Kings County Biographies Transcribed by Kathy Sedler This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm LEWIS BRUCE The science of osteopathy has made a place for itself among recognized curative agencies, and the practitioner of osteopathy is entrenched as firmly in the good opinion of the general public as are the regular practitioners of medicine and surgery. A leader in its field in Kings county, Cal., is Lewis Bruce, whose office is in the Sharples building in Hanford. A native of Cass county, Iowa, born December 5, 1878, he received his elementary education in public schools near the home of his youth. In 1899, just before he became of age, he entered the Dr. S. S. Still College of Osteopathy, at Des Moines, Iowa, where he was graduated in 1902, and during the vacation which followed he took special courses in orificial surgery and gynaecology. He began the practice of his profession at Greenfield, Iowa, in February, 1902; and in June, 1903, came to Hanford, where he has devoted himself to general practice with much success, specializing in chronic diseases. As a business man the subject of this notice is coming to the front in different ways. He is a director of the Lindsay National Bank at Lindsay, Tulare county, and owns an interest in a citrus nursery near Riverside, Riverside county, on which are thirty thousand trees. For a time he was engaged in raising racing horses of good blood and capabilities. He owned Beauty N. (trotting record, 2:23), also Sir Valentine, a three-year-old colt which in 1911 took the first premium as a two-year-old and holds the championship over all other standard-bred stallions of any age. Dr. Bruce was one of the incorporators in 1912 of the Blue Ribbon Manufacturing Company, with $100,000 capital, to be located in Hanford ; the principal article for manufacture will be the Blue Ribbon pump. By his marriage with Olive L. Peterson, of Iowa, in 1903, Dr. Bruce has a daughter, LaVerne Gloria. As a private citizen he takes a deep and abiding interest in all that pertains to the advancement of his city, county and state, and he has often manifested a public spirit responsive to all reasonable demands upon it. History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913 pp. 654 In the treatment of the ills to which human flesh is heir, various schools of medicine, or the healing arts, have come into existence. Prominent among these systems of treatment is osteopathy, of which Dr. Lewis Bruce is a well qualified representative. He was born and reared on a farm near Cumberland, Iowa, and is a son of H. S. and Irene (Burch) Bruce. The father was born in Ohio, though his parents came to that state from Virginia and were of Scotch descent. Lewis Bruce received a high school education, after which he enrolled as a student in Dr. S. S. Still�s School of Osteopathy at Des Moines, Iowa, from which he was graduated in January, 1902. In 1903 he came to California and began practice in Hanford. He remained in Hanford until 1914, when he came to Lindsay, where he has built up a lucrative practice. He was the first osteopath to locate in Lindsay and is one of the pioneer osteopathic physicians of the San Joaquin valley. Just before coming to California Dr. Bruce was married to Miss Leone Peterson and they have two daughters- Gloria and Wilda May. Since locating in Lindsay Dr. Bruce has become connected with one of the city�s substantial financial institutions. He was one of the organizers of the Lindsay National Bank, in which he was a stockholder and director. Later a branch of the Pacific Southwest Trust & Savings Bank was established in Lindsay and in 1924 it took over the business and good will of the Lindsay National. Dr. Bruce is now a member of the advisory committee of the bank. He owns a grove of forty acres of oranges, lemons and grapefruit. History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. I, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926, Page 347 Transcribed by Jeannie Miyama