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Collection Number: 00483

Collection Title: Mangum Family Papers, 1763-2016

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Size 72.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 21,000 items)
Abstract 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. Materials relating to Willie Person Mangum (1792-1861), a lawyer, Superior Court judge, Whig Party leader, U.S. representative and senator of Orange County, N.C., include family and political correspondence and printed political materials. Of note are a short 1841 letter from Henry Clay and an 1844 letter in which Mangum discussed Whig politics. Papers, 1851-1890, relate chiefly to A. W. Mangum (1834-1890) 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. Other 19th century materials include financial records and scrapbooks. Of note are an 1840s physician's ledger documenting medical care of enslaved people, an 1840s account book with labor contracts for overseers and a list of names of enslaved people, and loose bills of sale and hiring out receipts that document the trafficking of enslaved people. From the 1900s through the 1920s, there are family and University of North Carolina letters of Charles Staples Mangum (1870-1939), his wife Laura Rollins Payne Mangum, and their son lawyer Charles Staples Mangum Jr. in Chapel Hill, including 1917 letters from a soldier. By 1937, most letters relate to Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum (1928-2017), including many from her father, U.S. Army Colonel Benjamin Abbott Dickson, as a soldier in World War II through his retirement in the 1970s. Letters between William Goodson Mangum (1924-2013), an artist, 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 (1958- ), a student at Randolph-Macon Academy. Letters from the 1970s to the 2010s are chiefly of William Goodson Mangum, Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum, and William Preston Mangum II. Also included are genealogical materials and family histories; speeches of Willie Person Mangum; reminiscences of Salisbury Prison; school notebooks; sketchbooks and loose drawings of William Goodson Mangum; writings by Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum and William Preston Mangum II; clippings about family, Chapel Hill, and other topics of interest; printed materials for schools, arts programming, and travel; and photographs depicting family members, milestones, events, and travels.
Creator Mangum (Family : Mangum, Willie Person, 1792-1861)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Mangum Family Papers #483, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from various sources beginning around 1938. Donors include Juliet LeRoy Mangum, Mrs. Archibald Henderson, James N. B. Hill, Ariana Holliday Mangum, Charlotte Preston Mangum, Mrs. Ernest P. Mangum, Grace N. Mangum, Kevin E. Mangum, William P. Mangum II, Henry T. Shanks, Elizabeth B. Watson, Mrs. N. H. D. Wilson, the estate of Mangum and Josephine Weeks (Acc. 103650), and other gifts and purchases. See control file for details of individual accessions.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom with the assistance of Sarah White, October 1993; additions of 1994-2016 were processed by Wilson Library Staff, September 2022

Encoded by: Mara Dabrishus, March 2005

Revisions by: Wilson Library Staff, July and October 2019, November 2020, January 2021, September 2022, April 2023

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

Conscious Editing by: Nancy Kaiser, November 2022: updated abstract, subject headings, biographical note, scope and content note, contents list.

Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the encoding of this finding aid.

This collection was processed with support, in part, from the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

Items reviewed during collection reprocessing in 2022 and discarded include commercial photographic slides; duplicate, print and other manuscript materials deemed out of collection scope; and 3-D artifacts including lapel pins and other small personal effects.

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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 information below was supplied by William Preston Mangum II. Among family members documented in this collection are the following:

Willie Person Mangum (1792-1861) of Walnut Hall Plantation near Red Mountain, Orange (now Durham) County, N.C., was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1815 and was a lawyer; Superior Court judge, 1818-1823 and 1828; and United States representative and senator, 1823-1853, serving as president of the Senate, 1842-1845. He was a trustee of the University of North Carolina for 47 years. Willie was considered a national leader of the Whig Party, running for president in 1836. Mangum married Charity Alston Cain in 1819.

Priestley Hinton Mangum (d. 1850) was the brother of Senator Willie Mangum and was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons.

A. W. Mangum (1834-1890) was the son of Willie Person Mangum's cousin, Ellison Goodloe Mangum, of Locust Grove Plantation, Orange County. He attended Randolph-Macon College and became a Methodist minister. During the Civil War, A. W. served briefly as a Confederate chaplain at Salisbury and Goldsboro, N.C. He later preached in several North Carolina towns. In 1875, he became professor at the University of North Carolina, holding the chair of mental and moral philosophy and teaching history and English literature. He remained on the faculty until just before his death. His wife was Laura Jane Overman (1843-1914) of Salisbury.

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 (b. 1893) and Ernest Preston Mangum Jr. (1903-1955).

Charles Staples Mangum (1870-1939) was born in Greensboro, N.C., son of A. W. and Laura Mangum. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1891 and, three years later, completed his medical training at the Jefferson Medical College. He returned to Chapel Hill in 1896 as professor of physiology and later became professor of anatomy. He served as dean of the Medical School and was a founder of the School of Public Health. Charles married Laura Rollins Payne (1873-1956) in 1900. One of their children was Charles Staples Mangum Jr. (1902-1980), a lawyer.

William Goodson Mangum (1924-2013) was born in Kinston, N.C., the son of Charles Preston Mangum and Margaret Blanche Edwards Mangum (b. 1895). 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--was widely exhibited. He also taught at Western Carolina College in Cullowhee, N.C., and at Salem College, in Winston-Salem, N.C. He married Ariana Holliday Dickson in 1953.

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum (1928-2017) of Richmond, Va., was the daughter of Benjamin Abbott Dickson (1897-1976), who, as a colonel in the United States Army, saw active duty in both world wars, and Alice Holliday Dickson (b. 1900) of Indianapolis. Ariana's grandfather was Brigadier General Tracy Campbell Dickson. Ariana's parents divorced in the 1930s, and her mother later married Henry Coudon Lau Miller. Ariana's father also remarried; her stepmother was Eleanor Shaler Dickson and her stepbrothers Colin Campbell Dickson and William Abbott Dickson. Ariana traveled extensively, settling in Ireland for seven years. Children of Ariana and William were Margaret Ariana Holliday Mangum (1954- ), William Preston Mangum II (1958- ), Alice Holiday Mangum (1960- ), Laura Jane Overman Mangum (1963- ), and Grace Elizabeth Mangum (1966- ).

William Preston Mangum II was graduated from Randolph-Macon Academy in 1978 and pursued several occupations, including working with horses in Montana, Wyoming, and Kentucky, and in restaurants, hotels, and retail stores in various locations. He has also designed t-shirts and written numerous articles on Western lore, horses (especially of the Civil War era), the James-Younger gang, and family history.

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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.

Materials relating to Willie Person Mangum (1792-1861), a lawyer, Superior Court judge, Whig Party leader, U.S. representative and senator of Orange County, N.C., include family and political correspondence and printed political materials. Of note are a short 1841 letter from Henry Clay and an 1844 letter in which Mangum discussed Whig politics.

Papers, 1851-1890, relate chiefly to A. W. Mangum (1834-1890) 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.

Other 19th century materials include financial records and scrapbooks. Of note are an 1840s physician's ledger documenting medical care of enslaved people, an 1840s account book with labor contracts for overseers and a list of names of enslaved people, and loose bills of sale and hiring out receipts that document the trafficking of enslaved people.

From the 1900s through the 1920s there are family and University of North Carolina letters of Charles Staples Mangum (1870-1939) and his wife Laura Rollins Payne Mangum and their son lawyer Charles Staples Mangum Jr. in Chapel Hill, including 1917 letters from a soldier. By 1937, most letters relate to Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum (1928-2017), including many from her father, U.S. Army Colonel Benjamin Abbott Dickson, as a soldier in World War II through his retirement in the 1970s. Letters between William Goodson Mangum (1924-2013), an artist, 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 (1958-), a student at Randolph-Macon Academy. Letters from the 1970s to the 2010s are chiefly of William Goodson Mangum, Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum, and William Preston Mangum II.

