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1. Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865

2. 1855
   Founding or opening · Chapel Hill Caldwell Lodge No. 180 is chartered at Chapel Hill

   Members of the defunct University Lodge took out a new charter as Caldwell Lodge No. 180, honoring the late university president Joseph Caldwell.

3. 1858 to 1859
   Chapel Hill Adolphus W. Mangum serves as pastor of the Chapel Hill Methodist church

   The Methodist minister Adolphus Williamson Mangum, born at Locust Grove on the Flat River in what was then Orange County, was pastor of the Methodist church in Chapel Hill in 1858 and 1859.

4. Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899

5. July 1873
   Protest or organizing · Chapel Hill State educational convention calls for reviving the university

   A convention called by the State Board of Education, with B. F. Moore presiding, resolved that the university should be revived as soon as practicable. It added that the revival was impossible except on a basis impartial between denominations and political parties, after Braxton Craven, Thomas H. Pritchard and A. W. Mangum argued over church representation.

6. 1875 to 1890
   Chapel Hill Adolphus W. Mangum joins the faculty of the reopened university

   When the university reopened in 1875 Mangum became professor of mental and moral science, history and English language and literature. He taught until he died in Chapel Hill in May 1890 and was buried in the old Chapel Hill Cemetery.

7. 1885
   Property or economic transaction · 315 East Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill Professor Adolphus Mangum buys the Collier house on East Rosemary Street

   Professor Adolphus W. Mangum bought the house at 315 East Rosemary Street in 1885 and owned it for five years.

8. May 10, 1890
   Life event · Chapel Hill Professor Adolphus W. Mangum dies

   Mangum, a Methodist minister who had taught mental and moral science, history and English since the reopening, died after a long illness. Josephus Daniels gave a memorial address in Gerrard Hall on May 31, 1891.

9. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

10. 1922
    Chapel Hill Mangum Dormitory opens, named for three members of the Mangum family

    The university opened Mangum Dormitory in 1922, naming it for Senator Willie Person Mangum, his nephew Willie Person Mangum Jr., and Professor Adolphus Williamson Mangum.

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