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JOHN FLETCHER BROADHEAD
| John Fletcher Broadhead was born at Hudson, N.Y., September 15, 1830. He was educated in the common schools and later read law, and was admitted to practice September 15, 1857. The following spring he came to Kansas, locating at Mound City, where he engaged in his profession. He was elected a senator to the first state legislature, and served until his enlistment in the army; he was mustered in as captain of Company D, Third Kansas infantry, July 25, 1861, which became Company E on its consolidation with the Tenth Kansas, and was with his company until his regiment was mustered out, August 18, 1864. Upon his return to Mound City, he was elected to the house of representatives of 1865, and returned to the senate of 1869-70. March 9, 1871, he was appointed judge of the Sixth district, vice D. P. Lowe, who had been elected to Congress and held the office until November 17 of that year. He moved to Independence in 1875, where he died November 15, 1881. His first wife was Ellen A. Warner of Jamestown, N. Y. whom he married July 15, 1857, and who died July 11, 1861. December 11, 1863, he married Nettie W. Warner, a sister of his first wife. (Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 238) |