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Charles Staples Mangum

Charles Staples Mangum, a son of University professor A. W. Mangum, returned to Chapel Hill in 1896 as the University's professor of physiology and later taught anatomy. He served as dean of the medical school and was a founder of the School of Public Health.

Source: UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Mangum Family Papers, 1763-2016

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1870–1939 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineCarolina athletics from the ban to the undefeated 1898 team, 1888–19021888–1902 · 13 events · Carolina athletics began with a fight over whether to play at all: organized football started at the university in 1888, and by 1890 the trustees had forbidden intercollegiate contests altogether. A student petition won repeal by January 1891, and that April the football and baseball associations united as the Athletic Association. The 1892 team lost only to Virginia and then beat Virginia in a rematch at Atlanta. In 1895 the association hired Princeton's Thomas G. Trenchard, whose team won seven games before losing to Virginia. After a disorderly fall term the faculty in 1896 barred students on probation from the teams and made players pledge not to drink or gamble on trips. The 1898 team was undefeated and untied. StorylineFounding the University's public health program, 1935–19401935–1940 · 5 events · At State Health Officer Carl Reynolds's urging, medical school dean Charles Mangum reached out to Milton J. Rosenau of Harvard. Under a December 13, 1935 agreement among the university, the State Board of Health and the Public Health Service, the medical school opened a Division of Public Health under Rosenau as the training center for an eight-state sanitary district. In the summer of 1936 Herman G. Baity joined the division as professor of sanitary engineering, and forty-six students enrolled that fall. The division became the School of Public Health in 1940, and that year Rosenau offered the headship of a new Department of Public Health Nursing to Ruth Hay. StorylineThe University’s medical building, 1937–19391937–1939 · 6 events · Between 1937 and 1939 the University built a new building for its school of medicine and Division of Public Health, with state money and a Public Works Administration grant. William de Berniere MacNider became dean of the medical school in 1937, and that summer a site was chosen near the junction of the Pittsboro and Raleigh roads and Washington announced a grant of $185,000. The school of medicine moved in at the start of the fall quarter of 1939, and the Division of Public Health admitted fourteen graduate students to its master of public health course. The building, formally opened that December, cost $428,000 and was named for MacNider.

