| Summary: | This picture shows William Crawford Dowdell, his family, and a group of Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) cadets who roomed with them standing on the steps of Dowdell's home Dovedale in Auburn, Alabama. Standing from left to right are: Dowdell, his wife Elizabeth Caroline Thomas Dowdell, Miss Sanders, and his granddaughter Caroline "Carrie" Elizabeth Merrick. Seated from left to right are: Abernathy (cadet seated on porch column pedestal), Hurt (in dark suit on topmost porch step), Raphael Semmes Kell (cadet seated two steps below Hurt), Prout (cadet on top step), Brooks (cadet), Chandler (in suit), McMillan (cadet seated one step below), and Hendley Varner Kell (cadet) who would later marry Dowdell's daughter Caroline "Caro" Dowdell. The African American boy in front is not identified. William Crawford Dowdell served in Capt. Wallis' Company of the Alabama Home Guard in the Civil War, then later served as mayor of Auburn in the 1870s or 1880s, and finally served as the Auburn postmaster from 1895 to his death in 1901. Anyone with further information may contact the Auburn University Libraries Cataloging Dept. at caudlda@auburn.edu.
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