BRODERICK, James Lonsdale

BRODERICK, James Lonsdale. (Swaledale, England--Swaledale, England, 1886). Broderick came to Dubuque in 1876 as the administrator of Edward Montagu Stuart Granville Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, First Earl of Wharncliffe, First Viscount Carlton and Third Baron Wharncliffe, an English noble with an annual income in excess of one million dollars. Broderick visited British emigrants who had moved to this city and observed life in America.

Broderick thought it odd that horses were tied and left unguarded while their owners went to market. He also found strange the fact that mine shafts were left carelessly open allowing cattle and horses to stumble into them. Broderick found the hog slaughtering plant of William A. RYAN an interesting place because of its size, but definitely not a place he ever wanted to revisit. Broderick reported that a ritual of the upper class on New Year's called for groups of from three to six gentlemen to call upon groups of three to six ladies and exchange cards on which they had written their names and "Happy New Year."

Broderick rejected Dubuque's religious life and believed the people he met ate too much. He marveled at the crowds caused by the appearance of Tom Thumb and the availability of three-dollar farmland. Broderick returned to England carrying many messages for the relatives of those he had met.