Alfred Bruce, 76, Rites Tomorrow


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  • Title Alfred Bruce, 76, Rites Tomorrow
    Date 20 Jan 1955 
    Date Viewed 30 Apr 2025 
    Page 19 
    Periodical Brooklyn Eagle 
    Place Brooklyn, Kings, NY USA 
    Source Type Newspaper 
    URL https://www.newspapers.com/article/brooklyn-eagle-obituary-for-alfred-bruce/171440244/ 
    Source ID S1589 
    Text 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.
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    BRUCE, Alfred William



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