BIOGRAPHIES:  Peter BROATCH, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Peter Broatch (deceased) was born near Gretna Green, Dumfrieshire,
Scotland, about the year 1815, and died in Pepin, August, 1874.  He was
a son of Andrew and Hannah (Davison) Broatch.  In youth he received a
fair education, and worked on a farm until his marriage, when he became
manager of the same.  In 1856 he immigrated with his family to America
and settled in Pepin township, where he purchased a farm and resided
until his death.  He was married in 1840 to Mary Little, who died here
October 17, 1873.  Mr. and Mrs. Broatch were blessed with ten children,
four of whom died in infancy.  The others are:  John, living on a farm
near the old homestead, married Martha Johnston (who died July 18,
1889, leaving eight children: Margaret J. (Mrs. M. Varnum), Mary E.,
Hannah, Martha, Jessie M., Catherine B., Elizabeth A. and John J.);
Hannah, now Mrs. F. D. Wartinbee, of La Crosse, Wis., David W., who now
owns a part of the old homestead, and is engaged in farming and the
manufacture of rafting pins, supplying a lumbering firm at Stillwater,
Minn.; Andrew, who married Elizabeth J. Reid, who bore him two
children, James P. and Andrew Ena (lived on a portion of the old
homestead until his death January 24, 1883); Mary J., living in Pepin
township, and Margaret A., who died in January 1865.  Peter Broatch was
a quiet, industrious man, who commanded the respect of all who knew
him.  In politics he was a free-trade republican, and in religion a
Presbyterian.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 710.


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