{"id":337,"date":"2011-12-14T21:41:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T02:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/?page_id=337"},"modified":"2011-12-31T16:38:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T21:38:22","slug":"noteworthy-citizens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/noteworthy-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Noteworthy Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Citizens of Note in Orange County<\/strong><\/p>\n

excerpted from<\/span> “Orange County, 1752 – 1952,” edited by Hugh Lefler and Paul Wager<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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

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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-337","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}