author
P. C. (Phineas Camp) Headley
1819–1903
A 19th-century American clergyman and prolific writer, he turned history, religion, and biography into lively popular reading. His books ranged from biblical studies to lives of figures such as Napoleon, Mary Queen of Scots, and William Tecumseh Sherman.
2 Audiobooks
Life and Military Career of Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman
by P. C. (Phineas Camp) Headley
Half Hours in Bible Lands, Volume 2 Patriarchs, Kings, and Kingdoms
by P. C. (Phineas Camp) Headley
About the author
Born in Walton, New York, in 1819, Phineas Camp Headley was an American minister and author who published widely under the name P. C. Headley. Sources available here describe him as a Congregational clergyman and miscellaneous writer, and note that he later lived in Massachusetts, where he died in 1903.
Headley wrote across several popular 19th-century genres. His work included religious books such as studies of women in the Bible, along with historical and biographical titles on subjects including Napoleon, Empress Josephine, Louis Kossuth, Mary Queen of Scots, General Sherman, and other public figures. Listings from Project Gutenberg and library catalogs show just how broad and energetic his output was.
He seems to have written for general readers rather than specialists, with an eye for dramatic lives and moral themes. That mix of preaching, storytelling, and history helps explain why his books traveled so widely in their time and still surface in digital libraries today.