Nelson P. Bromley Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1156-1157 in "History of Dakota 
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				NELSON P. BROMLEY. 

	Nelson P. Bromley is the nestor of the Redfield bar, having been 
engaged in active practice there since 1882. He now has offices in the 
Law building and is accorded a large and distinctively representative 
clientage. Vermont claims him as a native son. He was born in Danby, 
Rutland county, on the 21st of April, 1855, his parents being Hiram and 
Eliza (Paddock) Bromley. The father followed farming in the Green 
Mountain state, but both he and his wife are now deceased, their 
remains being interred at Dorset, Bennington county, Vermont. The 
paternal grandfather, Captain Joshua Bromley, served in the 
Revolutionary war in defense of the colonies and afterward aided in 
organizing the state government. The ancestors of the Bromley family, 
coming from England, aided in establishing the second colony of New 
England. 

	Nelson P. Bromley pursued his education in the Fort Edward 
Collegiate Institute of Washington county, New York, and won his degree 
at Union College. He completed the classical course and the law course 
in 1876, thereby receiving the B. A. and LL. B. degrees. He then 
removed to Kasson, Dodge county, Minnesota, where he practiced until he 
came to Redfield. For a third of a century he has followed his 
profession in Spink county and his ability has won for him a liberal 
and well deserved clientage. He conducts his law business in a most 
capable manner and has ever recognized the fact that thorough 
preparation of cases is one of the strongest elements of success. He is 
also interested in farming, owning four farm properties which total 
fourteen hundred acres. He is likewise a director of the German 
American National Bank and is financially connected with other 
corporations. He has improved several farms in addition to those which 
he now owns and he has at different times been identified with stock-
raising. 

	In February, 1878, at Ripon, Wisconsin, Mr. Bromley was married 
to Miss Addie Dodge, a daughter of C. F. and Phebe Dodge. Her father 
was the first carriage manufacturer of Ripon, where both he and his 
wife remained until called to their final rest. Mr. and Mrs. Bromley 
became parents of a son, George, now a resident of Chicago. The wife 
and mother passed away in January, 1912, at the age of fifty-two years 
and was laid to rest in Redfield, her death being deeply regretted by 
an extensive circle of warm friends as well as by her immediate family. 

	Upon arriving in Redfield Mr. Bromley found a small town 
containing but few buildings and with the development and growth of the 
city he has since been prominently identified. In politics he is a 
republican and has served his district in the state legislature. He was 
the first states attorney for Spink county and has served twice in that 
capacity, and has been connected with the municipal government, as he 
has been on the city council and has been mayor. In Masonic circles he 
is well known, holding membership in lodge, chapter and commandery and 
exemplifying in his life the teachings and tenets of the order. His 
life has been one of intense and well directed activity, for at the 
early age of ten years he started out to make his own way in the world. 
He is a man of nervous energy and of physical endurance and idleness 
and indolence have ever been utterly foreign to his nature. Through his 
intelligently directed labors in the field of his profession and his 
wise investments he has been one of the largest taxpayers of his 
county. Moreover, he has proven a valuable and important factor in 
public affairs, having assisted in organizing city, county and state 
and at all times furthering movements along lines leading to the 
present prosperity and advanced condition of South Dakota.