Also included are genealogical materials and family histories; speeches of Willie Person Mangum; reminiscences of Salisbury Prison; school notebooks; sketchbooks and loose drawings of William Goodson Mangum; writings by Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum and William Preston Mangum II; clippings about family, Chapel Hill, and other topics of interest; printed materials for schools, arts programming, and travel; and photographs depicting family members, milestones, events, and travels, as documented by the families from the 1880s until the early 2010s.

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Contents list

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1. Correspondence and Related Materials, 1777-1990s.
1.1. 1777-1849.
1.2. Correspondence and Related Materials, 1851-1890.
1.3. Correspondence and Related Materials, 1891-1929.
1.4. Correspondence and Related Materials, 1830-1848.
1.5. Correspondence and Related Materials, 1949-1974.
1.6. Correspondence and Related Materials, 1975-1993.
1.7. Correspondence and Related Materials, Undated.
1A. Correspondence and Related Materials, 1763-1905 (Addition of 1982).
1A. Correspondence and Related Materials, 1763-2016 (Additions of 1994-2016).
2. Other Papers, 1825-1993.
2.1. Mangum Family General, 1853-1856 and undated.
2.1A. Mangum Family General, 1870s-1900s (Addition of 1982).
2.1A. Mangum Family General, 1800s-1890s, 1940s-2010s (Additions of 1994-2016).
2.1A. Mangum Family General, 1848-2021 (Addition of March 2023).
2.2. Individual Family Members, 1825-1993.
2.2.1. Willie Person Mangum, 1825-1993 and undated.
2.2.1A. Willie Person Mangum, circa 2000s (Additions of 1994-2016)
2.2.2. A. W. Mangum, 1825-1960 and undated.
2.2.3. Ernest Preston Mangum, 1880s.
2.2.4. Charles Staples Mangum, 1890s-1930s.
2.2.4A. Charles Staples Mangum, 1907-1955 (Additions of 1994-2016).
2.2.5. Charles Staples Mangum Jr., 1920s.
2.2.5A. Charles Staples Mangum Jr., 1902-1963 (Additions of 1994-2016).
2.2.6. William Goodson Mangum, 1940s-1990s.
2.2.6A. William Goodson Mangum, 1970s-2014 (Additions of 1994-2016).
2.2.7. William Preston Mangum II, 1970s-1990s.
2.2.7A. William Preston Mangum II, 1970s-1990s (Additions of 1994-2016).
2.2.8A. Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum, 1930s-2010s (Additions of 1994-2016).
3. Clippings, 1840s-1993.
3A. Clippings and Other Printed Materials, 1944-1990s (Additions of 1994-2016).
4. Pictures, 1840s-1993.
4A. Pictures, 1880s-2000s (Addition of 1994-2016).
4A. Pictures, 1930s-2000s (Addition of March 2023).

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About 1450 items.

Arrangement: chronological. Note that, especially after 1920, materials are roughly sorted by year.

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About 35 items.

Chiefly personal correspondence and related materials of members of the Mangum family. Also included are items of the related Dickson, Abbott, Holliday, Overman, and other families.

The earliest material, beginning in 1777, consists of deeds and indentures relating to land in Orange (now Durham) County, N.C. There is a copy of lawyer Willie Person Mangum's statement, 1823 or 1824, about his knowledge of debt and controversy between Herman Royster and Duncan Cameron, which had become part of a dispute between Cameron and William Montgomery, rival candidates for state senate. In 1824, there is a letter from William McMurray to the postmaster general about the location of post offices and estate and legal papers relating to Willie Person Mangum. In 1834, there is a letter from Charity Cain Mangum to her sister, Mary Cain Sutherland, in which she complained about the terms of her father's will. In 1837-1840, there are other legal papers relating to Sutherland and Cain family members.

From 1841 to 1846, there are letters from Willie Person Mangum in Washington, D.C., to his wife, daughters, and others about his activities and opinions. In 1841, there is a short note from Henry Clay about Mangum's not needing to attend a meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In 1844, there is a letter from Mangum to James Watson Webb of the Morning Courier and New York Enquirer giving Whig Party positions on the tariff, the treaty with Texas, and Henry Clay's chances for success. In 1845, there are photocopies of letters (originals at Yale University) from Willie Person Mangum to Francis O. Bacon about the United States Senate's pending investigation of fraud and the testimony to be given by Bacon.

In 1848, there is a letter from Willie Person Mangum to John Strother Pendleton of Virginia denying a rumor that Mangum was supporting Cass and Butler rather than the Whig presidential ticket and expressing zeal for the Taylor and Fillmore ticket. In 1849, there is a photographic copy of a letter from Abraham Lincoln to Willie Person Mangum about an appointment Lincoln wanted (location of original unknown).

Folder 1

1777-1827

Folder 2

1832-1849

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About 160 items.

Papers relating to A. W. Mangum, son of Willie Person Mangum's cousin, Ellison Goodloe Mangum, begin in 1851 with letters A. W. wrote to his father and others from Randolph-Macon College in Boydton, Va. These letters document Mangum's college life and also activities of the Mangum family members to whom he wrote. In 1852, there is a letter from A. W.'s brother Addison Mangum (b. 1822) of Orange County, N.C., son of E. G. Mangum, about his recent visit to Washington, D.C., and commenting on political issues. In 1853 and 1854, Nathan Hunt Daniel Wilson, a Methodist minister in Greensboro, N.C., is mentioned in A. W. Mangum's letters. Wilson's son, N. H. D. Wilson Jr., later married A. W. Mangum's daughter Mary Elizabeth. In 1854, the elder Wilson's account as treasurer of the North Carolina Methodist Conference Education Society appears. A. W. Mangum was graduated from Randolph-Macon in 1854, and in 1854 and 1855, there are letters to him from college friends.

By 1857, A. W. Mangum was preaching the Methodist circuit in western North Carolina, and letters, 1857-1860, from him to family members reflect his opinions on local politics and document his activities. In 1858, there are letters from Chapel Hill and other locations where he was preaching, and also letters to and from A. W. Mangum about his receiving and rejecting an offer to teach at the Spartanburg Female Seminary in South Carolina.

In 1861, Mangum's friend Garland Hanes, who was a lawyer in Virginia, wrote about his desire for immediate secession. Letters show that Mangum, who was preaching in Salisbury, N.C., became active ministering to Confederate soldiers, traveling to Virginia shortly after the fall of Fort Sumter to start his tenure as chaplain. In 1862, he was back in Salisbury, from which he wrote describing conditions in the prison there, where United States soldiers were held as prisoners of war. In 1863, Mangum was apparently no longer a chaplain, but was preaching in Goldsboro, from which he wrote to family members about conditions there. In 1864, he returned to Salisbury from which he documented the fear of Sherman's approach (although he does not mention Sherman's Raid). Also in 1864, there is a letter from Addison Mangum in Salisbury to his wife about his activities, and, in 1865, to her about preparations of the Salisbury-Charlotte area against the enemy's approach.

In 1866, Mangum began writing to friends and others gathering information for a sketch of life at Salisbury Prison. In 1868, there is a deed of trust from Greensboro College to Mangum's friend N. H. D. Wilson to secure the debts owned by the College. In 1875, there are materials relating to A. W. Mangum's distribution of the estate of E. G. Mangum. In that year, there are also letters from Kemp P. Battle relating to conditions at the University of North Carolina, where Mangum had become professor of moral philosophy, history, and English literature. In the late 1870s and 1880s, there are a few items relating to the continuing financial problems at Greensboro Female College. In the late 1880s, there are items relating to the Victoria Institute, also called the Philosophical Society of Great Britain), which A. W. Mangum was asked to join. Also in the late 1880s, there are letters to and from Overman and Wilson relatives. In 1890, there are letters of sympathy on the death of A. W. Mangum.

Folder 3

Correspondence and related materials,1851-1852

Folder 4

Correspondence and related materials,

Folder 5

Correspondence and related materials, 1855-1859 and 1850s undated

Folder 6

Correspondence and related materials, Undated before 1860

Folder 7

Correspondence and related materials, 1860-1865

Folder 8

Correspondence and related materials, 1866-1869

Folder 9

Correspondence and related materials, 1870s

Folder 10

Correspondence and related materials, 1880-1890

Folder 11

Undated before 1890

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about 125 items.

