Henry Fairchild DeBardeleben (July 22, 1840 - December 6, 1910) was an American coal magnate and town founder from Alabama.
[1] After his father died when he was ten years old, DeBardeleben moved to Montgomery, Alabama, with his mother, where he worked in a grocery store.
[1][2][3] During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he served in the Prattville Dragoons of the Confederate States Army.
[3] When Pratt died in 1873, DeBardeleben inherited Red Mountain Iron and Coal Company.
[1] It merged with the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in 1891, when DeBardeleben was appointed as its Vice Chairman.