Edwin Broad

20 November 1837 — 5 November 1901

Edwin Broad was born on 20 November 1837 in Briston, Norfolk, England, and moved to Utah Territory in the 1850s. He married Elizabeth Broad. He worked as a carpenter and also had a sawmill in Tooele, Utah Territory, which burned to the ground in 1880. He then moved the mill to Skull Valley, Utah Territory. Broad died on 5 November 1901 and was buried in Tooele.[1]

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Edwin Broad,” in History of Tooele County (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Tooele County, 1961), 429; “Fire-Census,” Deseret News, 7 July 1880, 361; “Edwin Broad,” 1880 U.S. Census, 13A.