This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XOG.2ACIB/1387 Message Board Post: The History Of The Upper Ohio Valley pub. by Brant & Fuller 1890 pages - 679 - 680 George W. Bruce, M.D. a leading physician and prominent citizen of Moundsville, is a native of Frederick County, Va., born July 17, 1827. His father, John Bruce, a native of Scotland, came to this country in 1818, and here was married to Sydney Smith, a native of Virginia. He taught school for many years ; was for nine years president of the Winchester & Potomac Railroad, and subsequently engaged in farming. He died December 31, 1855, aged about sixty-three years, and his wife died February, 1874, aged about eighty. Both were members of the Episcopal Church. Of their eight children, there are besides the doctor, three living. E. C. Bruce of Winchester, Va. ; J. D. Bruce of Clark County, Va. ; and J. S. Bruce, a physician at Colorado County, Texas. Dr. Bruce recieved his first academic training at the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, where he was three years, and then attended medical lectures at Winchester, going from there to the university, at Philadelphia,! where he was graduated in medicine in 1848. He first practiced at Covington Ky., one year, and then came to Moundsville in 1849, where he has ever since been engaged in practice. Winning the entire community in his skill and character, he has occupied from the first a high standing in his profession and in the personal esteem of the people. For eighteen years he has served as physician to the penitentiary, and in the city council has done efficient duty. He is a member of the Masonic order. In 1850, Dr. Bruce was married to Mary Burley, who died in 1866, aged thirty-five. Two children of this union are living, Meta and J. Douglas. In 1867, the doctor was wedded to Ella Burley, and they have one child, Mary Louisa. Mrs. Bruce is a member of the Episcopal Church.