston Mangum, II (1958- ) is a freelance author based in Chapel Hill, N.C. He is a graduate of Randolph-Macon Academy, and has pursued several occupations, including working with horses in Montana, Wyoming, and Kentucky, as well as working in restaurants, hotels, and retail stores in various locations. He has also designed t-shirts and written numerous articles on Western lore and family history. He is the son of William Goodson Mangum (1924-2013) and Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum ...

Randolph-Macon Academy

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Dixon family.

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Mangum family.

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Numerous sources on Mangum family history exist, including biographies of several members of the Mangum family in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Series 2 of this collection contains much material on Mangum, Dickson, and related family history, including A Short History of the Mangum Family of North Carolina, written by Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum in 1956. This work contains a general genealogy and biographies of some family members (see subseries 2.1). Some of the in...