Bruce, Joseph

Bruce, Joseph a Free-will Baptist minister, was born in Springfield, Vermont, in 1821. He was converted when about seventeen years of age, and united with the Methodist Protestant Church. For seventeen years (1840-57) he was a Methodist preacher. He then joined the Free-willBaptists, and was ordained a minister in that denomination in June 1858. It is said that during the year following his baptism he preached more than three hundred sermons, travelling from place to place on foot. He died in Braintree, Vermont, December 16, 1860. See Free-will Baptist Register, 1862, page 92. (J.C.S.)