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Henry Reed Stiles
1832–1909
A doctor by training and a historian by passion, he became one of the key chroniclers of Brooklyn and of old New England family lines. His books blend careful research with the energy of someone determined to preserve local history before it disappeared.
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Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America
by Henry Reed Stiles
About the author
Born in New York City in 1832, Henry Reed Stiles trained as a physician but built a lasting reputation as a historian and genealogist. He practiced medicine in New York and also spent several years in Dundee, Scotland, yet much of his enduring influence came from his writing rather than his medical work.
Stiles is best known for major historical and genealogical works, especially A History of the City of Brooklyn and The Stiles Family in America. His research focused on the people, towns, and family networks of New York and Connecticut, and his books have remained useful to later historians and family researchers.
He died in 1909, but his work still stands as part of the foundation for studying Brooklyn's past and tracing early American family histories. What makes him memorable is the mix of professional discipline and antiquarian curiosity that runs through everything he wrote.