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Dabney, Charles William – Dadd, George H

Dabney, Charles William

diplomat, was born March 19, 1794, in Alexandria, Va. In 1826 he became United States consul to Fayal. In the famines that visited the island from time to time during his residence, some of which were very severe, he furnished the inhabitants with food, assisted them to replant their fields, advised and suggested the culture of new and more varied crops. He died March 12, 1871, in the Azores.

Dabney, Charles William

educator, chemist, author, was born June 19, 1855, in Hampden Sidney College, Va. He received his education at the Hampden Sidney college, university of Virginia and the universities of Germany. He has been state chemist and director of the North Carolina agricultural experiment station; and director of the Tennessee agricultural experiment station. He has been president of the university of Tennessee, and is the author of a number of scientific works.

Dabney, Richard

educator, poet, was born in 1787 in Louisa county, Va.

He was a noted instructor in Richmond, Va., whose Poems, Original and Translated, contain scholarly translations from Euripides, Alcæus, and other classic poets. He died in November, 1825, in Louisa county, Va.

Dabney, Richard Heath

author, was born in 1859 in Virginia. He is the author of The Causes of the French Revolution.

Dabney, Robert Lewis

educator, clergyman, author, was born March 5, 1820, in Louisa county, Va. He is a presbyterian clergyman; and since 1882 professor of moral philosophy in the university of Texas. He is the author of Life of T. S. Sampson; Life and Campaigns of Gen. Stonewall Jackson; Sacred Rhetoric, or Lectures on Preaching; Defense of Virginia and the South; The Sensualistic Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century; A Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology; The Christian Sabbath; and Collected Discussions.

Dabney, Virginius

soldier, author, was born Feb. 15, 1835, in Gloucester county, Va. He was a staff officer in the confederate service during the civil war, who published Don Miff, a Symphony of Life; and Gold That Did Not Glitter.

Daboll, Celadon Leeds

merchant, inventor, was born July 18, 1818, in Centre Groton, Conn. He conceived the idea of applying the principle of the clarionet to a large trumpet, to serve as a fog signal for mariners. He died Oct. 13, 1866, in Groton, Conn.

Daboll, David Austin

journalist, state legislator, state senator, was born in 1813 in Groton, Conn. He sat continuously in the state house of representatives from 1846 till 1871, and then served a term in the senate. He assisted his father in the preparation of the New Arithmetic, and since his father's death has continued the publication of the New England Almanac.

Daboll, Nathan

educator, author, was born about 1750. He published a treatise on arithmetic, entitled the Schoolmaster's Assistant; and also the Practical Navigator. In 1773 he began the annual publication of the Connecticut Almanac.

He died March 9, 1818, in Groton, Conn.

Daboll, Nathan

jurist, state legislator, author, was born in 1782 in Groton, Conn. He was a member of the Connecticut house of representatives in 1832- 33, of the senate in 1835-36, and judge of probate in 1843-45. He was joint author of Daboll's New Arithmetic, and compiled the New England Almanac from his father's death in 1818 until his own death. He died in 1863 in Groton, Conn.

Dadd, George H

surgeon, author, was born in 1813 in England. He is a veterinary surgeon who has published The Modern Horse Doctor; Manual of Veterinary Science; Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse; and The American Cattle Doctor.