ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS DABNEY.
Commonwealth Attorney.
Prosecuting Attorney Dabney is
quite a young man, and great credit is
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due him when full consideration is
given to what he has accomplished in
his profession, and the great responsibilities
that now rest upon him. He
is the son of the late W. D. Dabney,
professor of Law at the University of
Virginia, where the subject of this
sketch received the degree of Bachelor
of Law. Mr. Dabney is of the well
known law firm of Dabney & Fowler,
and he is Commonwealth Attorney for
the city of Charlottesville, an Ex-member
of the City Council and former
United States Commissioner. As a
young lawyer he speedily acquired
distinction and it was not long before
his talents caused him to outgrow the
restricted limits of ordinary civil
practice. He had the faculty of grasping
and comprehending in the most
minute manner the details of all that
was most essential in both civil and
criminal jurisprudence, and imbibing
almost intuitively the intricacies of
the laws.