In 1894, there are many courtship letters to Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum's grandfather, Brigadier General Tracy Campbell Dickson, from his soon-to-be wife, Belle. Dickson, then a lieutenant, was stationed at the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Mass.

In 1904, there are letters of sympathy on the death of Ernest Preston Mangum. During the 1900s, there are also letters to and from Charles Staples Mangum and his wife, Laura Rollins Payne Mangum. Most of these letters document routine travel and family affairs. A few in the early 1910s are from Laura's brother Billy, who was serving in some capacity with the Isthmian Canal Commission. These letters are also about routine family affairs. There is also a letter in 1912 apparently from Benjamin Abbott Dickson, Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum's father, also with the Isthmian Canal Commission to his mother. In 1914, there are letters of sympathy on the death of Laura Jane Overman Mangum. In 1917, there are many letters that discuss military life in general from John Overman Dysart with the American Expeditionary Forces to Charles Staples Mangum Jr. in Chapel Hill.

In the 1910s and 1920s, there are scattered letters from Mangum relatives, including from A. W. Mangum Jr., who wrote from Bellingham, Wa., about an anti-Hindu riot. During these years, there are also scattered and routine letters from Josephus Daniels, Cornelia Phillips Spencer, June Spencer Love, and other friends of the family. Many letters relate to Charles Staples Mangum Jr.'s academic progress at the University of North Carolina. Others to his father deal with routine University affairs.

Folder 12

Correspondence and related materials, 1891-1894

Folder 13

Correspondence and related materials, 1895-1909

Folder 14

Correspondence and related materials, 1910-1915

Folder 15

Correspondence and related materials, 1917-1919

Folder 16

Correspondence and related materials, 1920-1925

Folder 17

Correspondence and related materials, 1926-1929 and 1920s undated

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About 185 items.

Letters of Charles Staples Mangum and Charles Staples Mangum Jr. taper off in the early 1930s, although there are still some from Charles Staples Mangum Jr. to his mother as late as 1944. By 1937, most of the letters relate to Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum (called Docie or Doc), then Ariana Holliday Dickson, who lived chiefly with her mother at Shooter's Hill near Richmond, Va. Many of these letters were written to Ariana at various schools by her father, Benjamin Abbott Dickson. Letters between Ariana and her father and other relatives continue through the 1940s. During World War II, many of these letters between Ariana and her father trace his army activities, and in August 1945, there is a letter enclosing a record of Benjamin Abbott Dickson's military career. In the early 1940s, there are also letters to Ariana from sisters Ann Lee Saunders and Jane Quinn Saunders, young women of her own age who lived at neighboring Tuckahoe Point Farm.

Folder 18

Correspondence and related materials, 1930-1938

Folder 19

Correspondence and related materials, 1939 and 1930s undated

Folder 20

Correspondence and related materials, 1940

Folder 21

Correspondence and related materials, 1941

Folder 22

Correspondence and related materials, 1942

Folder 23

Correspondence and related materials, 1943-1944

Folder 24

Correspondence and related materials, 1945

Folder 25

Correspondence and related materials, 1946-1948

Folder 26

Correspondence and related materials, Undated before 1949

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About 400 items.

Letters from William (Bill) Goodson Mangum to Ariana Holliday Dickson begin in 1949. While Ariana continued to receive letters from family, especially her father, and friend, by 1952, letters from Bill far exceed those from others by 1952. There are also some letters from Ariana to Bill. These letters chiefly document Bill and Ariana's activities, he beginning his career in painting and she completing her degree at Penn State, and their desire to be together. The volume of letters decreases greatly after their marriage in 1953.

Beginning in 1954, letters are chiefly to and from Bill and Ariana at various locations from family and friends. Many letters are from Benjamin Abbott Dickson at Cold Creek Farm in Paoli, Pa. Most letters discuss routine family and social affairs, but some relate to Bill's continuing his education at the University of North Carolina (M.A., 1959), to his increasing success in exhibiting his art work, and to his teaching career in the late 1950s at Western Carolina College in Cullowhee, N.C., and, beginning in the early 1960s, at Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.C. Other letters reflect Ariana's growing interest in family history. Bill and Ariana traveled frequently, both together and separately, during this period, and there are many postcards that document their journeys. Beginning around 1971, there are many letters from Benjamin Abbott Dickson, who had moved to Devon, Pa., that were meant to be distributed to various lists of recipients. These letters document Dickson's activities and thinking on a wide range of subjects. In 1973, there are many postcards from Ariana in Europe. Also in 1973, William Preston Mangum II was at Randolph-Macon Academy and began writing letters home about his life there.

Folder 27

Correspondence and related materials, 1949

Folder 28

Correspondence and related materials, 1950-1951

Folder 29-30

Folder 29

Folder 30

Correspondence and related materials, 1952

Folder 31-32

Folder 31

Folder 32

Correspondence and related materials, 1953

Folder 33

Correspondence and related materials, 1954

Folder 34

Correspondence and related materials, 1955

Folder 35

Correspondence and related materials, 1956

Folder 36

Correspondence and related materials, 1957

Folder 37

Correspondence and related materials, 1958

Folder 38

Correspondence and related materials, 1959

Folder 39

Correspondence and related materials, 1950s undated

Folder 40

Correspondence and related materials, 1960

Folder 41

Correspondence and related materials, 1961-1962

Folder 42

Correspondence and related materials, 1963-1964

Folder 43

Correspondence and related materials, 1965-1967

Folder 44

Correspondence and related materials, 1968

Folder 45

Correspondence and related materials, 1969

Folder 46

Correspondence and related materials, 1970

Folder 47

Correspondence and related materials, 1971

Folder 48

Correspondence and related materials, 1972

Folder 49-50

Folder 49

Folder 50

Correspondence and related materials, 1973

Folder 51

Correspondence and related materials, 1974

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About 450 items.

Family materials, many of which relate to William Preston Mangum II.

Folder 52-80

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Folder 53

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Folder 55

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Folder 57

Folder 58

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Folder 60

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Folder 62

Folder 63

Folder 64

Folder 65

Folder 66

Folder 67

Folder 68

Folder 69

Folder 70

Folder 71

Folder 72

Folder 73

Folder 74

Folder 75

Folder 76

Folder 77

Folder 78

Folder 79

Folder 80

Correspondence and related materials, 1975-1993

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About 100 items.

Family materials, some of which relate to William Preston Mangum II.

Folder 81-84

Folder 81

Folder 82

Folder 83

Folder 84

Correspondence and related materials, undated

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About 1000 items.

Acquisitions Information: Acc. 103650

Family correspondence, political correspondence, and printed political materials of Willie Person Mangum (1792-1861).

Box 25-26

Box 25

Box 26

Correspondence and other papers, 1763-1905.

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About 2000 items.

Acquisitions Information: Acc. 94058, 94126, 94162, 94180, 95003, 95134, 96197, 98647, 98840, 99078, 99501, 99744, 100353, 100404, 100781, 101408, 101812, 102180, 102254, 102575, 102698

Family correspondence, chiefly of William Goodson Mangum, William Preston Mangum II, and Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum.

Box 28

Correspondence, Pre 1800

Correspondence, 1800-1809

Correspondence, 1810-1819

Correspondence, 1820-1829

Correspondence, 1830-1839

Correspondence, 1840-1849

Correspondence, 1850-1859

Correspondence, 1860-1869

Correspondence, 1870-1879

Correspondence, 1880-1889

Correspondence, 1890-1899

Correspondence, 1900-1909

Correspondence, 1910-1945

Correspondence, 1948-1960

William Goodson Mangum correspondence, 1960s-2000s

Box 24

William Preston Mangum II correspondence, 1971-2016

Processing note: an earlier version of this finding aid included folders 165-167 in a series called "Family Papers." These folders have been integrated into this box.

