Author talk:Robert Lewis Dabney
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[edit]Robert Lewis Dabney
Born 5 Mar 1820 Louisa Co., VA
Died 3 Jan 1898 Victoria, TX
Father Charles Dabney, b. 1 Jul 1781, Louisa Co., VA
Mother Elizabeth Randolph Price, b. 26 Sep 1784, Hanover Co., VA
Wife Margueritta Lavinia Morrison, b. 11 Oct 1823
Married 28 Mar 1848 Augusta Co., VA
Children six sons
1. Robert Lewis Dabney, b. 10 Feb 1849, Augusta Co., VA
2. James Morrison Dabney, b. 1 Apr 1850, Augusta Co., VA
3. Charles William Dabney, b. 19 Jun 1855, Augusta Co., VA
4. Thomas Price Dabney, b. 5 Sep 1857
5. Samuel Brown Dabney, b. 8 Jun 1859, Prince Edward Co., VA
6. Lewis Meriwether Dabney, b. 11 Aug 1865, Prince Edward Co., VA
Notes: Was born in Louisa county, Virginia, March 5, 1820. He studied at Hampden-Sidney College and later graduated from the University of Virginia in 1842. He taught for two years and then entered the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, was licensed to preach in 1846, ordained by the Lexington Presbytery in July, 1847, and became pastor of Tinkling Spring Church in Augusta county, Virginia, where he remained for six years. In 1853 he accepted the professorship of church history in Union Seminary, Virginia, and remained until 1883, except during the civil war, when he was actively engaged in the Confederate service as chaplain of the Eighteenth Virginia Regiment, and afterward as chief-of-staff to Gen. T. J. Jackson. In 1883 he was elected to the chair of moral philosophy in the University of Texas. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Hampden-Sidney College in 1853, and that of LL. D. by the Southwestern Presbyterian University, Tennessee, in 1877, and simultaneously by Hampden-Sidney College. Besides being a voluminous contributor to periodical literature Dr. Dabney published "Life of Rev. Dr. F. S. Sampson" (Richmond, 1854); "Life of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson" (London, 1864); "Sacred Rhetoric" (Richmond, 1866); "Defence of Virginia and the South" (New York, 1868); "Sensualistic Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century Considered" (1876); "A Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology" (St. Louis, 1878); and "The Christian Sabbath" (Philadelphia, 1881).
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume III
VII--Prominent Persons
SHSP vol.19 page 376
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An Open Letter from Dr. R. [Robert] L.[Lewis] Dabney to Dr. J.[John] William Jones.
[For the Richmond Dispatch, January 2, 1892.]
AUSTIN, TEX. , December 75, 1891
To the Rev. Dr. John William Jones :
Rev. and Dear Sir: My home is now nearly 2,000 miles from Virginia. I am an old man, infirm and totally blind.