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Henry Broderick (October 12, 1880–October 7, 1975) was a Seattle, Washington realtor, civic leader, memoirist, and Seattle historian. He arrived in Seattle in 1901 and, in 1908, founded the real estate firm that he would turn into the city's largest.〔Paula Becker, (Broderick, Henry (1880-1975) ), HistoryLink, 2006-04-11. Accessed online 2009-07-04.〕 ==Life and achievements== Broderick was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he attended the public schools until the financial panic of 1893 caused him to drop out at age 13. From that time, he worked to help support his family, but continued to study informally on his own (including Greek classics). He would later describe himself as "a graduate of the Minneapolis Public Library".〔 After a brief stint composing advertisements for agency Lord and Thomas in Chicago, he married Mary Barclay of St. Louis, Missouri October 4, 1901; the couple moved to Seattle before the end of the year. Broderick went to work for a prominent local real estate firm, John Davis & Company. Over the next few years he worked his way up from an entry-level job posting For Sale signs to a management role. He first became a public figure in his role at Davis acquiring property for the Union Pacific Railroad.〔 He left Davis's employ in 1908 to found his own real estate firm, Henry Broderick, Inc. He remained president of the company until 1965 and then served as its chairman until 1969, when the firm was sold to Coldwell Banker. Henry Broderick, Inc. became the city's largest real estate firm and one of its largest property management firms. Its role in property management proved particularly crucial to carry it successfully through the Great Depression.〔 From the outset of his career, Broderick, a Roman Catholic, refused to participate in real estate covenants against Jews. He adopted this policy as early as his time at John Davis and Company: around 1904 he refused to have the firm manage a large apartment complex that excluded Jews. As a result, his own firm attracted many Jewish clients.〔 In 1909, Broderick was youngest of 49 trustees of Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (A-Y-P), an unofficial world's fair. Years later, in 1962, as the only surviving A-Y-P trustee, he served as a trustee Seattle's Century 21 Exposition and, toward the end of his life as an honorary trustee of Spokane, Washington's Expo '74 world's fair.〔 Although Broderick was himself the youngest of 10 children born to Irish immigrants, he and his wife Mary never had any children of their own. Mary Broderick died in 1958.〔 The Brodericks were patrons to many younger people, and their 1906 home in the Denny-Blaine neighborhood was often the scene of parties at which "High school and university students, as well as personnel of the armed forces, have enjoyed classical music or boogie-woogie in the Brodericks' music room, walked alone, in pairs, or groups over the landscaped grounds…"〔Edgar Stewart, ''Washington: Northwest Frontier'', quoted by Becker.〕 Broderick wrote in one of his memoirs:
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