Box 29

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum correspondence, 1946-1990s

Box 30

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum correspondence, 1980s-2000s

Box 31

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum correspondence, 1990s-2010s

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About 630 items.

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1. Mangum Family General, 1853-1856 and undated.

About 130 items.

Arrangement: by type.

Folder 85-91

Folder 85

Folder 86

Folder 87

Folder 88

Folder 89

Folder 90

Folder 91

Genealogy. Notes family trees, and other items about the history of the Mangum, Dickson, Abbott, and related families

Included is "A Short History of the Mangum Family of North Carolina," written by Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum in 1956 (folder 85). Ca. 100 items.

Folder 92-94

Folder 92

Folder 93

Folder 94

Writings

Miscellaneous short writings--poems, essays, etc.--by various family members, especially Benjamin Abbott Dickson and Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum. Ca. 70 items.

Folder 95

Volume 1: Account book, 1852-1853; scrapbook, 1870s and undated

Accounts are unidentified, but appear to be petty personal accounts of students, possibly at Greensboro Female College. The book was later used for clippings and doodles. Circa 100 pp.

Folder 96

Folder number not used

Oversize Volume SV-483/2

Volume 2: Scrapbook with greeting cards and clippings, 1880s-1890s

Compiled by Juliette Leroy Mangum, daughter of A. W. Mangum.

Circa 30 pp.

Formerly folder 96.

Folder 97

Volume 3: Scrapbook, 1888-1891

Newspaper clippings, chiefly articles by N. H. D. "Nath" Wilson Jr., who married Mary Elizabeth Mangum, a daughter of A. W. Mangum. Included are letters to the editor written by him while a student of theology at Vanderbilt University. Circa 15 pp.

Folder 98

Volume 4: Scrapbook with miscellaneous clippings and other items, 1880s-1900s

Compiled by Laura Rollins Payne Mangum.

Circa 30 pp.

Folder 99

Folder number not used

Oversize Volume SV-483/5

Volume 5: Scrapbook with miscellaneous clippings and other items, 1880-1910s

Compiled by Minnie Mangum Wilson.

Circa 50 pp.

Formerly folder 99.

Folder 100

Volume 6: Scrapbook with clippings, poems, and other items, 1900s-1930s

Compiled by Benjamin Abbott Dickson.

Circa 30 pp.

Folder 101

Folder number not used

Oversize Volume SV-483/7

Volume 7: Scrapbook, chiefly greeting cards, undated

Compiled by Juliette Leroy Mangum.

Circa 50 pp.

Formerly folder 101.

Folder 102-103

Folder 102

Folder 103

Miscellaneous. Certificates, programs, and other items relating to members of the Mangum, Dickson, and related families

About 50 items.

Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-483/1

Family history

Includes gravestone rubbings, newspapers, blueprints.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1A. Mangum Family General, 1870s-1900s (Addition of 1982).

10 items.

Acquisitions Information: Acc. 103650

Volumes include scrapbooks and accounting ledgers. Of note are the ledgers of Francis Mullen, a physician who provided medical care to whites and enslaved people in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, and of Priestley Hinton Mangum, whose volume includes labor contracts for overseers and a list of names of enslaved people, sometimes in association with an enslaver.

Box 27

Volume 13: Confederate nostalgia scrapbook, 1880s

Newspaper clippings.

Volume 14: Mary S. Mangum, Walnut Hall, scrapbook, 1881

Newspaper clippings.

Volume 15: Martha Mangum and Preston Leach scrapbook, undated

Newspaper clippings.

Volume 16: Ledger, 1806-1808

Volume 17: Ledger, Orange County, North Carolina, 1806-1808

Volume 18: Ledger, Priestley Hinton Mangum (1795-1850), 1820s-1840s

Includes labor contracts for overseers and a list of names of enslaved people from 1849.

Volume 19: Ledger, North Carolina Wakefield, 1796-1799

Volume 20: Ledger, Francis Mullen, physician, Pasquotank County, N.C., 1841-1847

Includes entries for visits and treatment of enslaved people, sometimes in association with the name of an enslaver.

Volume 21: Ledger, Flatty Creek, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, 1829-1848

Volume 22: Sallie Leach accounting notebook, 1871-1878

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1A. Mangum Family General, 1800s-1890s, 1940s-2010s (Additions of 1994-2016).

About 1800 items.

Acquisitions information: Acc. 94058, 94126, 94162, 94180, 95003, 95134, 96197, 98647, 98840, 99078, 99501, 99744, 100353, 100404, 100781, 101408, 101812, 102180, 102254, 102575, 102698

Materials include financial records, which are chiefly receipts for tuition, dry goods, crops, equipment repairs, taxes and other accounting information. Receipts and other items documenting the trafficking of enslaved people are noted below. Other materials are chiefly genealogical and family history materials for Mangum, Holliday, and Dickson families.

Box 64

Financial records, 1804-1899

Materials include many receipts for tuition, dry goods, crops, equipment repairs, taxes and other accounting information, including creditor notes. Materials relate to John W. Harris, W. J. Hogan, the estate of Ransom Sutherland, Sallie Mangum Leach, Preston Weeks, and others.

Records of enslavement include:

  • 20 December 1823: Bill to the estate of Ransom Sutherland for midwife services of Molly Cavender to an unnamed enslaved woman.
  • 13 February 1824: Receipt for payment by John W. Harris for medical care provided by John Y. Young to unnamed enslaved people
  • 10 June 1824: Legal document concerning Adkin, Elijah, Lucretia, and Henry, enslaved people who were bequeathed to John Ransom Williams and Benjamin Franklin Williams from the estate of Ransom Sutherland. John W. Harris was executor of the Sutherland estate and Samuel Williams served as guardian of his sons John Ransom Williams and Benjamin Franklin Williams who became enslavers.
  • 10 June 1824: Legal document concerning Adkin, Elijah, Lucretia, and Henry, enslaved people who were hired out by Samuel Williams in his role as guardian to his sons, John Ransom Williams and Benjamin Franklin Williams, to John W. Harris.
  • 15 July 1824: Receipt for medical visits by. J. Y. Young to unnamed enslaved people belonging to the estate of Ransom Sutherland.
  • 16 August 1824: Legal document concerning Abram, Sally, Toney, Norvill, Sessix (?), Leaman (?), Anna, John, Mary, and Old Mary, enslaved people who had been bequeathed to Nicholas M. Lewis, Caroline M. Lewis, James L. Lewis, and John L. Lewis, who were the heirs of their mother, who was the heir of her father Ransom Sutherland. Shadrack Floyd served as their guardian and lawyer.
  • 19 May 1825: Bill of sale for August, an enslaved person sold by Mary R. Read from the estate of Colonel R. Read. John W. Harris apparently facilitated the sale.
  • 28 June 1825: Record of sale for August, an enslaved person sold from the estate of Colonel R. Read. John W. Harris apparently facilitated the sale.
  • 30 December 1825: Receipt for hiring out of Moses and August, who were enslaved by Mary Read, to James W. Fort. John W. Harris apparently brokered the trafficking of Moses and August.
  • 31 December 1827: Receipt for hiring out of Frank, an enslaved person who was trafficked by J. J. Goodson to J. W. Harris.
  • 8 June 1828: Receipt for work performed by Frank, an enslaved person who was trafficked by John W. Harris to John J. Goodloe; and receipt for work performed by Phill, an enslaved person who was trafficked by Mary Goodloe to John W. Harris.
  • 5 December 1836: Receipt for medical care provided by A. H. Taylor to unnamed enslaved people and paid for by John W. Harris.
  • August 1837: Letter from Martin Read to John W. Harris, regarding payment for the previous year of hired work by Mons (?).
  • 26 May 1841: Receipt for sawing work done by Butcher, an enslaved person who was hired out by W. G. Montgomery to John W. Harris.
  • 24 July 1841: Receipt for hiring out of Isaac, an enslaved person who was trafficked by Julia Haywood and Phil H. Haywood to J. W. Harris.
  • 11 August 1841: Receipt for hiring out of Jerry, an enslaved person who was trafficked by Rufus Wiley to John W. Harris.
  • 7 June 1844: Letter from Joseph A. Worth in Fayetteville, N.C., to W. J. Hogan in Chapel Hill, N.C., mentioning that many of the free Black people who might be hired to drive a dray of salt and other supplies had been sent to the fortifications.
  • 1855: Receipt for payment for hire of an unnamed enslaved servant, as well as tuition, room rent, and incidental expenses at college, by John W. Harris.
  • 20 December 1858: Receipt for hiring out of Lewis, an enslaved carpenter who was trafficked by Mary Ruffin to John W. Harris.
  • 4 March 1861: Receipt for hiring out of Nancy and Susan, enslaved people who were trafficked by David Overby to John W. Harris.
  • 4 March 1861: Receipt for the hiring out of Nancy (?) and Simon, enslaved people who were trafficked by David Overby to John W. Harris.
  • 5 December 1861: Receipt for the hiring out of John and William, enslaved people who were trafficked by L. Y. Harder to John W. Harris.
  • 16 January 1862: receipt for the hiring out of James, an enslaved person who was trafficked by J. S. Purefoy to John W. Harris.

