THOS. SEDDON BRUCE,
President of the Vulcan Iron Company of Richmond, Virginia, was
born in Albemarle county, Virginia, on July 23, 1849. He is a son of
Charles and Sally Bruce, now living in Charlotte county, Virginia. His
father was born in Halifax county, this State, the son of James Bruce;
his mother is a daughter of Thomas Seddon of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
His wife is Mary A., daughter of Gen. Joseph B. Anderson, of
Richmond, in which city she was born. Her father is a Virginian, by
birth and descent, born in Botetourt county. Her mother, whose
maiden name was S. E. Archer, died in 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce were
married in Richmond, on April 7, 1875, and have five children, born in
the order named: Sallie A., Charles, jr., Joseph R. A., Seddon, Kathleen
A.
Until Mr. Bruce was sixteen years of age, he was educated at his
home in Charlotte county. At that age he attended school at Greenwood,
Albemarle county, then the University of Virginia, completing
his studies abroad, at the University of Berlin, Prussia. He came to
Richmond in 1873, and engaged in the wholesale grocery business. In
1878 he went into the iron business in the works of which he is now
president. Philip Alexander Bruce, his brother, has been associated
with him for two years, and is secretary and treasurer of the company.