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  1. The faculty decides to hire a gymnasium instructor and buy apparatus The faculty decided to employ a paid instructor in gymnastics, boxing and fencing and to spend money on new gymnasium apparatus. Charles S. Mangum, the student director of the gymnasium, was chosen and was to train at Springfield, Mass., over the summer, with a bath room for the gymnasium also planned. People: Charles Staples Mangum Place: Gymnasium, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hillian, June 2, 1891, p. 2
  2. Charles S. Mangum returns to Chapel Hill as professor of physiology Charles Staples Mangum, a son of university professor A. W. Mangum, came back to Chapel Hill in 1896 as the university's professor of physiology, two years after finishing medical training at Jefferson Medical College. He later became professor of anatomy. People: Adolphus Williamson Mangum Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Mangum Family Papers, 1763-2016
  3. Chapel Hill's Boy Scout troop is organized A 1929 history by assistant scoutmaster Henry N. Brown says Chapel Hill's Boy Scout troop was organized in February 1912 with sixteen members under C. Walter Johnson, a University student, and calls it one of the first in the state. Rival uptown and downtown troops formed soon after and broke up, and the original troop was revived within a year. People: Charles Staples Mangum Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: C. Walter Johnson, Henry N. BrownSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 15, 1929, p. 5
  4. Dr. C. S. Mangum teaches a daily first aid class at the 1917 UNC Summer School Dr. C. S. Mangum taught first aid every day through the six weeks of the 1917 Summer School to a large class of Chapel Hill people and summer visitors, with two local Red Cross members helping with bandaging. The course closed with practical and written examinations sent from Washington. People: Charles Staples Mangum Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 24
  5. The Tar Heel counts some 300 student cases and three deaths as the three-week campus quarantine eases Confined to the campus for three weeks, the Student Army Training Corps men had their first leave on Saturday, October 19, under orders not to leave town. The paper counted about 300 cases among the students, three deaths and 35 still in the college infirmary, credited the second-year medical students with keeping the toll low, and noted that both of the university's physicians, Dr. Mangum and Dr. MacNider, had fallen ill. People: William de Berniere MacNider, Charles Staples Mangum Place: Chapel HillThe Tar Heel, October 23, 1918, p. 1
  6. A six-acre site is bought for the Orange County Training School's new building With the Training School's building lost to fire, its committee (M. C. S. Noble, Dr. Charles S. Mangum and J. S. Holmes), helped by Black and white citizens, sold the old lot and used the proceeds and the insurance to buy six acres at the end of Church Street beyond Pottersfield, with room for farming and gardening. Construction was to start that summer for about 400 pupils; meanwhile classes met in makeshift quarters, including the Odd Fellows' hall lent free. People: M. C. S. Noble, Charles Staples Mangum, John Simcox Holmes, Bruce L. Bozeman Place: End of Church Street beyond Pottersfield, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 12, 1923, p. 3
  7. Black Chapel Hill raises money to clear ground for a new Orange County Training School At a meeting called by the Black parent-teacher association in the interest of the Orange County Training School, Black residents took up 'How We Can Build a School' and reported $241 raised among themselves in about a week to start clearing the site for a new building at the end of Church Street. M. C. S. Noble, E. W. Knight, J. S. Holmes and Dr. C. S. Mangum spoke for the white townspeople. People: M. C. S. Noble, Edgar Wallace Knight, John Simcox Holmes, Charles Staples Mangum Place: Orange County Training School, end of Church Street, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 13, 1923, p. 4
  8. The Orange County Training School holds its commencement at Rock Hill Baptist Church The Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black children, held its closing exercises at Rock Hill Baptist Church, where five seniors spoke, Principal B. L. Bozeman told of the school's growth, and Professor E. D. Mickle of Durham gave the address. Dr. Charles S. Mangum described the new building planned at the end of Church Street and how Black residents had kept the school going after its building burned about three years before; the Weekly noted it was one of three Orange schools with eleven grades. People: Bruce L. Bozeman, Charles Staples Mangum Place: Rock Hill Baptist Church, Chapel Hill · Also named: E. D. Mickle · Also mentions: Orange County Training SchoolThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 22, 1924, p. 1
  9. The contract is let for the new Orange County Training School building After two rounds of bids came in too high, the contract for the Orange County Training School's new building went to F. M. Williams of Durham at $17,550, of which the county board of education gave $15,000 and the General Education Board $2,550. The one-story brick and tile building, with nine classrooms and an auditorium for 400 pupils, was to stand on six and a half acres at the north end of Church Street and be done by October 1. People: M. C. S. Noble, Charles Staples Mangum, John Simcox Holmes Place: North end of Church Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: F. M. WilliamsThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 3, 1924, p. 1
  10. Orange County Training School pupils celebrate their new building with a $105 gift To celebrate the opening of the new Orange County Training School building at the north end of Church Street, the Black school children held a rally, had their photograph taken, played a football game and made up a gift of $105 for the school, more than 70 of them giving a dollar each. The faculty thanked the white school committee of M. C. S. Noble, Charles S. Mangum and J. S. Holmes and the Black and white donors who had helped build it. People: M. C. S. Noble, Charles Staples Mangum, John Simcox Holmes Place: Orange County Training School, Church Street, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 18, 1924, p. 1
  11. Orange County commissioners vote $1,500 to rid the county's cattle of tuberculosis After Dr. A. A. Husman, a federal veterinarian, and Dr. Charles S. Mangum spoke for it, and the farmers present voted 91 to 1 in favor, the commissioners voted $1,500 as the county's share of testing its cattle for tuberculosis. Infected cows were to be killed with two-thirds indemnity from the state and nation, and Orange became an accredited county, quarantined against cattle from counties outside the plan. People: Charles Staples Mangum Place: Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: A. A. HusmanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 7, 1925, p. 1
  12. The Orange County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations names a committee to find work for the unemployed At its September meeting in Hillsboro, with Mrs. Grover Bivins presiding, the county PTA council heard Dr. Charles Mangum urge a public health nurse for the county and George H. Lawrence describe the outlook for relief. It appointed a committee to plan ways of giving the unemployed work rather than only food and clothing. People: Charles Staples Mangum, George H. Lawrence Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Mrs. Grover BivinsThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1931, p. 3
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  1. University freshmen start a weekly pension for retired janitor Anthony Johnson The freshman class took up a weekly collection at Memorial Hall to pension Anthony Johnson, the Black janitor of the medical building who had retired in old age, and the student assembly honored him with a tribute from Dr. Charles S. Mangum while he sat on the stage. People: Charles Staples Mangum Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Anthony JohnsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, February 19, 1932, p. 1
