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HARRY WILSON BROADBENT
Vol. 3, p. 1157-1158

Since 1907 located at Sulphur, where he has built up a good civil
and criminal practice as a lawyer, Mr. Broadbent has had a very
active career since leaving his father's Kansas farm a little more
than a quarter of a century ago. He has been a lawyer for the past
fifteen years but the management of business affairs has always gone
hand in hand with his practice.

Born in Henry County, Illinois, September 30, 1869, Mr. Broadbent
comes of sturdy English ancestors. His grandfather, William
Broadbent, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1822, and brought his
family to America about 1850, locating in Henry County, Illinois,
where he continued his career as a farmer until his retirement. He
died at advanced age in 1908. The maternal grandfather of Mr.
Broadbent was John KEMPLAY, who was born in Leavening, Yorkshire,
England, in 1822 and brought his family to America about 1853. His
first location was in the young and growing City of Chicago, where he
acquired a tract of about forty acres of land occupying the site now
covered by the Chicago stockyards. Naturally enough he did not
realize the great future value of that location, and sold out and
moved to Henry County, Illinois, where he continued as a farmer and
died there in 1889.

Mr. Broadment's parents were Wilson and Mary (KEMPLAY) Broadbent.
His father was born in England in 1847 and was about three years of
age when brought to this country and grew up in Henry county,
Illinois, where he married. In 1871, when his son Harry W. was two
years of age, he removed to Whiteside County, Illinois, and in 1879
came further west and established his home on a farm in Nemaha
County, Kansas, where he still resides. His entire active career has
been spent as a farmer and stock raiser. He has frequently held
township offices and is a loyal democrat, a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and of the Modern Woodmen of America. Their children
are: Harry W.' Rosa S., wife of Henry A. FURST, in the abstract
business at Duncan, Oklahoma; Charles E., assistant postmaster at
Duncan; and Alice El, wife of Robert E. KEMPIN, a farmer in Nemaha
County, Kansas.

Harry W. Broadbent attended the public schools of Whiteside County
and from the age of ten the schools of Nemaha County, Kansas. His
first nineteen years were spent on his father's farm. On leaving home
he secured a position with the Swift Packing Company in Kansas City,
remaining there three years, and was then with the Badger Lumber
Company of Kansas City until 1900. While thus employed he determined
to prepare himself for a professional career, and in addition to his
regular employment during the day he spent several hours nearly every
night attending a night school, the Kansas City School of Law, from
which he earned his degree LL. B. in 1900. Then for about three years
he continued to live in Kansas City and practiced law, after which he
resumed the lumber business both in that city and in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, until 1907.

Mr. Broadbent has lived at Sulphur, Oklahoma, since October, 1907.
His offices are in the old Weems Boilding [sic] on Muskogee Avenue.
While living in Kansas he served as a member of the State Legislature
in 1903-04. In politics he is a democrat, is a member of the County
Bar Association, the Sulphur Commercial Club, and is affiliated with
Sulphur Camp No. 10403, of the Modern Woodmen of America, is past
master of Sulphur Lodge No. 144, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, a
member of Wyandotte Chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, and is a
fourteen degree Scottish Rite Mason in the Kansas City Consistory.

In Richmond, Virginia, in 1893, Mr. Broadbent married Miss Agnes B.
REDD. Her father, now deceased, was J. H. Redd, a farmer. Their three
children are Wilson Redd, Howard Charles, both in the public schools
and Harry Hartwell.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lois L. Coffelt, November 6, 1998.