When John and his family first came here, they settled on what is now 12th Street, about one mile west of Washington Blvd. His land was east of the railroad tracks. He planted an orchard, and it is said he had the first apricots many of the early settlers had tasted. His daughter Eliza married a man by the name of Melling. They separated and they didn't have any children. She owned a home a couple of blocks west of where her parents lived. My grandparents bought her home. She died in October of 1890. Her home was directly across from the Deseret Coal Yard and west of the tracks that run into the Depot. Annie married Hans Madsen. They lived about one half mile north of Fathers. They called all that settlement around there Brooms Bench. They built a two-room school house west of the tracks, about (where) the Government Supply Depot entrance is. A Miss Irwin was the first teacher. She had 95 pupils enroll. She taught for many years in Ogden City Schools. That school was only used as a place of learning for a few years but is still in use as a home. Part of my brother's home is that building; it has been added to. Annie Broom's daughter was mom's first Primary President and Hans Madsen, her husband was in her first Bishopric. John Broom struck it rich on a gold mine. He bought a piece of land on 25th and Washington from Jonathan Browning who ran a gunsmith shop there. Jonathan made guns here from old scrap iron he picked up from a burned wagon train. The Brooms moved into town, but the Madsens lived there for some time later. Their son Oscar Madsen built a home back and west of his family and died there in 1918 during the flu epidemic. Sarah Jane married George F. Brown; he died in 1915 at Los Angeles. They had 9 children. Mother remembers some of the boys and one little girl who burned to death while playing with some children in a vacant lot. Mom thinks she was the only daughter they had. She remembers John C. Brown, Oria F., Eliot B. and George, their sons. Sarah Jane died at the age of 85; it must have been around 1935 or 6. John Broom was born March 22, 1823. He died June 29, 1893, at the age of 76. His wife, Hester Dunsdon Broom, was born September 16, 1829, and died June 13, 1896. The copy of this letter and brief history of John Broom was given to Marriott-Slatervile City by Marjorie Slater Parkinson. It had been in the possession of her mother, Sarah Ann Tracy Slater, who was a granddaughter of Sarah Ann Dunsdon, sister to Hester Dunsdon Broom. 214