Charles William Dabney

[1] He taught for a year at Emory and Henry College and then entered the University of Göttingen in Germany in 1878 and graduated with a Ph.D. in 1880.He returned to the United States where he married Mary Chilton Brent of Fayette County, Kentucky, and they had three daughters.As president, he added six new four-year courses in science, and admitted the university's first female students.[1][5] Dabney received honorary doctorates from Yale, Johns Hopkins, Davidson, and Washington and Lee universities.[2] Dabney Hall, home of the Department of Chemistry at North Carolina State University, was named in his honor.
Portrait of Dabney by Lloyd Branson
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