Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Michael Patrick BRODERICK ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, July 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Michael Patrick Broderick is another one of the substantial men of Omro, this county. He was born in Lanesboro, Mass., on August 3, 1856. His parents, James and Margaret (Bullman) Broderick, came from Ireland, where they were born in County Cork in 1841, and settled in Massachusetts, where they made their home until coming to this state in 1850. Michael P. was raising on the farm and received his education in the common schools of Winnebago county, and has followed the occupation of a farmer all of his life, with the exception of three years, when he was engaged in the meat market business at Antigo, Hi. He now has a well-improved arm of 119 acres in Poygan township, and keeps a fine herd of Jersey cows. He carries on general farming and does considerable dairying, in which he has been generally successful, and with his modern residence, commodious barns and outbuildings he has a pleasant, comfortable home, where he lives in practical retirement- his son, George F., having assumed active management of the farm. Mr. Broderick takes great interest in public affairs, and is ever ready to lend his aid and support to any enterprise for the betterment of his community. Politically he is in favor of the Democratic party, in which he is active, and at one time was a member of the County Board of Supervisors, and has frequently held local offices in his home town. Fraternally he is a member of the Equitable Fraternal Union, and religiously is affiliated with the Catholic church. On October 16, 1877, Mrs. Broderick was married to Miss Margaret Eleanor O'Reilly, daughter of Michael and Mary O'Reilly, residents and prosperous farmers of Poygan township. Mr. and Mrs. Broderick are the parents of six children, viz.: Mary Frances, who died March 8, 1898, aged 21 years; Joseph Michael, aged 29 years, lives in Peoria, Ill.; Leo James, makes his home in Chicago and is a traveling representative of the Iowa Central Railroad Company; Daisy Elizabeth, aged 23, lives at home, as does George Francis, who, at the age of 22 has charge of the farm, and Gordon Thomas, aged 15, lives at home and attends school. Transcribed from Lawson, Publius V. History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: its cities, towns, resources people. Chicago: C.F. Cooper and Company, 1908. v.2 p.884.