Other topics of interest include the salt trade during the Civil War. The Confederacy struggled with maintaining a steady supply of salt, and these records reflect that. Receipts, account books, and correspondence focus on the procurement of salt, requests for updates on salt shipments, complaints about the quality of salt, and collection letters from parties seeking payment for completed orders.

Box 31

Mangum family history: Writings about

Box 32

Mangum family history

Writings, invitations, ancestor charts, announcements, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials.

Audiovisual Box 1

"Mangum graves, Bahama, N.C.; Mangum Family Plantations: Graves, Mount Tabor Cemetery; Elizabeth Redd (portrait),"21 July 2002

1 videocassette

"Old Chapel Hill cemetery Mangum graves; Bahama, N.C., road markers; Mangum family plantations 'The Mountain,' 'Walnut Hall,' Locust Grove cemeteries."

Box 32

Alice Mangum

Laura Jane Overman Mangum

Overman genealogy for Mangum papers

Holliday family history

Benjamin Abbott Dickson

Box 33

Benjamin Abbott Dickson

Dickson family history

House renovation: Christian Theological Seminary

Other family history

Box 34

Printed material, 1880s-1890s

Children's art and writing

Scrapbook of children's art, 1970s

Di Phi, 1990s

"Hon. Burton Craige of Salisbury North Carolina" by Rev. J. Rumple, D.D.; drawing of unidentified man.

Miscellaneous

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-483/1

Diplomas and certificates, 1946-2002

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Acquisitions Information: Acc. 20230320.2.

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-00483/12

Ellison Goodloe Mangum cemetary map

Dial's Creek, Durham County, North Carolina; Mapped by Bill Mangum and Conrad Perry, 8 June 2021

Box 65

Certificate for First Lieutenant Charles Preston Mangum

"The American Legion certifies that First Lieutenant Charles Preston Mangum rendered patriotic service to the National Cause during The Great War, August 1918 - July 1919"

1848 letter of Willie Person Mangum

Letter written by Willie Mangum praising the work of Samuel W. Dewey

Diary of William Preston Mangum

2014 Scandinavian vacation

William Mangum artwork

Research material for "A Kingdom for the Horse"

Newspaper clippings of Alex Alexander of Woodburn Farm

Confederate States Military Prison at Salisbury, NC by Dr. A. W. Mangum

"The Lone Riders" posters

G-2 Journal: Algiers to the Elbe

Bill Mangum family papers

"Where the Butterflies Roam" by Ariana Mangum

Ariana H. Mangum's certificates and honor awards

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2. Individual Family Members, 1825-1993.

About 500 items.

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2.1. Willie Person Mangum, 1825-1993 and undated.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2.1A. Willie Person Mangum, circa 2000s (Additions of 1994-2016)

1 item.

Acquisitions information: Acc. 94058, 94126, 94162, 94180, 95003, 95134, 96197, 98647, 98840, 99078, 99501, 99744, 100353, 100404, 100781, 101408, 101812, 102180, 102254, 102575, 102698

Box 34

"A Memorial to Senator Willie Person Mangum Given by William Preston Mangum II," circa 2000s

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2.2. A. W. Mangum, 1825-1960 and undated.

About 250 items.
Folder 106

Volume 8: Diary, 1852-1860, about 200 pp

There are many daily entries and also some entries that summarize Mangum's activities during short periods of time. The diary documents his life as a student at Randolph-Macon College, 1852-1854, and his work as a Methodist minister in North Carolina, 1855-1860, during which time he often preached at Chapel Hill. Also included are quotations, poems, miscellaneous thoughts, and other writings. In the back of the book, Mangum recorded resolutions on prayer and Bible reading that he made on 24 October 1852. Throughout the diary, there is much philosophizing.

Folder 107

Volume 9: Commonplace book, 1853-1854, about 150 pp

Kept by Mangum while at Randolph-Macon College and at home, the book contains copies of his readings, poems, and disconnected historical notes, chiefly about British history.

Folder 108

Volume 10: Notebook, 1853-1857, about 400 pp

The book contains notes Mangum took at Randolph-Macon: William A. Smith's on slavery,1854; C. B. Stuart on geology and religion, 1854; and notes on sermons.

Folder 109

Volume 11: Notebook, undated, ca. 20 pp

The book contains thoughts on whether or not the North Carolina Methodist Conference should be divided.

Folder 110

History of Salisbury Prison

Reminiscences of Mangum's experiences during the Civil War at Salisbury prison during his brief stint as Confederate chaplain.

Folder 111

Sermons: Amos, Daniel, Deuteronomy, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Exodus, Ezekiel, Genesis, Hakakkuk, Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Job, Joshua, I and II Kings, Malachi, Numbers

Folder 112

Sermons: Psalms, Proverbs, I Samuel, Zechariah

Folder 113

Sermons: Acts, Colossians, I Corinthians, II Corinthians

Folder 114

Sermons: Ephesians, Galatians, Hebrews, James, John

Folder 115

Sermons: I John, Luke, Mark

Folder 116

Sermons: Matthew, I and II Peter, Philippians, Revelation

Folder 117

Sermons: Romans, I Thessalonians, I and II Timothy, Titus

Folder 118

Miscellaneous

Folder 119

Notes and lists of sermons delivered

Folder 120-122

Folder 120

Folder 121

Folder 122

Miscellaneous short writings. Ca. 50 items

Included are compositions written by Mangum while a student; biographical sketches, one of Willie Person Mangum and another of George Horah of Salisbury; poetry; and speeches, chiefly on religious themes.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2.3. Ernest Preston Mangum, 1880s.

About 20 items.
Folder 123-124

Folder 123

Folder 124

Lectures on literature and other topics.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2.4. Charles Staples Mangum, 1890s-1930s.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2.4A. Charles Staples Mangum, 1907-1955 (Additions of 1994-2016).

6 items.

Acquisitions information: Acc. 94058, 94126, 94162, 94180, 95003, 95134, 96197, 98647, 98840, 99078, 99501, 99744, 100353, 100404, 100781, 101408, 101812, 102180, 102254, 102575, 102698

Printed materials by Charles Staples Mangum about medical education and copy of U.S. War Department certificate of identification.

Box 34

Charles Staples Mangum materials, 1907-1955

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2.5. Charles Staples Mangum Jr., 1920s.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2.5A. Charles Staples Mangum Jr., 1902-1963 (Additions of 1994-2016).

4 items.

Acquisitions information: Acc. 94058, 94126, 94162, 94180, 95003, 95134, 96197, 98647, 98840, 99078, 99501, 99744, 100353, 100404, 100781, 101408, 101812, 102180, 102254, 102575, 102698

Baby book, article about mechanics' liens by Charles Staples Mangum Jr., newspaper clipping about a postcard on a thirteen year journey from the Antarctic, and a letter relating to Mangum's service on the Constitutional Commission in 1932

Box 34

Charles Staples Mangum Jr.: Baby book, 1902

Charles Staples Mangum Jr. materials, 1926-1963

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2.6. William Goodson Mangum, 1940s-1990s.

