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Dr. Loton G. Watson
Dr. Loton G. Watson was town clerk, register of deeds and taught in Oxford Female Academy. He went to Kentucky and became famous as a physician and as a professor in Transylvania Medical College. He married a daughter of Benjamin Hillyard. (from Hays, Oxford Men and Women, Vol. 16, pages 143-145) Archibald Hunter Arrington (A. H. A.) Williams (1842-1895) Born near Louisburg, Franklin County, N.C., October 22, 1842, Archibald Hunter Arrington William attended the common schools and Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va. He enlisted in the Confederate Army at the start of the Civil War and served as a private in Company H, 12th North Carolina Infantry. Transferred to Company F, 55th North Carolina Infantry, he rose to 1st Lieutenant and commander of his company, served four years in the Army of Northern Virginia, and saw action all the way to the April 1865 surrender at Appomattox where he was serving as captain of his company. After the war, he engaged in agricultural pursuits and in retail trade in Oxford, Granville County, NC. Williams was instrumental in the completion of the Oxford and Henderson Railroad and served as its president. He sat in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1883 to 1885. In 1890 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from the Fifth Congressional District, a former Republican stronghold. Williams lost his bid for reelection in 1892 to Thomas Settle in a hotly disputed contest. He was a member of the Masonic lodge and the Order of Odd Fellows. For many years he served as one of the directors of the Oxford Orphan Asylum. Williams died in Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, September 5, 1895 (age 52 year, 318 days). Interment was at Elmwood Cemetery, Oxford, NC. Dr. Loton G. Watson Dr. Loton G. Watson was town clerk, register of deeds and taught in Oxford Female Academy. He went to Kentucky and became famous as a physician and as a professor in Transylvania Medical College. He married a daughter of Benjamin Hillyard. (from Hays, Oxford Men and Women, Vol. 16, pages 143-145) James Wyche James Wyche was a member of the NC House of Representatives from 1829-1833 and of the Senate from 1834-35. (from Hays, Oxford Men and Women, Vol. 16, pages 143-145) James Mitchell Wiggins (1803- ) James Mitchell Wiggins was a partner in the drug store of his half brother-in-law, Colonel Rush J. Mitchell. The store was the repository of the stock of the Granville Branch of the American Bible Society of which Mr. Wiggins was Secretary. Wiggins was clerk of the old county court from 1836-1848 in which court he was one of the presiding justices. He was town clerk, commission and chairman of the board (mayor), secretary of the Oxford Academy, secretary of the Granville Agricultural Society, election inspector, and tax lister. He taught class in the Presbyterian Sunday School as a youth, clerker for Littlejohn and Locher, merchants and tanners. In 1830, Wiggins bought about five acres near Oxford from Thomas B. Littlejohn for $60.90 and on it built and lived in the house that became the lower part of the Hays house on Hays St. Wiggins was defeated in 1848 for re-election as county clerk. He left Oxford in disgust, moving to Texas. He became postmaster in Rush, TX. Wiggins died in 1880. |