Person:Silas Broadwell (1)

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Int. # Name Birth Date Death Date Sec. Lot Tier Grave Burial Age Birth Place Undertaker
1058 Broadwell, Alice 10 Jun 1852 57 415 25 Jun 1852 1.5 Dayton,Ohio
649 Broadwell, Ann 6 Jan 1850 57 415 8 Jan 1850 1. Dayton,Ohio
2504 Broadwell, Anna W 25 Oct 1857 57 415 26 Oct 1857 0.6 Dayton,Ohio
202 Broadwell, Byram 10 Feb 1835 61 188 22 Apr 1846 27. Morristown, N.J.
142 Broadwell, Charles B 17 Oct 1845 61 188 18 Oct 1845 11. Dayton,Ohio
18748 Broadwell, Eliza 17 Mar 1895 61 188 19 Mar 1895 83.4 Harrisburg, PA
2426 Broadwell, Ella M 13 May 1857 57 415 15 May 1857 34. Massachusetts
15833 Broadwell, Emily J 8 Jan 1891 57 415 10 Jan 1891 70. Illinois
473 Broadwell, Ephraim 13 Feb 1849 74 98 14 Feb 1849 63. New Jersey
3467 Broadwell, Jane 13 Apr 1861 74 98 15 Apr 1861 80. New Jersey
488 Broadwell, John 13 Apr 1849 74 98 15 Apr 1849 33. Morristown, NJ.
13098 Broadwell, Josiah S 4 Jul 1886 57 415 6 Jul 1886 70.3 New Jersey
173 Broadwell, Lewis 6 Apr 1844 74 98 29 Jan 1846 1.4 Dayton,Ohio
30545 Broadwell, Lydia 21 Apr 1910 57 415 23 Apr 1910 71. New York
8163 Broadwell, Marcia S 17 Nov 1874 57 415 18 Nov 1874 53. New York
15357 Broadwell, Mary E 28 May 1890 74 98 29 May 1890 76.
133 Broadwell, Sarah 20 Aug 1834 74 98 11 Jul 1846 1.7 Dayton,Ohio
845 Broadwell, Sarah 12 Jan 1831 57 415 4 Mar 1851 43. New Jersey
844 Broadwell, Silas 2 Mar 1844 57 415 4 Mar 1851 63. New Jersey
5864 Broadwell, Simeon 12 Dec 1868 74 98 14 Dec 1868 56.3 Morristown, NJ.
6200 Broadwell, Simeon 57 415 13 Oct 1869
6341 Broadwell, Simeon J 17 Feb 1870 57 415 20 Feb 1870 56.5 Morristown, NJ.
1832 Broadwell, WT 28 Feb 1855 57 415 2 Mar 1855 11. Dayton, Ohio
132 Broadwell, William 10 Jul 1845 74 98 11 Jul 1845 35. New Jersey

Silas Broadwell, who was married in Morristown, New Jersey, to Sarah Byram, came to Dayton in 1816. He had an old red warehouse at the head of Wilkinson Street for storing produce until the river was high enough to float the boats to the Ohio. This warehouse was carried away by one of the floods. Mr. Broadwell owned considerable land west of Perry Street and north of Second, and probably lived near the corner of Bridge Street and Franklin Avenue. He had a large family of children, of whom all are dead except one daughter, Anna, who married George Josselyn, and is now living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

(page 61) First the river bank at the head of Jefferson street was built up eight feet and continued down the curve of the river west and south. The work was done by Silas Broadwell, whose remuneration consisted of some lots presented to him by D. C. Cooper, that early and efficient benefactor of Dayton. In 1814 the three rivers again burst their bounds under the impetus of spring rains and destroyed the levee which had been constructed with so much faith following the food of 1805. Small efforts at patching up the banks and strengthening the levees were made only to meet the same fate in 1828, in 1832, and again in 1847. The latter was the most destructive of all and has been described by M. E. Curwen in a short history published in 1850 in the Dayton Directory. At this time the property loss exceeded $5,000. His account closes with the optimistic statement that "A levee was soon after constructed which will completely secure the lower parts of town from any such catastrophe in the future." If the Daytonians put confidence in that fact it was rudely dispelled by what happened in 1866 when after three days of rainstorms the levee gave way in the eastern part of town, the water rushing through the streets, cutting of people from their homes, driving the dwellers in the lower districts to the roofs of their small houses and washing down the valley thousands and thousands of dollars worth of property and merchandise. The only record of rainfall that was made at the time was taken in Urbana, being 15.88 inches, the highest in forty-three years. All railway communication was cut of and the losses to public and private property were estimated at $250,000. The water at that time was four feet deep in the principal streets and one foot deep on the floor of the Beckel house at Third and Jefferson. After this flood efforts were made to increase the waterway of the river by adding a span to both the Main street and the Third street bridges.

Biography of Dayton
An Economic Interpretation of Local History
By
JOSEPH W. SHARTS

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Published By The Miami Valley Socialist, Dayton, Ohio
Copyright, 1922
By the Miami Valley Socialist,
Dayton, Ohio
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In the fall freshet of 1828, Broadwell’s old red warehouse, where so many flatboats had loaded for the New Orleans market, was swept away. As if the fates, to signalize the industrial revolution occurring in Dayton, were destroying every vestige of the former rule.

Broadwell Place – Silas Broadwell, old resident and marshall.

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