Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #4724-z
                     E. LEFF WAGONER PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      E. Leff Wagoner was superintendent of public
           instruction in Alleghany County, N.C., around the turn
           of the 20th century.
               Letters, 1901-1905, relating to public education
           in Alleghany County, N.C., most of them from Wagoner
           to Martin A. Higgins, chair of the Alleghany County
           Board of Education.  Letters relate chiefly to
           management issues, including Wagoner's apparently
           constant battle to compile enough information on
           activities at the county schools to allow him to make
           informed budget requests to Raleigh.  There are also a
           few letters from Wagoner to teachers, chiefly
           summoning them to meetings and informing them of the
           district's progress, and a few letters from state
           superintendent James Yadkin Joyner, including one in
           1904 instructing school boards members on how to
           select a county superintendent. 

Online Catalog Terms:
   Alleghany County (N.C.)--History--20th century.
   Education--North Carolina--Alleghany County.
   Education--North Carolina--Finance--History--20th century.
   Higgins, Martin A.
   Joyner, James Yadkin, 1862-1954.
   School boards--North Carolina--History--20th century.
   School districts--North Carolina--History--20th century.
   School superintendents and principals--North Carolina--History
       --20th century.
   Schools--North Carolina--Alleghany County--History--20th
       century.
   Teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
   Wagoner, E. Leff.

Size:  29 items (1 folder).

Provenance:    Purchased from Bookworms and Silverfish in June
               1994 (Acc. 94143).

Access:        No restrictions.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.