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From: Ida & Merle King <>
Subject: My interesting obit
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 08:44:11 -0700


>From the NY Times

FORETOLD HIS OWN DEATH(Sep 22 1899)

Dr. L.D. Broughton, an Astrologer, Dies the Day He Said He Would.

Dr. Luke D Broughton, homeopathic physician and astrologer, and for many
years President of the Astrological Society of America, died on Friday
at his residence at 68 South Washington Square. He was born Apr 20 1828
in Leeds, Yorkshire England and his father and ancestors were all
astrologers. He came to this country when young and settled in
Philadelphia, where he studied medicine and took his degree.
While he did not practice astrology as a profession he combined
astrology with medicine, cast his own horoscope, and the horoscope of
his wife (Sarah Butterfield) and children and prominent men. He died on
the day he said he would. He predicted that his eldest son would not
survive his twenty ninth year, which happened, and it was on his advice
that the young man did not marry.
His son John said yesterday that his father had cast the horoscopes of
both Grover Cleveland and President McKinley and predicted the election
first of the one then of the other. Many public men, he continued,
consulted his father as to whether they should accept nominations or
undertake great enterprises and were guided by his advice. He also said
that his father was a firm believer in fate, and that the position of
the planets and sun at the hour of a person's birth settled his destiny
so that nothing could change it.
Dr Broughton accumulated a library of 14,000 volumes of general reading
and had 300 volumes on astrology, many of which were very old and rare,
When he came to New York and began lecturing on astrology he encountered
great opposition from those who did not believe in that science. He
leaves three sons and one daughter. (Matthew, Mark, James, Luke, John,
and Rachael) The funeral services will be held at the house this
evening.


If you descend from this family Please help me fill in some blanks. Is
the Astrological Society of America still in existance? Do they have an
Archives?
later
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Ida IAK Alberta Canada

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