Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

FRANK H. BRUCE

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            The name of Frank H. Bruce is well and favorably known among the 
citizens of Yuba City, where until 1919 he had conducted a grocery business.  
Since that time he has been engaged in the development of his sixteen-acre 
orchard in the Lincoln district, where he now makes his home.  He was born five 
miles north of Marysville, on September 17, 1881, a son of Eugene H. and Mary 
Ellen (Miner) Bruce. Eugene H. Bruce was the eldest of nine children born to J. 
H. and Annie M. (Binninger) Bruce, natives of Kentucky and Germany respectively, 
both now deceased.  Grandfather Bruce came to California in 1848 and was the 
proprietor of the Ten-Mile House on La Porte Road.  He passed away at the age of 
sixty-seven; and his two sons, Benjamin and Oscar, continued the business.  
Later the two brothers sold out and engaged in raising wheat and barley.  Eugene 
H. Bruce conducted a livery and feed business in Marysville.  He passed away at 
his home in that city.
            Frank H. Bruce became an apprentice to learn the carpenter trade 
with the Yuba Construction Company, with whom he worked for twelve years, the 
last two years serving as foreman of the company.  In 1912 Mr. Bruce made a trip 
to Alaska, where he spent one year.
            The marriage of Mr. Bruce united him with Miss Effie M. Wallace, 
born at Scott�s Valley, Siskiyou County; and they are the parents of three 
children, Roberta, Robert, and Wallace.  In 1913, Mr. Bruce suffered a painful 
injury which necessitated his giving up his trade; and so, with the money he had 
laid up he purchased a small stock of groceries and opened a store at the corner 
of Plumas and Sutter Streets in Yuba City.  Six months later he bought the 
property, and during the next five years the store was remodeled and enlarged.  
In 1919 he sold the business; and since that time he has erected a concrete 
storage building on the property, which has a frontage of thirty feet on Reeves 
Avenue and is 120 feet long.  He also built the frame building fronting on 
Plumas, which is used for a vulcanizing shop.  He owns the Bruce Apartment 
House, located next to the concrete store building on Reeves Avenue, and his now 
erecting on Plumas Avenue a frame building 28 by 90 feet, which will be used for 
a pool hall.  Mr. Bruce is a member of the Knights of Pythias and belongs to the 
D. O. K. K. in Sacramento.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1123