Author

R. L. Dabney (1820–1898)

Planter, quarryman, builder, teacher, pastor, architect, theologian, writer, army chaplain, soldier, husband, and father – Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898) was all of these, and more. He was born on 5 March, 1820 in Louisa County, Virginia, of mixed English, Huguenot, and Scottish descent (the Huguenot ancestry being from the family originally known as d’Aubigné).