  2. Charles S. Mangum serves as dean of the UNC School of Medicine Charles Staples Mangum took Isaac Hall Manning's place as dean of the university's medical school by late September 1933, after Manning resigned, and led it until 1937, when William de Berniere MacNider succeeded him. People: Isaac Hall Manning, William de Berniere MacNider Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Isaac Hall Manning's History of the U.N.C. School of Medicine, 1879-1937; 1940 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 29, 1933, p. 1
  3. The Medical School, the School of Engineering and the State Board of Health give two twelve-week public health courses Prodded by M. V. Ziegler of the Public Health Service, the three bodies offered two twelve-week short courses in the 1934-35 school year. Eleven students divided their time between classes and practical work at State Board of Health offices in Raleigh and at county health departments. A first short course in public health administration, set for the fall of 1933, had drawn three registrants and been canceled. People: Charles Staples Mangum Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: M. V. ZieglerSearch the index · Robert Rodgers Korstad, Dreaming of a Time: The School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1939-1989 (1990), scan p. 32 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 5, 1934, p. 3
  4. Dean Charles Mangum approaches Milton Rosenau as UNC sets up a Division of Public Health At State Health Officer Carl Reynolds's urging, medical school dean Charles Mangum reached out to Milton Rosenau. In 1935 the university created a Division of Public Health in the medical school under Rosenau, which began classes in fall 1936 and became the School of Public Health in 1940. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Milton Rosenau, Carl Reynolds · Also mentions: School of Public HealthSearch the index · UNC Research: Championing Public Health (Alyssa LaFaro, 2022)
  5. Dr. Charles Mangum outlines a proposed federally aided health district tied to UNC training Early in June 1935 Dr. Charles S. Mangum explained to the Orange County commissioners in Hillsboro, and on the evening of June 5 to the Chapel Hill aldermen, a proposed public health district of Orange, Person and Caswell counties, largely paid for by the U.S. Public Health Service. The commissioners assured him Orange would give up to $2,500 of its $3,600 share, and Person and Caswell had agreed to pay theirs. On June 14 the Weekly printed his article on the plan, which would also train health officers, sanitary inspectors, public health nurses and secretaries, building on UNC's 1934 to 1935 public health administration courses. People: Charles Staples Mangum Place: Orange CountyThe Chapel Hill Weekly, June 14, 1935, p. 1 (Dr. Mangum Tells of Health Service Proposed for Three-County District) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 7, 1935, p. 1
  6. The temporary county health unit vaccinates 4,200 people against typhoid in southern Orange In its summer campaign against a typhoid outbreak, the temporary county health unit vaccinated 4,200 people in the southern half of Orange County and then held final clinics at St. Mary's, Caldwell, Schley, Walnut Grove, Carr and Aycock schools on August 6 and 8. People: Charles Staples Mangum Place: Southern Orange County and six schools in northern OrangeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 2, 1935, p. 4
  7. County board of health postpones the Chapel Hill school opening for infantile paralysis After two new cases at the end of August, one of them a three-year-old Carrboro boy who died on August 31, the Orange County board of health ordered the Chapel Hill school to open on September 23 instead of September 16. At the same meeting it let its two physician members quarantine a contagious disease in an emergency until the county quarantine officer could act. People: Charles Staples Mangum Place: Chapel Hill school, West Franklin Street, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1935, p. 1
  8. UNC's new Division of Public Health admits its first students Under a December 13, 1935 agreement among the university, the State Board of Health and the Public Health Service, the Medical School opened a Division of Public Health under Dr. Milton J. Rosenau as the training center for an eight-state sanitary district. Four health officer trainees enrolled for the winter quarter, fifty-one health workers had registered by March 28, and forty-six enrolled when classes began in the fall. Rosenau first had his office in Caldwell Hall. People: M. J. (Milton Joseph) Rosenau, Charles Staples Mangum Place: Caldwell Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · Robert Rodgers Korstad, Dreaming of a Time: The School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1939-1989 (1990), scan p. 36 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 21, 1936, p. 6
  9. A federally financed public health training course for the Southeastern states opens at the University On March 23, 1936 the new public health division of the University medical school, under Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, began a twelve-week course for 47 physicians, sanitary engineers and sanitary inspectors from Virginia, West Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. The Weekly reported that the Government had chosen Chapel Hill as the teaching center for the Southeastern district, paid for largely with Social Security money allotted by the states. People: M. J. (Milton Joseph) Rosenau, Charles Staples Mangum Place: University of North Carolina medical school, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 27, 1936, p. 1
  10. Protesting citizens get the aldermen to put off the new garbage ordinance The day after the town tried its new tax-supported garbage collection, about a score of citizens led by historian H. M. Wagstaff came to the aldermen's meeting to object to a rule that containers be set in sight of the street, and some to shifting the cost onto taxpayers. The board put off the ordinance, sent the trucks back to the old method, and soon dropped the disputed rule. People: Charles Staples Mangum, John M. Booker, Clyde Eubanks, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs Place: Board of aldermen meeting, Chapel Hill · Also named: H. M. WagstaffSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 14, 1936, p. 1
  11. William de Berniere MacNider serves as dean of the UNC School of Medicine MacNider succeeded Charles Staples Mangum, who had asked to be relieved, as dean of the medical school in 1937: the trustees' executive committee recommended him late in May and the full board was to act on June 4. He resigned the deanship in 1940 to return to research; the Weekly reported his resignation on June 7, and W. Reece Berryhill became acting dean on July 1. People: William de Berniere MacNider, Charles Staples Mangum Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: W. Reece BerryhillSearch the index · NCpedia: MacNider, William de Berniere · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 4, 1937, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 24, 1937, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 7, 1940, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 5, 1940, p. 3
  12. The Orange, Person and Chatham boards of health meet together in Hillsborough At the joint meeting in the courthouse, Dr. Charles S. Mangum reviewed the district health unit's growth to a staff of 14 under Dr. W. P. Richardson and a $43,000 budget, and the boards named an executive committee to draw up a district health program. A proposed three-county home of 50 to 70 beds for incurable tuberculosis patients drew strong support but no formal action. People: Charles Staples Mangum, William P. Richardson Place: Courthouse, HillsboroughThe Chapel Hill Weekly, February 11, 1938, p. 1
  13. Dr. Charles S. Mangum, UNC anatomy professor and former medical dean, dies Dr. Charles Staples Mangum died at Chapel Hill on the night of September 29, 1939, at 69. He had come to Chapel Hill as a child when his father joined the faculty in 1875, taught in the medical school for 43 years, was professor of anatomy from 1905 and dean of the medical school from 1933 to 1937, and was buried in the Chapel Hill cemetery on October 1. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill cemeterySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 6, 1939, p. 3

