Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Brodrick, Harry M. 1869 - living in 1917 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com July 23, 2005, 1:02 pm Author: B. F. Bowen HARRY M. BRODRICK. Harry M. Brodrick, editor of the Advocate-Democrat at Marysville and postmaster of that city, is a native of the old Hoosier state, but has been a resident of Kansas practically all the time since he was ten years of age. He was born in the city of Goshen, Indiana, December 31, 1869, son of John H. Brodrick and wife, who came to Kansas in 1879 and settled at Osborne, where, in 1881, he then being but twelve years of age, Harry M. Brodrick entered upon his journalistic career, working for the Osborne Daily News. Upon completing the course in the public schools at Osborne, Harry M. Brodrick continued working for the Daily News awhile and then went to Chicago, where he took a course in the Metropolitan Business College, upon completing which he returned to Osborne and began working there as a drug clerk, presently transferring his services to a bank in that city, with which institution he was engaged for a year as a clerk. He then, in 1888, went to Marceline, Missouri, where his brother-in-law, S. E. Ruede, had started a newspaper, and began working on that newspaper, in 1890 buying a half interest in the same and in that same year becoming the sole owner of the paper. In 1893 Mr. Brodrick sold his newspaper and went to Alton, Kansas, becoming connected with the Alton City Bank at that place and served as cashier of that bank until 1895, when he returned to Marceline and bought his old printing plant there, which he sold a year later and then returned to his native state, accepting there a position as business manager of the Daily Review at Elkhart. In 1898 he resigned that position to become the assistant manager and general credit man for the National Paper and Supply Company at Elkhart, but presently, on account of the failing health of his wife, resigned that position and returned to Kansas, locating at Marysville, where he bought a half interest, with his brother-in-law, S. E. Ruede, in the Advocate-Democrat and resumed his old calling at the "tripod." Eighteen months later, Mr. Brodrick bought Mr. Ruede's interest in the paper and has since been the owner and editor of the same, giving his son, Lynn Brodrick, a partnership in the business in February, 1913. On March 1, 1914, Harry M. Brodrick received his commission as postmaster at Marysville and has since been serving in that important public capacity. On December 25, 1890, while living at Alton, this state, Harry M. Brodrick was united in marriage to Emma L. Rosegrant, a daughter of William L. and Anna (Cheney) Rosegrant, natives of Ohio, who came to Kansas in 1879 and located at Alton, where Mr. Rosegrant was engaged in the banking business until 1911. Mrs. Brodrick's schooling was completed in the Central Female College at Lexington, Missouri, from which institution she was graduated with the class of 1889. To Mr. and Mrs. Brodrick two sons have been born, Lynn, a partner with his father in the publication of the Advocate-Democrat and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume, and Van C., who was born at Marceline, Missouri, December 14, 1895, and who is a graduate of the Marysville high school. Mr. Brodrick is a Democrat and the columns of his paper ever have reflected the earnestness of his faith in the principles of that party, the Advocate-Democrat long having been regarded as one of the most influential party papers in this part of the state. In his fraternal affiliations he is connected with the Masonic fraternity and with the Knights of Pythias. Additional Comments: Extracted from: History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions by Emma E. Forter Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/marshall/bios/brodrick71bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 4.3 Kb