Biography of Frank Broughton, M.D., pages 638/639/640.  History of DeKalb 
County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.

Frank Broughton, M. D.

	It is not always easy to discover and define the hidden forces that 
move a life of ceaseless activity and large professional success.  Little 
more can be done than to note their manifestation in the career of the 
individual under consideration.  In view of this fact of life of the 
distinguished physician and public-spirited man of affairs whose name 
appears above affords a striking example of well-defined purpose with the 
ability to make that purpose subserve not only his own ends but the good of 
his fellow men as well.  He has long held distinctive prestige in a calling, 
which requires for its basis sound mentality and intellectual discipline of 
a high order, supplemented by the rigid professional training and thorough 
mastery of technical knowledge with the skill to apply the same, without 
which one cannot hope to rise above mediocrity in ministering to human 
ills.  In his chosen field of endeavor Doctor Broughton has achieved 
success such as few attain, and his present eminent standing among the 
leading medical men of DeKalb county is duly recognized and appreciated.
	Frank Broughton, M. D., of Waterloo, DeKalb county, Indiana, was 
born in Noble county, this state, on July 30, 1860, and is the son of 
William and Rebecca (Casper) Broughton. William Broughton was a native of 
Ohio and came to this state in an early day, while his wife was a relative 
of the Caspers, so well known among the early pioneers of DeKalb county.  
Frank Broughton spent the first sixteen years of his life on the home farm 
in Noble county, receiving his education in the district schools of his 
home neighborhood.  In 1879 and 1880 he was a student in the Methodist 
Episcopal College in Fort Wayne, and then, having determined to make the 
practice of medicine his life work, he matriculated in Rush Medical 
College, of Chicago, where he was graduated in 1884. During the following 
three years he was engaged in the practice of his profession at Avilla, 
Noble county, Indiana, at the end of that period coming to Waterloo, where 
he as been continuously engaged in the practice since. He is well qualified 
by nature and training for the calling which he follows, and his efforts 
have met with very gratifying success in the community.  His office is 
well equipped with all modern apparatus for the successful handling of 
difficult cases, including an X-ray static machine and other medical 
fixtures, while he has a well selected professional library which enables 
him to keep in touch with the most advanced thought relative to the healing 
art.  Doctor Broughton has for several years been surgeon for the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, and for nine years was local United 
States pension examiner.  Aside from his profession, he has taken a 
commendable interest in the affairs of the community and served as a 
member of the school board, being president of that body a part of the 
time.  He is also local examiner for about ten life insurance companies. 
In addition to his creditable career in one of the most useful and exacting 
of professions, the Doctor has also proven and honorable member of the body 
politic, rising in the confidence and esteem of the public, and in every 
relation of life he has never fallen below the dignity of true manhood nor 
in any way resorted to methods and wiles that invite criticism or censure.  
He is essentially a man among men, and as a citizen he easily ranks with 
the most influential of his community.  His course has been above suspicion, 
and those favored with an intimate acquaintance with him are profuse in 
their praise of his manly virtues and upright character. 
	Politically, Doctor Broughton is a Republican, in the success of 
which party he has been actively interested.  Fraternally, he is a member 
of the Free and Accepted Masons and the Knights of Pythias.
	In 1884 Doctor Broughton married Lola M. Kimsey, a daughter of John 
M. and Harriett E. (Lent) Kimsey.  Harriett E. Lent was born at Ligonier, 
Indiana, and is a daughter of Reuben J. Lent, a pioneer of DeKalb county, 
and at one time one of its best known citizens.  A biographical sketch of 
John M. Kimsey appears elsewhere in this work.  Lola M. Kimsey was born in 
Angola, Indiana, and when but three years of age her family moved to 
Waterloo, where she was reared and lived until her marriage in 1884. She 
attended the public schools and was also a student in the Methodist College 
at Fort Wayne, where she formed the acquaintance of Dr. Broughton.  After 
leaving the college she was employed in the Waterloo postoffice for about 
five years.  She is a woman of marked intellectual attainments and 
excellent social qualities, but her interest is centered in her home, 
being thoroughly domestic in her tastes and desires.   Doctor Broughton 
and wife have one son, Jay W., who first saw the light of day on March 15, 
1885.  He attended the public schools at Toledo, and is now connected with 
the dining car service of the Union Pacific Railway from Ogden, Utah, to 
Omaha, occasionally requiring him to go to Pacific coast.

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