He was born at the old Long place near Graham, NC, the son of Jacob and Jane Stuart Stockard Long.
He attended Alexander Wilson's school near Graham.
He joined the militia at Staunton Military Academy in VA in May 1864. He enlisted as a private in Company C, 1st Virginia Light Artillery in battery of company of Capt. Samuel T. Wright in the artillery of Anderson's (or Pendleton's) corps. By March 1865, he was promoted to Corporal and was at Hare's Hill.
In 1868, during Reconstruction, he was named chief of Camp Number One of the Ku Klux Klan in Alamance County as well as the Klan "Chief of the County".
He studied law at Hillsboro, NC with William Ruffin and was licensed to practice in 1870.
He took flight to Lafayette County, Missouri in July of 1870 and remained six months. His oldest brother, John Henry Long, lived in Lexington Township, Lafayette County, Missouri, a Klan stronghold, when the 1870 census was taken. John Long had originally moved to Ray County, Missouri by 1857, when he was married there. This was in an area very close to the Clay County line, and basically in Jesse James'
neighborhood.
Later, about 1876, it is recorded that Jake Long met with outlaw Jesse James in the Caswell County Court House in Yanceyville, NC.
He practiced law in Graham for two years but by 1880, he was practicing law in Yanceyville. For three years he was an attorney in Durham, but then returned to Graham, where he remained for the rest of his life.
In 1886, he was nominated by the Democratic party for solicitor of the Fifth District, but was defeated by the republican candidate. In 1893, he was his party's candidate for the General Assembly and was elected, serving a single term.
He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church and a Sunday School Superintendent.
Some sources:
-Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: L-O, edited by William S. Powell.
-Desperate Measures: Jesse James and the Klan Battles of Reconstruction, by Ralph P. Ganis.
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He attended Alexander Wilson's school near Graham.
He joined the militia at Staunton Military Academy in VA in May 1864. He enlisted as a private in Company C, 1st Virginia Light Artillery in battery of company of Capt. Samuel T. Wright in the artillery of Anderson's (or Pendleton's) corps. By March 1865, he was promoted to Corporal and was at Hare's Hill.
In 1868, during Reconstruction, he was named chief of Camp Number One of the Ku Klux Klan in Alamance County as well as the Klan "Chief of the County".
He studied law at Hillsboro, NC with William Ruffin and was licensed to practice in 1870.
He took flight to Lafayette County, Missouri in July of 1870 and remained six months. His oldest brother, John Henry Long, lived in Lexington Township, Lafayette County, Missouri, a Klan stronghold, when the 1870 census was taken. John Long had originally moved to Ray County, Missouri by 1857, when he was married there. This was in an area very close to the Clay County line, and basically in Jesse James'
neighborhood.
Later, about 1876, it is recorded that Jake Long met with outlaw Jesse James in the Caswell County Court House in Yanceyville, NC.
He practiced law in Graham for two years but by 1880, he was practicing law in Yanceyville. For three years he was an attorney in Durham, but then returned to Graham, where he remained for the rest of his life.
In 1886, he was nominated by the Democratic party for solicitor of the Fifth District, but was defeated by the republican candidate. In 1893, he was his party's candidate for the General Assembly and was elected, serving a single term.
He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church and a Sunday School Superintendent.
Some sources:
-Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: L-O, edited by William S. Powell.
-Desperate Measures: Jesse James and the Klan Battles of Reconstruction, by Ralph P. Ganis.
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He was born at the old Long place near Graham, NC, the son of Jacob and Jane Stuart Stockard Long.
He attended Alexander Wilson's school near Graham.
He joined the militia at Staunton Military Academy in VA in May 1864. He enlisted as a private in Company C, 1st Virginia Light Artillery in battery of company of Capt. Samuel T. Wright in the artillery of Anderson's (or Pendleton's) corps. By March 1865, he was promoted to Corporal and was at Hare's Hill.
In 1868, during Reconstruction, he was named chief of Camp Number One of the Ku Klux Klan in Alamance County as well as the Klan "Chief of the County".
He studied law at Hillsboro, NC with William Ruffin and was licensed to practice in 1870.
He took flight to Lafayette County, Missouri in July of 1870 and remained six months. His oldest brother, John Henry Long, lived in Lexington Township, Lafayette County, Missouri, a Klan stronghold, when the 1870 census was taken. John Long had originally moved to Ray County, Missouri by 1857, when he was married there. This was in an area very close to the Clay County line, and basically in Jesse James'
neighborhood.
Later, about 1876, it is recorded that Jake Long met with outlaw Jesse James in the Caswell County Court House in Yanceyville, NC.
He practiced law in Graham for two years but by 1880, he was practicing law in Yanceyville. For three years he was an attorney in Durham, but then returned to Graham, where he remained for the rest of his life.
In 1886, he was nominated by the Democratic party for solicitor of the Fifth District, but was defeated by the republican candidate. In 1893, he was his party's candidate for the General Assembly and was elected, serving a single term.
He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church and a Sunday School Superintendent.
Some sources:
-Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: L-O, edited by William S. Powell.
-Desperate Measures: Jesse James and the Klan Battles of Reconstruction, by Ralph P. Ganis.
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He attended Alexander Wilson's school near Graham.
He joined the militia at Staunton Military Academy in VA in May 1864. He enlisted as a private in Company C, 1st Virginia Light Artillery in battery of company of Capt. Samuel T. Wright in the artillery of Anderson's (or Pendleton's) corps. By March 1865, he was promoted to Corporal and was at Hare's Hill.
In 1868, during Reconstruction, he was named chief of Camp Number One of the Ku Klux Klan in Alamance County as well as the Klan "Chief of the County".
He studied law at Hillsboro, NC with William Ruffin and was licensed to practice in 1870.
He took flight to Lafayette County, Missouri in July of 1870 and remained six months. His oldest brother, John Henry Long, lived in Lexington Township, Lafayette County, Missouri, a Klan stronghold, when the 1870 census was taken. John Long had originally moved to Ray County, Missouri by 1857, when he was married there. This was in an area very close to the Clay County line, and basically in Jesse James'
neighborhood.
Later, about 1876, it is recorded that Jake Long met with outlaw Jesse James in the Caswell County Court House in Yanceyville, NC.
He practiced law in Graham for two years but by 1880, he was practicing law in Yanceyville. For three years he was an attorney in Durham, but then returned to Graham, where he remained for the rest of his life.
In 1886, he was nominated by the Democratic party for solicitor of the Fifth District, but was defeated by the republican candidate. In 1893, he was his party's candidate for the General Assembly and was elected, serving a single term.
He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church and a Sunday School Superintendent.
Some sources:
-Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: L-O, edited by William S. Powell.
-Desperate Measures: Jesse James and the Klan Battles of Reconstruction, by Ralph P. Ganis.
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