Greenbury Ridgely Henry (September 21, 1828 May 14, 1885) was a founding member of Phi Alpha Literary Society.
Henry was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He attended Jubilee College from 1841 to 1842, and Illinois College from 1844 to 1847. While attending Illinois College, Phi Alpha Literary Society was founded in his dorm room on September 30, 1845. He then studied medicine at the University of Louisville and graduated in 1849. Soon after the Civil War began he was offered a surgeon's commission in the Union Army but declined it. He served as a member of the school board in Burlington, Iowa as well as a trustee of the Insane Hospital at Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
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