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Bromley, Peter

Peter B. Bromley is a member of the firm of Davis & Bromley of Pontiac, organized in 1893. He was born in Oakland township, Oakland county, in 1863, and is the son of Andrew J. and Sarah P. (Brewster) Bromley. Andrew J. Bromley was also a native of Oakland township, born there in 1840 and passing away at the early age of twenty-five years. He was a son of Rosewell Bromley, a Vermonter, born in Rutland county, in 1803, who died in Oakland county in 1890, after having passed his life here from the age of twenty-two years. He married Sybil Pinckney, and they were the parents of a goodly family. He was one of the prominent men of this section, serving the county in many public offices during his lifetime. Peter B. Bromley is one of the two children born to his parents, Andrew J. and Sarah Bromley; his one brother is a farmer in St. Clair county, Michigan. After the death of his father his mother married Tunis Rolison and the family moved from the old home to Pontiac when Mr. Bromley was a lad of ten years. He attended the Pontiac high school and after graduating in the teacher's course began teaching, and with his work carried on a course of law reading in 1881. In August, 1884, he was admitted to the bar, and in the years that have elapsed he has won a high degree of prominence in his profession. He served six years as court commissioner of Oakland county—two terms as city clerk of Pontiac and was elected to the office of city attorney by the city council for a term of three years and is now filling that office. Until 1893 he continued in independent practice, but since that time he has been associated with D. L. Davis, the well known attorney of Oakland county. Mr. Bromley married Miss Sarah Ditmas, of Brooklyn, New York. and they have two sons, Bruce D. and Ditmas A., both in school in Pontiac. Mr. Bromley is a Democrat, but not a politician in any sense. He is a Mason with affiliations with the Commandery and the Knights Templar. He is also a member of the Maccabees.