Alfred Henry Dashiell (1793–1881), clergyman and educator, was a native of Kent County, Maryland, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1811. He read law with William Pinkney but turned to the ministry and was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland in 1814. Dashiell moved to Virginia in 1817 and taught at the New London Academy but returned to Maryland late the following year and soon became a Presbyterian clergyman, serving churches in Philadelphia, Illinois, Tennessee, and New York. He was president of the Nashville Female Academy and later of Caldwell College in Rogersville, Tennessee. When the Presbyterian Church split after Southern secession, Dashiell remained loyal to the Union. He died in Brooklyn, New York (University of Pennsylvania Catalogue description begins Will J. Maxwell, comp., General Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, 1917 description ends , 27; Augustus Theodore Norton, History of the Presbyterian Church, in the State of Illinois [1879], 1:217–8; Ethan Allen, Clergy in Maryland of the Protestant Episcopal Church since the independence of 1783 [1860], 30; American Education Society, Quarterly Register and Journal 1 [1829]: 53; American Educational Year-Book [1858]; 203; Philadelphia Inquirer, 21 Mar. 1881; gravestone inscription in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn).