Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1898 — DEATH OF COL. BROADHEAD. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF COL. BROADHEAD.

Prominent Resident of St. Louis Passes Awny —Sketch of His Career. St. Louis. Aug. B.—Col. James O. Broadhead, minister to Switzerland under Cleveland, is dead as the result of a disease of which he has been wasting away for some time. He leaves a widow and three children. [.Col. Broadhead, who washorn In Virginia. <*a.me to this state when 16 years of age. Soon after becoming of age he engaged In the practice of law. At the breaking out of the civil war he did much to preserve Missouri to the union, and In the summer of 1861 he was appointed provost marshal of this department. In 1875 he became a member of the law firm of Broadhead, Slayback & Haeussler, one of his amoclates being Col. Slayback. whose tragic death In 1882 caused sueh a sensation In thia city. Col. Broadhead was elected to congress In 1882. At the beginning of President Cleveland's second term Mr. Broadhead was appointed United States minister to Switzerland. Mr Broadhead was one of the leaders of the democratic party of the county for a number of years and at the national democratic convention in 1876 he received a good many votes for president, including the 16 votes of Missouri.)