About 100 items.
Folder 130-132

Folder 130

Folder 131

Folder 132

Art catalogs and show announcements

Folder 133-137

Folder 133

Folder 134

Folder 135

Folder 136

Folder 137

Representations, many printed, of art works by Mangum, and a few drawings by him

Folder 138

Miscellaneous. Resumes and other personal items

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2.6A. William Goodson Mangum, 1970s-2014 (Additions of 1994-2016).

About 100 items

Acquisition information: Acc. 94058, 94126, 94162, 94180, 95003, 95134, 96197, 98647, 98840, 99078, 99501, 99744, 100353, 100404, 100781, 101408, 101812, 102180, 102254, 102575, 102698

Loose drawings and sketchbooks, biographical materials, and other scattered material about William Goodson Mangum.

Box 34

Art

Loose drawings and sketchbooks.

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-483/2

Art publicity

Box 35

Biographical materials

Funeral guest book, 2013

Ireland

Trip to France, 1976

School materials

World War II

Chiefly ephemera, such as rations card and social event cards; also includes awards entitlement form.

Miscellaneous

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2.7A. William Preston Mangum II, 1970s-1990s (Additions of 1994-2016).

About 3000 items

Acquisition information: Acc. 94058, 94126, 94162, 94180, 95003, 95134, 96197, 98647, 98840, 99078, 99501, 99744, 100353, 100404, 100781, 101408, 101812, 102180, 102254, 102575, 102698

Chiefly research and writings about the James-Younger gang, horses, and family history topics.

Box 35

Scrapbook

David Smiley letters scrapbook

Biographical materials

Diary, 1969

Scotland, undated

Invitations

Research correspondence, 1983-1990

Box 36

Research correspondence, 1983-1990

Notebooks

Horse research scrapbook

Box 37

Writings

Research materials

Print materials related to horses

Payne research and writing

The Long Riders screenplay, 1979 by James Keach, William Bryden, Steven Smith

"Wiley Pryor Family of the Carolinas" by Melvin Johnson

Box 38

A Kingdom for the Horse drafts

James-Younger gang draft writings

Box 39

James-Younger gang draft writings

James-Younger gang research correspondence

Letters from Harmony House

Disaster at Woodburn drafts

Box 40

R. A. Alexander Woodburn farm cattle

Letters, The Filson Club, Museum of the Trotter

Woodburn Farm, Lexington

Frank Leslie's Illustrated

James-Younger gang research

Box 41

Woodburn catalogues

Woodburn research

Box 42

Horse research

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-483/3

Horse related print materials

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-483/4-11

OPF-483/4

OPF-483/5

OPF-483/6

OPF-483/7

OPF-483/8

OPF-483/9

OPF-483/10

OPF-483/11

Newspaper articles by William Preston Mangum II about the James-Younger gang, 1992-1996

Audiovisual Box 1

"Bill Mangum's Cassette, " 1992

1 Audiocassette

"Hall of Fame, Goshen, New York. Complete set of radio stories, plus unused alternate takes of Bill's commentary following the eight stories. Radio show o Woodburn Farm and Frank James."

"William Mangum"

5 8mm films

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2.8A. Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum, 1930s-2010s (Additions of 1994-2016).

About 3000 items.

Acquisition information: Acc. 94058, 94126, 94162, 94180, 95003, 95134, 96197, 98647, 98840, 99078, 99501, 99744, 100353, 100404, 100781, 101408, 101812, 102180, 102254, 102575, 102698

Chiefly writings and notebooks; also includes biographical materials, diaries, school materials, and other materials documenting Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum's interests in travel, Ireland, writing, and music.

Box 43

Biographical material

Audiovisual Box 1

"Conversations with Stella Pratt," 1989

3 Audiocassettes

Box 43

Newsclippings about Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum

Mediterranean voyage, 1969

Trip to Ireland, 1973

Diary, 1978

Diary, 1977-1980

Diary, 1986

Trip down the Danube, 1990

Diary, 1996-2013

Chapel Hill property

"Our Trip to Egypt"

School records

Charitable giving

Dogs

Audiovisual Box 1

"Letter from Docie," 1988

2 Audiocassettes

Box 43

Mangum Family Trust, 1981-2007

Box 44

Notebooks and legal pads

Box 45

Notebooks and legal pads

Box 46

Notebooks and legal pads

Box 47

Notebooks and legal pads

Box 48

Notebooks and legal pads

Box 49

Notebooks and legal pads

Box 50

Notebooks and legal pads

Box 51

Notebooks and legal pads

Box 52

Writings

Includes Pine Blossom and Spotted Deer, A Shenandoah Promise

Box 53

Writings

Includes diaries, reflections, Agnes stories.

Box 54

Writings

Includes Magic Teapot drafts.

Box 55

Writings

Box 56

Writings

Includes Cranwell and Ireland, Where the Butterflies Roam, Uncle Jim Shaylor and the Panama Conspiracy, A Shenandoah Promise, Carlos the Mouse Who Discovered America.

Box 57

Writings

Includes notecards, Where the Butterflies Roam, When the Goldenrod Sing in the Meadows, Minnie Pearl, Dicksons, The Open Door School

Righter Monthly Review

Publishing records

Box 58

Writings

Box 59

A Forgotten Landscape

Audiovisual Box 1

"A Forgotten Landscape"

21 Audiocassettes

Box 60

A Shenandoah Promise

Audiovisual Box 1

"Mother's Revelation/West Point"

2 Audiocassette

Box 61

Writings while in school

Writings by others

Jonathan Swift Annual Seminar, 1990

Cambridge

Lives and Times Institute, 1979

Box 62

Event programs

Irish sayings

Chimayo, Ireland photocopied photographs

European trip, 1991

India wildlife safari, 2001

Travelers Club guest book, 1969

Audiovisual Box 1

"Trip to Philadelphia"/"New Years Christmas"

1 Audiocassette

Box 62

Miscellaneous travel notes, itineraries

Oversize Volume SV-483/23

Scrapbook of clippings and musical performance programs, 1930s-1940s

Audiovisual Box 1

Untitled

1 Audiocassette

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About 1000 items.

Arrangement: unsorted.

Clippings, chiefly relating to activities of Mangum family members, including the art career of William Goodson Mangum, and to the interests of individual family members, notably William Preston Mangum II's study of outlaws and the American West.

Folder 145-164

Folder 145

Folder 146

Folder 147

Folder 148

Folder 149

Folder 150

Folder 151

Folder 152

Folder 153

Folder 154

Folder 155

Folder 156

Folder 157

Folder 158

Folder 159

Folder 160

Folder 161

Folder 162

Folder 163

Folder 164

Clippings, 1840s-1993

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About 200 items.

Acquisition information: Acc. 94058, 94126, 94162, 94180, 95003, 95134, 96197, 98647, 98840, 99078, 99501, 99744, 100353, 100404, 100781, 101408, 101812, 102180, 102254, 102575, 102698

Clippings and other printed materials; of note are funeral programs ("Homecoming services"); school and camp materials, such as the Ogontz Mosaic; and clippings about high profile news events in Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Box 62

Travel materials

Box 63

Homecoming services programs

Clippings of interest

Magazines

Photocopied articles

Ogontz Mosaic, 1944, 1946-1947, 1949-1950

Schools and camps

Chapel Hill/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill history clippings

Chapel Hill Historical Society Newsletter, 1988-1991

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About 1000 items.

Arrangement: Alphabetical

Photographic prints, cased images, and photograph albums depicting members of the Mangum family and extended family members. Also included are images depicting major milestones, events, and travels documented by the families from the 1880s until the early 2010s.

