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Dabney was educated at the Jackson Boys’ School and Dyer’s Military Academy in his native New Orleans. He obtained a bachelor's degree in 1905 from the University of the South in Sewanee, [[Tennessee]], and a master's in 1906 from [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-d/|title=Dabney, Thomas Ewing|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography''|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref>

Dabney was educated at the Jackson Boys’ School and Dyer’s Military Academy in his native New Orleans. He obtained a bachelor's degree in 1905 from the University of the South in Sewanee, [[Tennessee]], and a master's in 1906 from [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-d/|title=Dabney, Thomas Ewing|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography''|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref>

In 1907, he married the former Winifred "Winnie" Michaels (1885-1970), a native of [[London]], [[England]], who outlived her husband by only seven months and died in Covington in [[suburb]]an St. Tammany Parish. The couple had a son and three daughters.  David Fortesque Dabney, a [[World War II]] veteran and a civil engineer, was born in Pensacola in 1917 and died in 2010 in [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]], [[Alabama]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60742910/david-fortesque-dabney|title=David Fortesque Dabney|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref> The daughters were Patricia Dabney Bush and Dorothy D. Kehoe, both of Covington, Louisiana, and Natalie D. Arnold of Lompoc in Santa Barbara County, [[California]].<ref><{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69149921/winifred-dabney|title=Winifred "Winnie" Michaels Dabney|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref>

In 1907, he married the former Winifred "Winnie" Michaels (1885-1970), a native of [[London]], [[England]], who outlived her husband by only seven months and died in Covington in [[suburb]]an St. Tammany Parish. The couple had a son and three daughters.  David Fortesque Dabney, a [[World War II]] veteran and a civil engineer, was born in Pensacola in 1917 and died in 2010 in [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]], [[Alabama]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60742910/david-fortesque-dabney|title=David Fortesque Dabney|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref> The daughters were Patricia Dabney Bush and Dorothy D. Kehoe, both of Covington, Louisiana, and Natalie D. Arnold of Lompoc in Santa Barbara County, [[California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69149921/winifred-dabney|title=Winifred "Winnie" Michaels Dabney|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref>

==Career==

==Career==

In 1907, at the age of twenty-two, Dabney was named the third secretary of the United States Embassy in [[Mexico]] and was thereafter promoted to second secretary. He also worked briefly at the  embassy in [[El Salvador]]. He returned to the USA in 1912 and settled in Ocean Springs, [[Mississippi]], where he operated a dairy, developed a pecan orchard, and edited ''The Ocean Springs News.'' From 1917 to 1918, he was the editor of '''The Pensacola  ([[Florida]]) Journal.''<ref name=lahist/>  

In 1907, at the age of twenty-two, Dabney was named the third secretary of the United States Embassy in [[Mexico]] and was thereafter promoted to second secretary. He also worked briefly at the  embassy in [[El Salvador]]. He returned to the USA in 1912 and settled in Ocean Springs, [[Mississippi]], where he operated a dairy, developed a pecan orchard, and edited ''The Ocean Springs News.'' From 1917 to 1918, he was the editor of '''The Pensacola  ([[Florida]]) Journal.''<ref name=lahist/>