The legal profession of Dodge County includes among its members James Francis Broach, who, during the short period of four years of practice, has gained an established position at the bar of Eastman. Mr. Broach is a native of Walton County, Georgia, where he was born July 22, 1879, and is a son of William H. and Sally (McElroy) Broach. His paternal grandparents were William and Samantha Broach, while on the maternal side he is the grandson of Rev. Frank M. and Fanny McElroy, the maternal grandfather having been a well known minister of the Methodist Episcopal faith.

William H. Broach was born in Walton County, Georgia, in 1849, was there reared on a farm, and when only sixteen years of age, in the closing year of the Civil war, entered the service of the Confederacy. When he returned to his home he completed his education and engaged in farming, a vocation in which he has been engaged throughout his life, although he has occupied himself with various other ventures and has a number of important interests at Monroe, the county seat of Walton County. He is still hale and hearty, active in body and alert in mind, at the age of sixty-five years. He was married in Walton County to Miss Ally McElroy, who was born at Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, and who died in 1881, at the age of thirty-five years, when her son, James Francis, was a babe of two years. There was one other child in the family, Miss Emma Broach, who is a member of the faculty of the public schools at Marietta, Georgia.

James Francis Broach attended the country schools of Walton County and passed his boyhood on the home farm. With an agricultural career in view, he was sent to the agricultural college at Dahlouega, where he was first lieutenant of cadets at the military academy, and was graduated from that institution at the age of twenty-four years. Farming did not appeal to him as a vocation and he turned his attention to teaching school, for three years being principal of the public school at Iron City, Georgia, and during this time became interested in the law, to which he devoted much private study. Later he entered the University of Georgia, as a student of the law department, being graduated therefrom with his degree June 22, 1911, and after his admission to the bar in the same year began practice at Eastman, which has since been his field of endeavor. Mr. Broach has built up an excellent general practice, and is the representative of a number of important interests of Eastman and the surrounding territory. He bears an excellent reputation in professional circles, holds membership in the Oconee Circuit Bar Association, and is devoted absolutely to his practice.

Fraternally, Mr. Broach is identified with the Masons and the Knights of Pythias, his religous connection is with the Christian Church, while his political support has always been given to the democratic party. He is unmarried.

Source: "A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians", Volume 4  By Lucian Lamar Knight - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer

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