Image Folder PF-483/1

B. F. Abbott, undated

Image Folder PF-483/2

John G. Arvis, 1899

Image Folder PF-483/3

Frank Baker, undated

Image Folder PF-483/4

Barry family, circa 1906

Image Folder PF-483/5

Charles Baskerville, undated

Image Folder PF-483/6

Tamar Manning Battle, 1894

Image Folder PF-483/7

Harriet Berry, undated

Image Folder PF-483/8

Blaisdale family, undated

Image Folder PF-483/9

Blalock family, undated

Image Folder PF-483/10

Loulie Busbee, 1903

Image Folder PF-483/11

Nora Mangum Chappell, 1891

Image Folder PF-483/12

Mary Elizabeth Cook, undated

Image Folder PF-483/13

Cowper family, 1940s-1950s

Image Folder PF-483/14

Cornelia Deletrine, undated

Image Folder PF-483/15

Benjamin Abbott Dickson, 1910s-1970s

Photograph Album PA-483/4-6

PA-483/4

PA-483/5

PA-483/6

Benjamin Abbott Dickson

Three albums with photographic prints, 1910s-1930s, some for use in "Long Way Home," which Dickson wrote in 1920 about his trip from Manila to New York, and others showing Dickson, Alice Baker Holliday Dickson, and other on various excursions. (See also Subseries 4.1.)

Image Folder PF-483/16

Dickson family, 1920s-1980s

Image Folder PF-483/17

Peter Doub, undated

Image Folder PF-483/18

Alice O'Neal Dye, 1950s

Image Folder PF-483/19

Early family, undated

Image Folder PF-483/20a

Ellis family, undated

Image Folder PF-483/20b

Lola Griffin Mangum Goodson, undated

Image Folder PF-483/21

Harrison family, 1940s-1950s

Image Folder PF-483/22

Holliday family, 1900s-1940s

Image Folder PF-483/23

Mansfield Horner, 1920s

Image Folder PF-483/24

Iboude family, 1930

Image Folder PF-483/25

William Rand Kenan, 1895

Special Format Image SF-P-483/1

Addison Goodloe Mangum

Image Folder PF-483/26

Adolphus Mathew Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/27

A. W. Mangum, undated

Special Format Image SF-P-483/2-4

SF-P-483/2

SF-P-483/3

SF-P-483/4

A. W. Mangum

Image Folder PF-483/28

Alice Holliday Mangum, 1960s-1970s

Image Folder PF-483/29-30

PF-483/29

PF-483/30

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum, circa 1930s-1990s

Image Folder PF-483/31

Augusta Wilkerson Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/32

Bartlett Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/33

Baxter Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/34

Carrington Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/35

Charles Preston Mangum Jr., 1920s-1940s

Image Folder PF-483/36

Charles Preston Mangum Sr., 1890s-1930s

Photograph Album PA-483/1-3

PA-483/1

PA-483/2

PA-483/3

Charles Staples Mangum

Three albums with photographic prints, 1900s-1930s, relating to Charles Staples Mangum, Laura Rollins Mangum, and Charles Staples Mangum Jr. Most of the photographs are snapshots depicting family life in Chapel Hill.

Image Folder PF-483/37

Charles Staples Mangum Jr., 1900s-1950s

Image Folder PF-483/38-39

PF-483/38

PF-483/39

Charles Staples Mangum Sr., 1890s-1930s

Image Folder PF-483/40

Charlotte Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/41

Cleveland Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/42

Elizabeth Whitefield Wall Mangum, undated

Special Format Image SF-P-483/5

Elizabeth Harris Mangum

Special Format Image SF-P-483/6

Ellison Goodloe Mangum

Special Format Image SF-P-483/7

Ernest Preston Mangum Sr.

Image Folder PF-483/43

Ernest Preston Mangum Jr., 1900s-1950s

Image Folder PF-483/44

Ernest Preston Mangum Sr., 1890s

Image Folder PF-483/45

G. William Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/46

Grace Elizabeth Mangum, 1970s

Image Folder PF-483/47

Grace Noble Mangum, undated

Special Format Image SF-P-483/11

James Mangum

Image Folder PF-483/48

John Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/49

Juliette Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/50

Laura Jane Overman Mangum Jr., 1960s-1970s

Image Folder PF-483/51

Laura Jane Overman Mangum Sr., undated

Special Format Image SF-P-483/8-10

SF-P-483/8

SF-P-483/9

SF-P-483/10

Laura Jane Overman Mangum

Image Folder PF-483/52

Laura Payne Mangum, 1880s-1920s

Image Folder PF-483/53

Lucy Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/54

Margaret Ariana Holliday Mangum, 1950s-1980s

Image Folder PF-483/55

Margaret Blanche Edwards Mangum, 1920s-1950s

Image Folder PF-483/56

Nannie Mary Elizabeth Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/57

Presley Jackson Mangum, 1885

Special Format Image SF-P-483/12

Priestly Hinton Mangum

Image Folder PF-483/58

Robert Mangum, undated

Special Format Image SF-P-483/13

Samuel C. Mangum

Special Format Image SF-P-483/14

Sandy G. Mangum

Image Folder PF-483/59

Victor Bryant Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/60

William Goodson Mangum, 1930s-1970s

Image Folder PF-483/61-63

PF-483/61

PF-483/62

PF-483/63

William Preston Mangum II, 1960s-1990s

Photographic prints, 1960s, relating to Mangum as a child and other images assembled by Mangum under the title "William Preston Mangum's Personal History in Pictures, 1965-1993."

Image Box IB-483/37

William Preston Mangum II, 1960s-1970s

Album of photographic slides and an album of photographic prints relating to the time Mangum spent in the West in the late 1970s.

Image Folder PF-483/64

Willie Person Mangum, undated

Image Folder PF-483/65

Miller family, 1930s-1980s

Image Folder PF-483/66

Hallie Morrison, undated

Image Folder PF-483/67

Newman family, undated

Special Format Image SF-P-483/15

William Overman

Image Folder PF-483/68

Overman family, undated

Image Folder PF-483/69

Grace Mangum Parker, undated

Image Folder PF-483/70

Patterson family, 1870s-1930s

Image Folder PF-483/71

Payne family, 1870s-1920s

Image Folder PF-483/72

Lucia Perrigo, undated

Image Folder PF-483/73

W. E. Peyton, undated

Image Folder PF-483/74

Walter Powell Jr., 1910s

Image Folder PF-483/75

Pratt family, undated

Image Folder PF-483/76

Wade Hampton Presley, 1902

Image Folder PF-483/77

Pulsifer family, 1940s-1970s

Image Folder PF-483/78

Rose family, 1928

Image Folder PF-483/79

Dr. Roser, undated

Image Folder PF-483/80

Ann Lee Saunders, 1940s

Image Folder PF-483/81

Elizabeth Mangum Spence, undated

Image Folder PF-483/82

Hope Summerall, undated

Image Folder PF-483/83

Thompson family, 1970s-1890s

Image Folder PF-483/84

Elizabeth Mangum Veasey, undated

Special Format Image SF-P-483/16

Preston Venable

Special Format Image SF-P-483/17

Amanda Mangum Webb

Image Folder PF-483/85

Wheeler family, 1940s-1970s

Image Folder PF-483/86

Wilson family, undated

Image Folder PF-483/87

George Worth, undated

Special Format Image SF-P-483/18

Unidentified persons

Image Folder PF-483/88-89

PF-483/88

PF-483/89

Miscellaneous friends and relatives, 1890s-1990s

Image Folder PF-483/90-92

PF-483/90

PF-483/91

PF-483/92

Unidentified persons, undated

Image Folder PF-483/93

Mangum family grave sites, 1970s-1990s

Image Folder PF-483/94

Historical markers and monuments, 1970s-1990s

Image Folder PF-483/95-96

PF-483/95

PF-483/96

Homes, chiefly of Mangum family members, 1880s-1990s.

Image Folder PF-483/97

Horses, 1940s-1990s

Image Folder PF-483/98-99

PF-483/98

PF-483/99

Chapel Hill, N.C., including University of North Carolina and Chapel of the Cross, 1890s-1990s

Extra Oversize Image Folder X-OP-PF-483/1

Oversize photographs and drawings

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About 7000 items.

