Alfred Adam Broadie

BROADIE

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Date: 12/28/2007 at 19:14:50

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Source: Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa : leaders in business, politics and the professions : together with an original and authentic history of the state by B F Gue, 1899, pages 130-131. Found on Heritage Quest.

Broadie, Alfred Adam, the leading druggist of Waverly, is well known by many people throughout Iowa, having been president of the State Pharmaceutical Association, and twice the state delegate to the National Pharmaceutical Convention. He is of Scotch-Irish descent. His grandfather, James Broadie, was born in Scotland, where he married Helen Gounlock, and some years afterward they sailed for America. They were eight weeks in crossing the ocean, and their two children died on the voyage. They located in Canada, where James Broadie soon died, but his wife lived to be over ninety years old. James Steene, Mr. Broadie's grandfather on his mother side, was born in Belfast Ireland, and came to Canada about 1800, where he met and married Miss Mary Ann Franklin, who was also born in Belfast, her father being a paymaster in the English army. Mr. Broadie's father was Adam Broadie, who was born in Chatham, Canada East, now the Province of Quebec, in 1824. He was married in 1855 to Mrs. Jane Shepard, a native of the same place, who was born in 1832. For fifty years he followed the trade of a blacksmith and plowmaker. Moving to Illinois, in 1850, he helped build the old Chicago and Galena railroad, the first line west of Chicago. Five years later he settled in Bremer County, Iowa, where he started the first blacksmith shop in Leroy township, moving to Waverly in 1865, where he has since remained and is in very comfortable circumstances Mrs. Adam Broadie died May 8, 1900.

A. A. Broadie was born May 6, 1856, about twenty miles east of Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa, and was the fourth white child born in Leroy township. At this time the Indians, wild deer and rattlesnakes were quite numerous in this section. The first school he attended was held in a little log school house, with a puncheon floor and a "shake" roof, constructed without the use of a single nail. The building had only two windows, half the usual size, with panes of eight by ten glass. The seats consisted of one long rough slab supported by wooden pegs, while a long shelf, resting on pins driven into the wall, served for desks. After finishing the district school, he attended the Waverly grammar and high school for three years.

Mr. Broadie learned very young to work, for at the age of seven years he was able to earn fifty cents a day herding sheep. He worked on a farm until he was eighteen years old and then taught district school for four terms. In 1877 he was apprenticed to Dr. O. Burbank in the drug business at Waverly, and in 1880 became a registed pharmacist. He did business for himself three years in Madison, Lake County, South Dakota, and returning to Waverly in 1883, he purchased the store where he had received his training. In 1893 his brother, H. H. Broadie, a graduate of the Chicago College of Pharmacy, became a partner in the business, and they still work together under the firm name of A. A. Broadie & Brother. Mr. Broadie has always been prominent in every public enterprise of the town, and has done much to aid in the progress of Waverly. He was one of the promoters of the Waverly Short Line Railroad Company, and for ten years its director and secretary. He is now a director of the German-American Loan & Trust Company's Bank of Waverly, and president of the Waverly Industrial Association.

Mr Broadie has always belonged to the republican party, which he was born the same year that he was, in 1856. He has never been a candidate for any office. He belongs to the Masonic order, and has been a member of the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association since 1883, serving as its president in 1891-1892, and is now chairman of its executive committee.

Mr. Broadie was married June 8, 1881, to Miss Elveline Almeda Shepard of Waverly, who died November 28, 1882, leaving an infant son, LeRoy Wesley, who was born October 28, 1882. Mr. Broadie was married to Miss Minnie B. Perry, of Chicago, May 6, 1886. They have two children: Perry Henderson, born July 28, 1887, and George Alfred, born April 20, 1889.

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