Indiana and Indianans - a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood (1919) (14577444029)

Identifier: indianaindianans04dunn (find matches)
Title: Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Kemper, General William Harrison, 1839-
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Chicago and New York : The American historical society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center



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Kahn Tailoring Company, of In-dianapolis. In politics Mr. Kahn is a re-publican but has never manifested any de-sire to hold public office. Casselman Lee Bruce came to Elwoodwhen this was one of the important indus-trial centers of the natural gas district inEastern Indiana, and his first service herewas with one of the old glass companies.For the past twenty years, however, he hasbeen in the lumber business and is proprie-tor of the Heffner Lumber & Coal Com-pany, with which he began a number ofyears ago as an employe. Mr. Bruce was born in AlleghenyCounty, Pennsylvania, in 1874. He is ofScotch ancestry, and a son of Charles J.and Phoebe (Shrodes) Bruce. His peopleduring the many generations they havebeen in America have been chiefly farmersand merchants. His father died in Penn-sylvania in 1885 and his mother in 1887.Mr. C. L. Bruce had one brother and fivesisters. He was born on a farm and as a farmboy attended a country school at Sheffield,Pennsylvania. At a very early age he
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-6- Sf (Bs^yvt INDIANA AND INDIANANS 1679 began working during the summer vaca-tions, and at the age of nine years was aboy laborer with the Phoenix Glass Com-pany at Monaca, Pennsylvania. His firstposition was as carrying boy, and whenhe left that firm in 1891 he had advancedseveral degrees in the art and trade of glassmaking. Coming to Elwood in 1891, Mr.Bruce went to work for the McBeth GlassCompany as gathering boy, and re-mained with the glass works there until1899. He gave up the trade and occu-pation of glass worker to operate a rip sawwith the lumber yard and saw mill of LewisHeffner. He was promoted to yard fore-man and finally took over the entire busi-ness for Mr. Heffner, and under his man-agement it has grown and prospered and isone of the largest businesses of its kind inMadison County. Mr. Heffner lived re-tired for several years and died in 1916.The business is now lumber and coal, build-ing supplies and material, and the tradecomes from all the country ten milesaround