Published compiled accounts give his birth as 3 June 1891 in Lehi, Utah, and his death as 16 March 1935 in Salt Lake City, of pneumonia. The same accounts name his parents as Joseph Samuel Broadbent and Amanda Hermandine Twede, and describe him as senior member of the Priesthood Council from 30 September 1934 until his death. Those dates and offices are from a compiled biography, not from a civil record seen for this page.1

A funeral sermon for him, delivered by John Y. Barlow at Larkin Mortuary in Salt Lake City on 19 March 1935, is in the compiled volume Sermons of John Y. Barlow, reported by Marjorie Holm. In that talk Barlow says he had known “Brother Leslie Broadbent” for twenty years, and that he was a husband and a father.2

Lorin J. Broadbent (1930–1970) is recorded as a son. On 3 July 1960 Lorin was called on as a representative of “President Leslie Broadbent,” and said the call was a tribute to his father, whom he had been about four and a half years old when he died. FamilySearch family records list Lorin’s mother as Fawnetta Jessop (1906–1986). That parentage is from compiled family records, not from a civil birth record seen for this page.3