Acquisitions Information: Acc. 94058, 94126, 94162, 94180, 95003, 95134, 96197, 98647, 98840, 99078, 99501, 99744, 100353, 100404, 100781, 101408, 101812, 102180, 102254, 102575, 102698

Arrangement: Alphabetical

Photographic prints, slides, photograph albums, and some negatives depicting members of the Mangum family and extended family members. Topics include major milestones, events, and travels as documented by the families from the 1880s until the early 2010s.

Image Box IB-483/7

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum travel photographs, circa 1970s-1980s

Image Box IB-483/8

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum travel photographs, circa 1980s

Image Box IB-483/9

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum travel photographs, circa 1980s-1990s

Image Box IB-483/10

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum travel photographs, circa 1980s-1990s

Image Box IB-483/11

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum travel photographs, circa 1990s

Image Box IB-483/12

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum travel photographs, circa 1990s

Image Box IB-483/13

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum travel photographs, circa 2001

Image Box IB-483/14

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum travel photographs, circa 2000s

Image Box IB-483/15

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum travel photographs, circa 2000s

Image Box IB-483/16

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum, photographs by Ariana, circa 1990s-2000s

Subjects include travel, family events, Hurricane Floyd recovery 1999.

Image Box IB-483/17

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum family scrapbooks and photograph albums, circa 1960s-2000s

Image Box IB-483/18

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum childhood scrapbook, circa 1930s-1950s

Image Box IB-483/19

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum photograph albums, circa 1930s-1950s

Subjects include wedding, travel.

Image Box IB-483/20

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum photograph albums, circa 1930s-1950s

Subjects include family, travel.

Image Box IB-483/21

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum photograph albums, circa 1950s-1960s

Subjects include wedding, travel.

Image Box IB-483/22

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum photograph albums, circa 1950s-1960s

Subjects include family, travel.

Image Box IB-483/23

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum photograph albums, circa 1960s-1970s

Subjects include family, travel.

Image Box IB-483/24

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum photograph albums, circa 1960s-1970s

Subjects include family, travel.

Image Box IB-483/25

William Goodson Mangum photographs, circa 1930s-2000s

Subjects include family, travel.

Image Box IB-483/26

William Goodson Mangum photographs, circa 1990s-2000s

Subjects include travel, artwork.

Image Box IB-483/27

William Goodson Mangum oversize photographs, circa 1950s-2000s

Subjects include artwork.

Image Box IB-483/28

William Goodson Mangum family slides, circa 1950s-2000s

Subjects include family, artwork.

Image Box IB-483/29

William Goodson Mangum family slides, circa 1950s-2000s

Subjects include travel, research.

Image Box IB-483/30

William Goodson Mangum framed article about artwork, circa 1970

Image Box IB-483/31

William Preston Mangum II photographs, circa 1960s-2000s

Subjects include family, travel.

Image Box IB-483/32

William Preston Mangum II photograph albums, circa 1990s-2000s

Subjects include family, travel.

Image Box IB-483/33

William Preston Mangum II photograph albums, circa 1990s-2000s

Subjects include family, travel.

Image Box IB-483/34

William Preston Mangum II photographs for genealogy and research projects, circa 1990s-2000s

Image Box IB-483/35

William Preston Mangum II photographs for genealogy and research projects, circa 1990s-2000s

Image Box IB-483/36

William Preston Mangum II photographs for genealogy and research projects, circa 1990s-2000s

Image Box IB-483/37

William Preston Mangum II photographs for genealogy and research projects, circa 1970s

Subjects include research projects.

Image Box IB-483/38

William Preston Mangum II photographs for genealogy and research projects, circa 1970s-1990s

Subjects include research projects.

Image Box IB-483/39

Mangum family and travel photographs, circa 1880s-2000s

Image Box IB-483/40

Mangum family and travel photographs, circa 1880s-2000s

Image Box IB-483/41

Mangum family and travel photographs, circa 1880s-2000s

Image Box IB-483/42

Mangum family and travel photographs, circa 1880s-2000s

Image Box IB-483/43

Mangum family and travel photographs, circa 1880s-2000s

Image Box IB-483/44

Mangum family and travel photographs, circa 1880s-2000s

Image Box IB-483/45

Mangum family photographs, circa 1880s-2000s

Includes photographic negatives.

Image Box IB-483/47

Mangum family photographs, circa 1880s-2000s

Includes oversized items.

Image Box IB-483/46

"Mangum Family Papers Negatives," circa 1880s-2000s

Descriptions in quotation marks were transcribed from original captions or notes found with materials.

Image Box IB-483/48-49

IB-483/48

IB-483/49

"Dickson Family Photographs and Negatives," circa 1930s-1960s

Descriptions in quotation marks were transcribed from original captions or notes found with materials.

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Acquisitions Information: Acc. 20230320.2.

Image Box IB-00483/51

Photograph Album PA-00483/7

Alice Holliday Mangum Perry's wedding photographs (1 of 2)

Image Box IB-00483/51

Photograph Album PA-00483/8

Alice Holliday Mangum Perry's wedding photographs (2 of 2)

Image Box IB-00483/51

Photograph Album PA-00483/9

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum photographs

"Perry O'Neal's Cottage at Culver, Indiana on Lake Maxinkuckee, Ariana H. Mangum and Perry O'Neal were cousins."

Image Box IB-00483/51

Photograph Album PA-00483/10

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum photographs

Friends and Family; The 5 Mangum children; Chapel Hill and Winston-Salem, 1958, early 1970s

Image Box IB-00483/51

Photograph Album PA-00483/11

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum photographs

Ariana H. Mangum's house in Chapel Hill

Image Box IB-00483/51

Photograph Album PA-00483/12

Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum photographs

Farm animals; Bill Carr's cabin in Hillsville, Va.

Image Box IB-00483/51

Images from "The Long Riders" screenplay

posters pulled and placed with papers

Mangum and Holliday Family photographs

Holliday Family photographs, 1938 - 1978; Mangum Family photographs, 1997, 2003

India

Image Box IB-00483/53

Ariana H. Mangum negatives

Perry O'Neal's lake cottage in Culver, Ind., 1989

William Goodson Mangum art

Ariana H. Mangum negatives

Cairo, Egypt

Ariana H. Mangum negatives

Various locations from vacations throughout the United States: North Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, Virginia, Massachusetts

Image Box IB-00483/52

Robert A. Alexander

Woodburn house

Lexington horse

Australian horse

Asteriod horse

Norfolk horse

Pilot Jr. horse

Edwin Forest horse, Advertisement Norman

Alexander's Abdallah horse

Diomed horse

Abraham Buford

Woodburn Mansion

Longfellow Horse

Warren Viley, Willa Viley - Stonewall Farm

Gaines' Denmark 61 horse

Daniel Swigert, Ezekiel Clay

Jerome Clark alias "Sue Monday"

William Clark Quantrill

Missouri Guerrillas

Henry C. Magruder

Edward H. Hobson

Versailles - Midway Road

Offut - Cole Tavern, Midway, Kentucky

Frank James

Black Hawk Mill

John Morrissey

Idlewild

Woodlawn Vase

Jay-Eye-See Maud S., Nancy Hanks

Alcazar

Map L.J. Rose's Ranch

Sultan Horse

Stamboul

Sale Catalogue

Grimstead

Americano

Emperor of Norfolk

Cruzados

Americus

Goldsmith Maid

Frank James, Col. Jack Chinn, William Jennings Bryan

Quantrill's Band

Lexington in Old Age

Harold

Alix

Robert J., Woodford Mambrino

Belmont

Almont

Swigert

Blackwood

Wedgewood

Esperanza, Melville Chief

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Oversize volumes (SV-483/2,5,7,12,23)

Pictures (PF-483/1-99; SF-P-483/1-18; PA-483/1-12; IB-483/1-53)

Audiocassettes, videocassette, 8mm film (Audiovisual box 1)

Oversize folders (OPF-00483/1-12

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