Citizens of Note in Orange County
excerpted from “Orange County, 1752 – 1952,” edited by Hugh Lefler and Paul Wager
Thomas Wingate Andrews, 1882-1937; Educator
George Edmund Badger, 1795-1866; Secretary of Navy, Senator
Kemp Plummer Battle, 1831-1919; Educator
William Horn Battle, 1802-1879; Lawyer
Richard Behhehan, 1747-1825; Planter, Merchant
Jesse Benton, ___-1790; Lawyer
Thomas Hart Benton, 1782-1858; Senator
Harriet Morehead Berry, 1877-1940; Leader in Good Roads Movement
John Berry, 1798-1870; Builder, Architect
Robert Bingham, 1838-1927; Educator
William Bingham, 1754-1826; Educator
William Bingham, 1835-1873; Educator
William James Bingham, 1802-1866; Educator
Thomas Burke, 1747-1783; Governor
John Butler, ___-1786; Revolutionary Leader
Joseph Caldwell, 1773-1835; First University Prewident
Bennehan Cameron, 1854-1925; Planter, Railroad Official
Duncan Cameron, 1777-1853; Lawyer, Banker
Paul Carrington Cameron, 1808-1891; Planter
Richard Caswell, 1729-1789; Governor
Thomas Child, 1747-1766; Colonial Official
William, ___-1767; Surveyor, Mapmaker
Francis Corbin, 1744-1767; Colonial Official
Moses Ashley Curtis, 1808-1872; Scientist, Clergyman
James Buchanan Duke, 1856-1925; Manufacturer
Washington Duke, 1820-1905; Manufacturer
David Fanning, 1756-1825; Loyalist Leader
Edmund Fanning, 1737-1818; Colonial Official
William Few, 1748-1828; Senator
Samuel Mallette Gattis, 1863-1931; Lawyer
John Washington Graham, 1804-1875; Governor, Secretary of Navy
William Mercer Green, 1798-1889; Bishop
George Emrick Harris, 1827-1911; Congressman
Henri Harrisse, 1829-1910; Bibliographer
Thomas Hart, 1730-1808; Merchant, Land Speculator
Francis Lister Hawks, 1798-1866; Clergyman
Dennis Heartt, 1783-1870; Newspaper Editor
Richard Henderson, 1735-1785; Judge, Land Speculator
James Hogg, 1729-1805; Merchant
William Wood Holden, 1818-1892; Journalist, Governor
Edwin Michael Holt, 1807-1884; Manufacturer
Michael Holt, 1723-1799; Revolutionary Character
Thomas Michael Holt, 1831-1896; Governor
William Hooper, 1742-1790; Signer, Declaration of Independence
George Moses Horton, 1797-1883; Negro Poet
Rednap Howell, ___-1787; Regulator
Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard, 1809-1888; Professor
Roswell Huntington, 1763-1836; Silversmith, Engraver
William huntington, 1792-1874; Merchant, Silversmith
Hermon (Herman, Harmon) Husband, 1724-1795; Regulator
William Johnston, 1769-1791; Merchant, Land Speculator
Pride Jones, 1815-1889; Physician
George Laws, 1801-1881; County Official
John Laws, 1824-1913; County Official
Braxton Bynum Lloyd, 1886-1947; Physician
Thomas F. Lloyd, 1736-1792; Colonial Official
Lemuel Lynch, 1808-1893; Silversmith, Jeweler
Priestly Hinton Mangum, 1792-1861; Senator
William Joseph Martin, 1830-1896; Military Officer, Professor
Alexander Mebane, 1744-1795; Congressman
James Mebane, 1774-1857; Legislator
George Micklejohn, 1717-1817; Clergyman
Elisha Mitchell, 1793-1857; Professor, Explorer
William Montgomery, 1789-1844; Physician, Congressman
Stephen Moore, 1740-1800; Revolutionary Leader
Archibald DeBow Murphey, 1777-1832, Jurist
Francis Nash, 1742-1777; Revolutionary Officer
Francis Nash, 1855-1932; Lawyer
Frederick Nash, 1781-1858; Chief Justice
John Wall Norwood, 1802-1885; Lawyer
William Norwood, 1766-1842; Lawyer, Judge
Denison Olmsted, 1791-1859; Professor
Henry Patillo, 1726-1801; Clergyman
Charles Phillips, 1822-1889; Professor
James Phillips, 1792-1867; Professor
Samuel Field Phillips, 1824-1903; Lawyer
Solomon Pool, 1832-1901; University President
Nathaniel Rochester, 1752-1831; Merchant, County Official
Thomas Ruffin, Sr., 1787-1870; Chief Justice
Thomas Ruffin, Jr., 1824-1889; Lawyer
James Strudwick Smith, 1790-1859; Physician, Congressman
Cornelia Phillips Spencer, 1825-1908; Writer
Richard Stanford, 1767-1816; Congressman
William Franklin Strowd, 1832-1911; Congressman
Edmund Strudwick, 1802-1879; Physician
William Francis Strudwick, ___-1812; Congressman
David Lowrie Swain, 1801-1868; Governor, University President
Absolom Tatom (Tatum), 1742-1802; Congressman
Charles Courteney Tew, 1824-1862; Confederate Officer
James Thackston, 1770-after 1790; Revolutionary Leader
Josiah Turner, Jr., 1821-1901; Lawyer, Confederate Congressman
Francis Preston Venable, 1856-1934; Chemist, University President
Alfred Moore Waddell, 1834-1912; Congressman
Hugh Waddell, 1799-1879; Lawyer
James Watson, ___-1770; County Official
