Louis Henry BRODERSON

1915 - DECEASED

• Name	Louis Henry BRODERSON
  Birth	29 Aug 1915	Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	DECEASED
  Person ID	I1434	HHDHA
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2008

  
  

  Father	Louis Hansen BRODERSON,   b. 7 Feb 1864, Slesvig, Denmark d. 5 Feb 1950, Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky, USA (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Patty Neely HENDRICKS,   b. 26 Jan 1877, , Simpson, Kentucky, USA d. 4 May 1950, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	8 Jun 1910	Simpson Co., Kentucky, USA
  Family ID	F116	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy Mae ROBERTSON
  Family ID	F758	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

• Notes

  HHFO: D0208100304 1963: 345 DW record number: 26508 Although he was given his father's first name, Louis Henry was known by his middle name throughout his life. When he was four he helped his father retrieve a wrench that had fallen into a tank by allowing his father to tie a rope around his waist and lower him into it. That same year he was playing on some large wooden spools of wire when one rolled over his leg and broke it. His father distrusted doctors but took Henry to town to have his leg set. He attended Paradise School and contracted measles there along with the rest of the family. By the age of nine Henry was helping his father at the mill, which he continued to do throughout his youth. He was interested in electrical things and built his own crystal radio set. Along with his brother Jim he began attending the Methodist church, the religion he formally joined in 1930 when he was 15. The next summer he saved his younger sister Kitty from drowning in the family swimming hole on Drakes Creek. At the mill Henry ran the flour and meal packers, made deliveries to the grocery stores, and kept the floor swept when the packing was done. After high school he attended Penn State University for two years before marrying in 1939. "He operated the Simpson County Mills with his brother Jim and Sonny before World War II, during which he served as a radar operator on various ships in the Navy." After the war he and his brothers operated the new Simpson County Mills grain elevator, and in 1956 he started a grain bin construction company which led to the Broderson Construction Company in 1957. He served as President of the Franklin Rotary Club, the Franklin Chamber of Commerce, and was elected mayor of Franklin for two terms (1961-1969). He was then elected the President of the Kentucky Municipal League and was honored with its Oustanding Public Service award. In later years he entered a real estate career and became a developer of both residential and business real estate. --Summarized from THE HONEST MILLER OF SIMPSON COUNTY, by his son A. B. Broderson. HHFO: D0102060712-S1F0304 DW record number: 26508