Henry Broderick (realtor)

[1] Broderick was born and raised in Minneapolis, where he attended the public schools until the financial panic of 1893 caused him to drop out at age 13.

[1] Following a brief stint composing advertisements for agency Lord and Thomas in Chicago, he married Mary Barclay of St. Louis, Missouri October 4, 1901; the couple moved to Seattle before the end of the year.

[1] From the outset of his career, Broderick, a Roman Catholic, refused to participate in real estate covenants against Jews.

He adopted this policy as early as his time at John Davis and Company: around 1904 he refused to have the firm manage a large apartment complex that excluded Jews.

Starting with the Broadway High School group who graduated in 1908, we gathered a collection of youngsters whose lives became intertwined with our own.

We called them "near-sons" and "near-daughters"…[3] Broderick was a member (1951–1975) of the Seattle University board of regents, and a mentor to Father A.

Every year from 1932 to the end of his life, he sent out a booklet about local history at Christmas, drawing both on research and his own personal memories (though also, doubtless, passing along some apocryphal stories).