found: Finding aid for Mangum family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, Apr. 14, 2020(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 accounting volumes and scrapbooks. Of note are an 1840s physician's ledger documenting medical care of enslaved people and an 1840s account book with labor contracts for overseers and a list of names 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- ), 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-), 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. Also included are genealogical material; speeches of Willie Person Mangum; reminiscences of Salisbury Prison and other writings; and photographs relating to family members)
