He was born in Chicago, Illinois into a successful ranching family, the son of Thornhill Francis Broome and Caryl Russell Spoor.
William Richard Broome was the owner of the southern portion of the historic Spanish land grant Rancho Guadalasca in Ventura County, which lay from Pitcher Slough to and beyond Sycamore Canyon with minor property breaks.
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