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Adolphus Williamson Mangum, a Methodist minister and former Confederate chaplain, served as a pastor in Chapel Hill and taught moral philosophy, history and English literature at the university from 1875 until his death in 1890. Mangum Dormitory, opened in 1922, is named partly for him.
Source: Carolina Story: Mangum Residence Hall
Also found in catalogs as A. W. (Adolphus Williamson) Mangum, A. W. Mangum.
1834–1890 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as A. W. Mangum → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Adolphus Williamson Mangum.
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School compositions by A. W. Mangum, Methodist minister and later professor of mental and moral philosophy at the University of North Carolina, written at South Lowell Academy in Durham County and at Randolph-Macon College in Boydton, Virginia, from 1849 on. The 98 items take up moral and political questions, women's education among them, and also concern Henry Clay and the Franklin Literary Society at Randolph-Macon.
Josephus Daniels's memorial address for Adolphus Williamson Mangum, delivered in the university chapel at Chapel Hill on Sunday, May 31, 1891 and printed by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. Mangum, who died in 1890, was a Methodist minister on the University of North Carolina faculty. The text was detached from the North Carolina University Magazine for that year.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Mangum, A. W. (Adolphus Williamson), 1834-1890.
Papers of Locke Craig, Asheville lawyer who served in the North Carolina legislature from 1898 to 1903 and as governor from 1913 to 1917. The 126 items, beginning in 1880, include personal letters, political and religious speeches, an address on Freemasonry, and a chemistry notebook he kept as a University of North Carolina student. Kemp P. Battle, Henry G. Connor and Woodrow Wilson are among the names that appear.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Mangum, A. W. -- 1834-1890.
Adolphus Williamson Mangum in an undated portrait, part of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection of townspeople.
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