Henry C. Bradsby

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Henry C. Bradsby
OccupationHistorian and biographer
LanguageEnglish
SubjectUnited States local history

Colonel Henry C. Bradsby, often credited as H.C. Bradsby, was a late 19th-century American historian and biographer. Many of his works are extensive local histories of various United States counties in Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Pennsylvania, several of which totaled more than a thousand pages.

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References

  1. Bradsby, Henry C. (August 12, 1885). "History of Bureau County, Illinois". Unigraphic via Google Books.
  2. Bradsby, Henry C. (August 12, 1891). History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania: With Biographical Selections. S. B. Nelson via Internet Archive.