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CHARLES G. BROMAN. The subject of this sketch is a splendid example of that enterprising class of citizens, the Swedish Americans, by whom a large part of Kearney county is settled and whose industry and thrift have made it one of the best counties in central or southwestern Nebraska. He was born in 1851 and is the fourth of a family of eight children born to Andrew G. and Christina (Dahlstrom) Broman, natives of Sweden. His father was born in 1814, and died in 1884; his mother was born in 1818, and is still living; these parents were married in 1840 and came to the United States in 1877. Their children were Alfred, Oscar, Mary, Charles G., August, Frank, Tilda and one that died in infancy.

The fourth of these and the subject of this sketch was reared in his native country to the age of twenty, coming thence in 1871 to America, stopping first in Henry county, Ill., and afterwards in Henderson county, Iowa, and finally movng in 1876 to Nebraska and settling in Kearney county, where he has since resided. He took a homestead on locating in the county, and he has been steadily engaged in farming since. He had but little means with which to begin, but he had an abundance of energy and believed in the future of the country, and he worked away from year to year, gradually accumulating property and building up his place, until now he is one of the best farmers in the community where he resides, and has one of the best improved and most desirable places.

Mr. Broman has been twice married and is for a second time a widower. He is the father of five children, one by his first marriage and four by his last. He is a consistent member of the Lutheran church, as were also his parents and both his wives.