William Robert Inge Dalton, the son of Robert Hunter and Jane Martin Henderson Dalton, was born 6 December 1841 in Livingston, Ala. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1859, but resigned in 1861 to join the Confederate Navy. His service was chiefly in bearing dispatches to the Confederate ministers in London and Paris.
After the war, he studied medicine and, in 1884, received a medical degree from St. Louis College. From 1884 to 1903, Dalton practiced in New York City, where he became an expert in dermatology. He moved to Seattle, Wash., in 1903 and continued his medical practice until 1918. He died in Seattle on 25 May 1931.
From the guide to the William Robert Inge Dalton papers, undated, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)
