Ralph Wilson Brodrick was born April 13, 1898 in Lafayette, Indiana to Dr. Frank Wilson Brodrick and Marion Elizabeth Brodrick, nee Morrison. He attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana and spent some time in the Navy before enrolling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduating from M.I.T. in 1920 he enrolled in the Business School of Columbia University in New York. He was reported missing on December 24, 1921 and after weeks of searching was not found. In early April of 1922 his body was found floating in New York Harbor, near the Statue of Liberty. At the time, the cause of death was unknown. His body was sent back to Chicago and buried at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois. His father and mother had divorced some time before Ralph’s death. His father remarried and continued his medical practice in Sterling, Illinois until his death in 1966. His mother, who was living in Boston at the time of his death, returned to Illinois and was living in Sterling in 1930, according to Census information.
[Sources: New York death certificate, U.S. Census Data, New York Times article from 12 April 1922, p. 12 viewed 20 October 2016 at ProQuest, Google Books for information about Dr. Brodrick]
[Sources: New York death certificate, U.S. Census Data, New York Times article from 12 April 1922, p. 12 viewed 20 October 2016 at ProQuest, Google Books for information about Dr. Brodrick]
Ralph Wilson Brodrick was born April 13, 1898 in Lafayette, Indiana to Dr. Frank Wilson Brodrick and Marion Elizabeth Brodrick, nee Morrison. He attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana and spent some time in the Navy before enrolling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduating from M.I.T. in 1920 he enrolled in the Business School of Columbia University in New York. He was reported missing on December 24, 1921 and after weeks of searching was not found. In early April of 1922 his body was found floating in New York Harbor, near the Statue of Liberty. At the time, the cause of death was unknown. His body was sent back to Chicago and buried at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois. His father and mother had divorced some time before Ralph’s death. His father remarried and continued his medical practice in Sterling, Illinois until his death in 1966. His mother, who was living in Boston at the time of his death, returned to Illinois and was living in Sterling in 1930, according to Census information.
[Sources: New York death certificate, U.S. Census Data, New York Times article from 12 April 1922, p. 12 viewed 20 October 2016 at ProQuest, Google Books for information about Dr. Brodrick]
[Sources: New York death certificate, U.S. Census Data, New York Times article from 12 April 1922, p. 12 viewed 20 October 2016 at ProQuest, Google Books for information about Dr. Brodrick]
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1900 United States Federal Census
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U.S., Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940
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Illinois, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current
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New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948
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