Brief Life History of Robert Alexander
When Robert Alexander Bruce was born on 15 September 1879, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Alexander Kent Bruce, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Rachel Rafuse, was 34. He married Annabell MacKenzie on 18 December 1901, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died in February 1954, in Waltham, Waltham, Hancock, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 74.
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- Robert Bruce in household of Alexr. Bruce, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Robert A. Bruce, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Robert Alexander Bruce, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a place in Normandy, probably from Brix (La Manche).
Altered form of French Brousse .
History: The son of the Domesday baron, a friend of David I of Scotland, was granted by him the Lordship of Annandale in 1124, and his second son Robert became the founder of the Scottish house of Bruce. — This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with its original form Brousse in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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