Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-12-05
CAPT. HARVEY N. BRUCE.

tnTouSnout WiuusoV county, u'e.
ut his home Mon.lay morning OF
heart disease. He had not been
well Tor some months, but did moi
begin to fail rapidly until II few
days before his death.
Captain Bruce passed most OF his
life, with the exception of n few
ears IN Barnard, and in the West,
at the old homestead where he died.
lie was very popular in Grand
Army circles and WAS always n con-
spicuous figure at the reunions an
nually held in Barnard. AT the roll
call of his old Company 6, of the
Sixteenth regiment, last August, II
was found that 90 men had died,
and, of the living 40, rs were pres
ent.
lie had held many offices in the
town where he was so universally
respected, and besides twice repre-
seating it in the Legislature, had been
sclectman, town superintendent OF
schools and justice OF the peace.
Captain Bruce was born in Pom
fret, June 20, 1896, his grandfather,
Jesse Bruce, coming from Scotland.
He attended the district schools of
Pomfret, the Green Mountain Lib,
eral Institute at South Woodstock,
and studied surveying under Hosea
Doton. He was member oiatlie
Woodstock Light Infantry Attic
breaking out OF the war and enlisted
for three months in that COMPANY
as corporal, in April, 1861. He
received his discharge in the August
following. July II, 1862, he was
commissioned third lieutenant of
the same company. In August,
1862, he enlisted as private in Co.
G, 10Th Vermont regiment, was
elected its captain Sept. 4, 1862, and
served in that capacity until Aug.
10, 1863.
Capt. Bruce was twice elected to
the legislature from Pomtrct and
was a representative at the time of
the St. Albans raid, being elected
first lieutenant of Il company of 200
members raised to 90 to the relief of
the town.
lie married, first, Sept. 10, 1868,
Jane A. Tinkham OF Pomtret. They.
had two chil,iren.-Mary. not now
living, who married Winifred Per-
kins of Barnard, and Isadore IT,,
wife OF Harry V. Wakefield, mer-
chant Of Lyndonv,lle. Capt. Bruce
second, .Abbie, daughter of
Paul and Alkaline (Gale) Crowell
of Barnard, who survives him.
Captain Bruce was member of
George &. Randall Post, 6. A. r.,
of Woodstock, was cx-commandcr
of George J.. Stannard Post, Yer
mont City, South Dakota.
Some years ago he became inter-
ested in the founding Of Vermont
colony OF old soldiers in the N ORTIZ
west, and travelled extensively in
that section kefore site was select
ell in South Dakota. 1t was named
"Vermont CITY," and is largely peo-
pied by settlers from this section.
Later he selected site for New
England City, on the Connon Ball
river, in the southwest part of North
Dakota. After about tour years
spent in the Northwest he returned
to Vermont.
Captain Bruce was school
teacher in his earlier years, and there
are many kindly tributes to him from
his old pupils. One OF them says:
81 shall not soon forget the pleas
ure he seemed to take in meeting
some Of his OLD pupils, when Judge
Ira A. Abbott of Haverhill, Mass,
Hon. ID. ]. Carnes of Illinois and
myself appeared before him at the
"Old Home" gathering in Pom
fret in 1909; nor the pleasant way
in which he spoke of the time when
he was teacher and we were his pu-
pills."
The funeral was held at the bouse
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock,
there being large attendance of
townspeople and many from neigh
boring villages. Rev. H. l.. Cam
field officiated and the bearers were
iellow-me nbers of Randall Post
Elba L. Jillson, E. O. Wheeler,
Charles Reed and Charles A. Bur-
nell. Two hymns were sung by
choir from North Pomfret-Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Leonard, Mrs. Viii.
liam Adams and w. E. Perkins. In
terment was III Riverside cemetery
at Woodstock. ,..,'
Among the relatives present from
a distance were Mrs. Henry V.
Wakefield of Lyndonville, Ernest
Walker of Springfield, Mass, and
Mrs. johnson OF Boston.
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