Oscar Broady

Oscar Broady (May 28, 1832 – March 13, 1922) was a petty officer in the Swedish navy who emigrated to the United States.

Broady was born in Uppsala, the son of a niterworker, went to school in Stockholm, and began clerking in a store at the age of 13.

[1][2] When the American Civil War began, the students at Madison University raised a volunteer company, and offered it to United States service.

In Sweden he became the first president of the Swedish Baptist Bethel Seminary, a predecessor of the Stockholm School of Theology,[5] a position he held until 1906.

Broady held a number of positions of trust in the Swedish Baptist movement, and was an avid temperance advocate.