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The Stiles family in America genealogies of the Massachusetts family, descendants of Robert Stiles of Rowley, Mass. 1659-1891, and the Dover, N. H., family, descendants of William Stiles of Dover, N. H. 1702-1891. 774 Pages
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Henry was born on March 10, 1832 in New York City, New York, United States. His father, Samuel Stiles, head of a bank-note engraving company, was descended from John Stiles, one of four brothers who emigrated from Bedfordshire, England, to Windsor, Connecticut, in 1635. His mother was Charlotte Sophia (Reed), daughter of Abner Reed, to whom Samuel had been apprenticed to learn engraving.
Stiles studied for one year at the University of the City of New York and in 1849 entered Williams College as a sophomore. Ill health interrupted his studies and he did not graduate, but a quarter of a century later Williams granted him an honorary degree (1876).
In 1855 he graduated from the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, and also from the New York Ophthalmic Hospital.
After studies he practised medicine for a few months, first in New York City and then in Galena, Illinois. During 1856 he edited the Toledo Blade. For the next two years he was a partner in the firm of F. C. Brownell of Hartford and New York, publishers of educational books and the American Journal of Education.
In 1857, when ill health made it inadvisable for him to apply himself closely to business, he began tracing the genealogy of his family among the early records of Windsor, Connecticut.
The history of the ancient town soon engrossed him. From the records of town acts, tax lists, registers, old wills, petitions, letters, journals, newspapers, and church records, as well as from the memories of aged inhabitants, he collected a mass of historical and genealogical material which he published in a volume of a thousand pages, The History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (1859).
Largely made up of extracts from old documents, this History is not a readable narrative, but as a source book of genealogical and historical fact it is extremely valuable. A new edition, revised and greatly enlarged, The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (2 vols. ), appeared in 1891.
He was editor of the Historical Magazine from January to June 1866, and of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record from 1900 to 1902.
He carried on his professional career somewhat intermittently, practising medicine until 1863 and holding minor public medical offices from 1868 until 1877 when he took charge of the Dundee (Scotland) Homeopathic Dispensary and, for the first time, occupied himself solely with medical work.
His health failed after four years here and he returned to New York City, where he maintained a consulting practice which gave him considerable time for historical compilation. From 1888 until his death in 1909 he conducted a sanatorium at Hill View on Lake George, New York.
Henry Reed Stiles helped to organize the American Public Health Association in New York City, and founded and became an officer in the Society for Promoting the Welfare of the Insane, an organization that sought to protect the welfare of the mentally ill in New York City. He compiled and published A History of the City of Brooklyn (3 vols. , 1867 - 70), The Stiles Family in America: Genealogies of the Connecticut Family (1895), and The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut (2 vols. , 1904) based on the collections of Sherman W. Adams. He helped to organize the American Anthropological Society in 1869, and was one of the seven founders of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, serving as its president from 1869 until 1873.
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Stiles's interest in publishing the vital statistics, public documents, and personal papers of early New England and New York, begun thus casually, persisted throughout the remaining fifty years of his life and occupied fully half of his time.
He was a member or corresponding member of and served in various offices of the American Ethnological Association; Dorchester Historical and Antiquarian Society; New England Historic Genealogical Society; State Historical Society of Wisconsin; Arizona Historical Society; Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia; and the American Philological Society of New York. He was a life member of the Long Island Historical Society.
He was also a member of the American Anthropological Society (1869), of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, of the American Public Health Association in New York City, of the Society for Promoting the Welfare of the Insane. In 1865 he was an active member of the Faust Club in Brooklyn, New York.
His genial, kindly manner, enthusiasm, and industry enabled him to interest others in the preservation of valuable historical material and made him a successful organizer and officer of historical and genealogical societies.
In 1856 he married Sarah Woodward of Freeport, Illinois. They had two children, a daughter Elliot and a son Charles Butler.
