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Paul W. Wager

Paul W. Wager taught at UNC from 1926 to 1964 and was the first faculty member there to teach undergraduate courses in county administration and natural resources administration. In Chapel Hill he served on the Planning Board and the Board of Aldermen and was a charter member of the Chapel Hill Historical Society.

Source: UNC School of Government MPA: Paul Wager Scholarship

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Orange County, 1752-1952, edited by Hugh Lefler and Paul Wager

Lefler, Hugh Talmage,; Wager, Paul W. · 1953

Hugh Lefler and Paul Wager edited this history of Orange County covering 1752 to 1952, published in 1953 for the county's two hundredth year in 389 pages with illustrations, portraits and maps.

Chapel Hill about 1818, as remembered by W.D. Moseley

Igoe, Lynn · 1976

Chapel Hill as W.D. Moseley, class of 1818 and later governor of Florida, remembered it in his student days, mapped from his 1853 account. Paul Wager plotted it and Lynn Igoe designed it; the Chapel Hill Historical Society published the map in 1976.

Recording with Dr. Paul Wager, 1973 (Chapel Hill Historical Society cassette)

1973

Dr. Paul Wager, recorded on cassette in 1973 for the Chapel Hill Historical Society. Part of the society's CHHS.012 Audiovisual Materials Collection.

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  1. Hugh Lefler and Paul Wager edit a bicentennial history of Orange County For the county's 200th anniversary, Lefler and Wager edited Orange County, 1752-1952, with chapters by about fifteen contributors on early history, agriculture, industry, schools and more, plus a dictionary of county biography and lists of county officials.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Orange County History Guide, General History
  2. Hubert Robinson and Paul Wager are elected to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen Robinson led the five candidates with 571 votes and Wager followed with 560; Kenneth Putnam took the third seat. The Weekly noted Robinson was the second Black person elected to public office in Chapel Hill, the first since Reconstruction, and it was Wager's first run for office. People: Hubert Robinson, Wilson Swain CaldwellSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1953, p. 1 (Robinson Gets Largest Vote; Other Winners: Wager, Putnam)
  3. Roland Giduz and Adelaide Walters are elected to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen In a heavy turnout that also re-elected Mayor Oliver K. Cornwell and approved a $500,000 bond issue, voters re-elected aldermen Hubert Robinson and Paul Wager and chose two new members, Adelaide Walters and Roland Giduz. As low man among the winners, Giduz drew a two-year term. People: Paul W. Wager, Hubert Robinson, Adelaide Walters, Oliver K. CornwellSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1957, page 1 (Heavy Vote Approves Bond Issue and Ten Candidates for Office)
  4. McClamroch is sworn in as mayor and Joe Page is named to his aldermen seat McClamroch and three re-elected aldermen, Adelaide Walters, Paul Wager and Hubert Robinson, were sworn in at the Monday night meeting of the Board of Aldermen by Recorder's Court Judge William Stewart. The board named businessman Joe Page to the unexpired two year aldermen's term McClamroch left on becoming mayor, and elected Mrs. Walters mayor pro tem. People: Paul W. Wager, Hubert Robinson, Adelaide WaltersSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 11, 1961, page 1 (Joe Page Gets Appointment To Board Of Aldermen)

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