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  1. Wesley Critz George becomes head of UNC's anatomy department W. C. George, professor of histology and embryology in the medical school since 1924, was made head of the department of anatomy, succeeding the late Charles S. Mangum. A 1911 graduate who had taught at Guilford, Georgia and Tennessee, he had also laid out and supervised the building of the Chapel Hill golf course. People: W. C. George (Wesley Critz George), Charles Staples Mangum Place: UNC School of Medicine, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 16, 1940, p. 2

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A survey of medical education at the University of North Carolina, February 1933

Mangum, Charles S. (Charles Staples), 1870-1939; Bullitt, James Bell, 1874-1964; MacNider, William de Berniere, 1881-1951 · 1933 · School of Medicine, University of North Carolina

A committee of three medical faculty, Charles S. Mangum, James Bell Bullitt and William deB. MacNider, surveyed medical education at the University of North Carolina and signed their report in February 1933. The School of Medicine printed it in Chapel Hill. Topics include medical colleges in Chapel Hill and medical personnel in the state, making it a source on the school before its later expansion.

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Final examinations and preparedness : look out for grippe and colds

Mangum, Charles S. (Charles Staples), 1870-1939 · 1916 · [University of North Carolina], College Physician

Notice to students from Charles S. Mangum, the college physician at the University of North Carolina, printed at Chapel Hill in 1916 and advising them on guarding against grippe and colds through the final examination period. Mangum writes of protecting the fortress of the body. Topics include the health and hygiene of students at Chapel Hill.

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Patterson's General Store Ledger

Store, Patterson's General · 1910

Account ledger of Patterson's General Store in Chapel Hill for 1910 to 1911, recording what customers owed. Accounts run from townspeople and the university Athletic Association to figures such as Kemp Plummer Battle, Edward Kidder Graham, Collier Cobb, Horace Williams and Louis Round Wilson, and firms including the Bank of Chapel Hill, Odell Hardware, Standard Oil and the Southern Railway. Part of North Carolina Memory.

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