Career
He was also one of the organizers of the original North Carolina branch of the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction Era. Jacob Alson Long was the sixth of eight children born to Jacob Long and Jane Long (née Stockard). Jacob Alson Long served briefly in Captain Wright’s Company of the Virginia Heavy Artillery.
After serving in the Civil War, Jacob Alson Long studied law under attorney William Kirkland Ruffin.
Jacob Alson Long was one of the organizers of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan. Serving as the Chief of the County, he was instrumental in anchoring the Klan"s activities in Alamance and Caswell Counties.
lieutenant is likely that Jacob Alson Long was involved (directly or indirectly) in the lynching of Wyatt Outlaw and the murder of John West. Stephens.
