BRUCE, Alfred William^{[1, 2]}

1879 - 1955  (76 years)

• Name	BRUCE, Alfred William
  Birth	16 Jan 1879	West Boylston, Worcester, MA, USA   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Census	17 Jun 1880	West Boylston, Worcester, MA, USA
  Obituary	From the Brooklyn Eagle, 20 Jan 1955: Alfred Bruce, 76, Rites Tomorrow Brookhaven, Jan. 20-Funeral services for Alfred W. Bruce. retired vice president of the American Locomotive Company, 30 Church St., Manhattan, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in St. James Episcopal Church. Burial will be in West Boylston, Mass., his birthplace. Mr. Bruce, who lived on S. Country Road, died Tuesday Central Suffolk Hospital, Riverhead. He was graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1901, and soon after joined the American Locomotive Company, remaining with the concern until his retirement in 1946. An authority on steam locomotives, Mr. Bruce was the author of "The Steam Locomotive in America," published in 1952. He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Masonic order. His wife, Mrs. Edna Valentine Bruce, and a stepson, Coles Trapnell, survive.  [4]
  Occupation	Design engineer for various steam locomotives, primarily with American Locomotive Company  [4]
  Residence	Manhattan, New York, New York, USA   [1]
  Death	19 Jan 1955	Central Suffolk Hospital, Riverhead, Suffolk, NY USA   [5, 6]
  Burial	Mount Vernon Cemetery, West Boylston, Worcester, MA, USA
  Person ID	I401	Hugh Byrne and Nanette Asimov Lines
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2025

  
  

  Father	BRUCE, William Mirick,   b. 1838, West Boylston, Worcester, MA, USA d. 1918 (Age 80 years)
  Mother	TILTON, Eliza R,   b. 1840, West Boylston, Worcester, MA, USA d. 1892 (Age 52 years)
  Family ID	F2553	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	VALENTINE, Edna Sarah,   b. 31 Aug 1882, Brookhaven, Long Island d. 23 Jul 1971, Santa Monica, Ca (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	16 Nov 1940	New York
  		Edna Valentine - Alfred Bruce Wedding Invitation 1940 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lewis Valentine announce the marriage of their daughter Edna Valentine Trapnell to Mr. Alfred William Bruce on Saturday, the sixteenth of November One thousand nine hundred and forty New York City
  Photos		sally-alfred-coles-1941
  Documents		Edna Valentine - Alfred Bruce Wedding Invitation 1940 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lewis Valentine announce the marriage of their daughter Edna Valentine Trapnell to Mr. Alfred William Bruce on Saturday, the sixteenth of November One thousand nine hundred and forty New York City
  Family ID	F77	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2019

  
  

  Family 2	BURNS, Sharolotha,   b. 2 Sep 1876, Boylston, Worcester, MA USA d. 11 Aug 1939, 539 W 141st Street, New York, New York, USA (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	25 Dec 1905	West Boylston, Worcester, MA, USA   [7, 8]
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  Documents		Alfred-Charlotte-Bruce-Illustration Let us sing a little song about the Bruces Let us celebrate that good old Scottish name Let’s immortalize their faces, Their gentilities and graces In our own completely private Hall of Fame As to Charlotte, she’s petite and very gracious With a pleasant dash of sprightliness and fun She’s a clever raconteur And a penny connoisseur And she holds her own at bridge with anyone As to Alfred, he is straight and tall and brainy He’s a rootin’ - tootin’ engineering chief Oh, he makes the choo-choos choo And he plays pinochle too With an everlasting luck beyond belief Let us sing a little song about the Bruces May their clouds, if they have any, all disperse May the guiding star above ‘em Never leave ‘em for we love ‘em Which is why we up an busted into verse Presented to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Bruce, Jan 8, 1938
  Family ID	F3190	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2019

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 16 Jan 1879 - West Boylston, Worcester, MA, USA Census - 17 Jun 1880 - West Boylston, Worcester, MA, USA Residence - - Manhattan, New York, New York, USA Marriage - 25 Dec 1905 - West Boylston, Worcester, MA, USA Marriage - 16 Nov 1940 - New York Death - 19 Jan 1955 - Central Suffolk Hospital, Riverhead, Suffolk, NY USA Burial - - Mount Vernon Cemetery, West Boylston, Worcester, MA, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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  [S129] Ancestry.com, U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005), Online publication - Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005.Original data - United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, M1509, 4,582 rolls. Roll 1786674, DraftBoard 141. [S11] Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1880 United States Federal Census, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005), Bruce, Alfred W, White/Male/1/Son/Born in Mass/Father Born in Mass/Mother Born in Mass. [S423] Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988, Jan 16 1879, Alfred William Bruce, Male, Father- William Bruce, Mother- Eliza A Tilton, Father’s Occ - Farmer, Father’s Birthplace- West Boylston, Mother’s Birthplace- West Boylston. [S1589] Alfred Bruce, 76, Rites Tomorrow. [S1588] Alfred W Bruce. [S1589] Alfred Bruce, 76, Rites Tomorrow, Mr. Bruce, who lived on S. Country Road, died Tuesday Central Suffolk Hospital, Riverhead. [S688] Person Monument Order, 1879 Alfred W. Bruce Their Son 1955-1877 Charlotte Burns His Wife 1939. [S847] Bruce/Burns Certificate of Marriage.