Henry Bardshar

Who was Henry Bardshar?

Henry Peck Bardshar was an American soldier, miner, mining engineer and U. S. Internal Revenue Collector.

He was born April 6, 1872 at Castalia, Ohio, and was the son of William and Ruth Bardshar, who was a merchant. He was educated in the common schools of Clyde, Ohio, at Oberlin College and Campbell College at Holton, Kansas. He studied mining engineering after coming to Prescott, Arizona, in 1890. He was a miner and mining engineer for fifteen years in Prescott.

In 1898 he volunteered as member of Troop A of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry and served throughout the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War and fought in battles of Las Guasimas, El Pozo and San Juan Hill, with Col. Theodore Roosevelt, and was on Roosevelt's staff as his orderly.

He returned to Arizona after the conclusion of the war and returned to mining until he was appointed as a Collector of Internal Revenue in charge of the Federal Building in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 1, 1905, by Roosevelt. He died on September 20, 1946, and is buried in the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, in Section N.