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William Wallace Bruce (Fayette County, Kentucky, harness manufacturer and city councilman.)

b. 1821-05-09 d. 1896-11-06

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer and city councilman. Kentucky native. Son of John Bruce and Margaret Ross Hutton Bruce. Married to Elizabeth T. Colesberry Bruce in 1840. Father of Margaret N. Bruce, Mary C. Bruce, Laura Sutton Bruce, Alice K. Bruce, Elizabeth C. Bruce, Fannie C. Bruce, and Julia Bruce. Manufacturer in Fayette County in 1850. Owned thirty-four enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Hemp manufacturer in Lexington, Fayette County, in 1860. Owned thirty-seven enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Manufacturer in Fayette County in 1863. Member of the Lexington City Council in 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 203A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, pp. 575-576.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 456B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 249A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Fayette County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 3.

Robert Peter, History of Fayette County, Kentucky: With an Outline Sketch of the Blue Grass Region, ed. William Henry Perrin (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Col, 1882), pp. 565-566.

"William Wallace Bruce (1821-1896)," Find A Grave, Memorial 100465575, accessed August 31, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100465575.

KYR-0001-004-0494.

Citation

Bruce, William Wallace. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201624 (November 12, 2026).

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