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
• Archibald Dixon
• 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
• Romulus M. Saunders
• D. E. Scarborough
• Jacob Thompson
• John Tucker
• Ernest Frederick Upchurch, Sr.
• Ernest Frederick Upchurch, Jr.
• Louis M. Warlick (Milton)
• Col. Robert B. Watt (firm of Watt and Withers)
• Robert T. Wilson
• William S. Wilson
• Col. Benton Withers (firm of Watt and Withers)
• Bartlett Yancey, Jr.