Lawyers

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Here is just a partial list of the lawyers who have been important to Caswell County. We hope to add many more and to provide a brief historical sketch of each. If you have stories, photographs, anecdotes, or any other materials relating to the lawyers of Caswell County, please send them to the CCHA Webmaster.

• Spencer Blackburn Adams
• Thomas Pattillo Bigelow (1802-1873)
• Archibald Dixon
• John Azariah Graves (1822-1864)
• Archibald Erskine ("Baldy") Henderson (1843-1918)
• Samuel P. Hill (Yanceyville)
• W. Banks Horton
• Hon. John Hosea Kerr (1873-1958) (Yanceyville)
• Julius Johnston (law partner of his brother Pinkney Johnston)
• Pinkney Johnston (Law partner of his brother Julius Johnston)
• Jacob Elmer Long
• Jacob A. Long (father of Lieutenant Governor J. Elmer Long)
• Archibald DeBow Murphey (1777-1832)
• Clarence L. Pemberton (1908-1995)
• Romulus M. Saunders (1791-1867)
• Dawson Emerson Scarborough (1899-1979)
• Jacob Thompson (1810-1885)
• John Tucker
• Ernest Frederick Upchurch, Sr. (1877-1960)
• Ernest Frederick Upchurch, Jr. (1907-1954)
• Louis M. Warlick (Milton)
• Col. Robert B. Watt (firm of Watt and Withers)
• Robert T. Wilson (1883-1952)
• William S. Wilson
• Col. Benton Withers (1836-1898) (firm of Watt and Withers)
• Bartlett Yancey, Jr. (1785-1828)