OBIT: Luke Hitchcock BROADWATER, 1949, native of Somerset County, PA

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LUKE H. BROADWATER

  Luke Hitchcock Broadwater of Wilmington, Del., died Sunday, March 20, in the 
Church Home and Hospital, Baltimore, Md.  Services were held Wednesday afternoon 
at the Eastburn Funeral Home, Avondale, Pa., and interment was made in Odd 
Fellows Cemetery, Berlin, Pa., on Friday, March 25.
  Mr. Broadwater was born in Somerset County near Glencoe, August 6, 1870.  He 
was the son of Ephraim and Lydia (Tressler) Broadwater and was the youngest of 
13 children, all of whom are deceased.  The brothers and sisters were: Charles, 
Thomas, John, William, George, Mrs. Sara Hartman, Mrs. Jane Cole, Mrs. Malinda 
Faidley, Mrs. Alice Cole, Mrs. Ella Kimmel, Mrs. Emma Troutman and Julia 
Broadwater.
  Mr. Broadwater was a retired president of the American Glycerin Company, a 
DuPont subsidiary.  He was connected with the DuPont Company in various 
capacities for 37 years.  After his retirement in 1929 he remained active in a 
number of personal enterprises including scientific farming on his large estate 
in Avondale.
  He received his education in the public schools of Somerset County, normal 
schools of Berlin and New Centerville, Pa., and the Normal Institute at 
Marshalltown, Ia.  After teaching for a time in his native state and in Iowa, he 
studied law in Findlay, O.  He was then employed by the Bradford Glycerin Co., 
but later formed his own organization.

Meyersdale Republican, March 31, 1949