Henry Peck Bardshar was a soldier, miner, mining engineer
and U. S. Internal Revenue Collector. He was born April 6, 1872 at Castalia, Ohio

Castalia, Ohio

Castalia is a village in Erie County, Ohio, United States. The population was 935 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Sandusky, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Castalia is located at ....

, and was the son of
William and Ruth Bardshar, who was a merchant. He was educated in the common
schools of Clyde, Ohio

Clyde, Ohio

Clyde is a city in Sandusky County, Ohio, United States. The population was 6,064 at the 2000 census. The National Arbor Day Foundation has designated Clyde as a Tree City USA....

, at Oberlin College

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...

 and Campbell College

Campbell College (Kansas)

Campbell College was a former college in Holton, Kansas. It was initially planned in 1870 and opened in 1880 with a large part of the funding provided by A. G. Campbell a wealthy Utah mine owner and former Jackson County, Kansas resident, for whom it was named. It initially operated under the...

 at Holton, Kansas

Holton, Kansas

Holton is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,329. It is part of the Topeka, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

.
He studied mining engineering after coming to Prescott, Arizona

Prescott, Arizona

Prescott is a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. It was designated "Arizona's Christmas City" by Arizona Governor Rose Mofford in the late 1980s....

 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 (Rough Riders

Rough Riders

The Rough Riders is the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War and the only one of the three to see action. The United States Army was weakened and left with little manpower after the American Civil War...

) and served throughout the
Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War

Spanish-American War

The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...

 and fought in
battles of Las Guasimas

Battle of Las Guasimas

The Battle of Las Guasimas of June 24, 1898, part of the Spanish-American War, unfolded from Major General "Fighting Joe" Wheeler's attempt to storm a Spanish position in the jungles surrounding Santiago. Commanding a division that included the 1st U.S...

, El Pozo and San Juan Hill

Battle of San Juan Hill

The Battle of San Juan Hill , also known as the battle for the San Juan Heights, was a decisive battle of the Spanish-American War. The San Juan heights was a north-south running elevation about two kilometers east of Santiago de Cuba. The names San Juan Hill and Kettle Hill were names given by the...

, with Col. Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

, and was on Roosevelt's staff as his orderly. He returned to Arizona

Arizona

Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

 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

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...

, on July 1, 1905, by Roosevelt.
He died on September 20, 1946 and is buried in the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

in Section N.