Bruen, James Mcwhorter

Bruen, James Mcwhorter a Presbyterian minister, was born in Newark, N.J., July 30, 1818. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1839, and from the Union Theological Seminary in 1842. He was ordained July 1, 1845, and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of New Windsor, N.Y. His pastorate of three years in that Church (1845-48), and another of equal length in the Reformed Dutch Church at Clintonville, N.J. (1849-52), were his only terms of continuous ministry. For the last twenty-nine or thirty years of his life he resided in Irvington, N.J., where he led a quiet and scholarly life. He died at Clayton, in February 1881. See Presbyterian, February 12, 1881. (W.P.S.)