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.