Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

JUDGE HORATIO W. BRUCE was born in Lewis County, Ky., February 22, 1830,
and is a son of Alexander and Amanda (Bragg) Bruce, and a grandson of John
Bruce, a Revolutionary soldier and a native of Virginia.  He was reared in
Lewis County, and educated in the common-schools of that region, and in
1850, began reading law in Vanceburg.  After thorough preparation he was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Flemingsburg.  He was
elected representative from Fleming County to the House of Representatives
of 1855-56, and in 1856 was elected Commonwealth attorney, the duties of
which he filled with distinguished ability, but resigned in 1859, and
settled in Louisville, where he soon won a large practice.  At the outbreak
of the civil war he cast his fortunes with the Confederacy and went South.
He was elected to the Confederate Congress and served in that field until
the war was over and the cause lost.  He then returned to Louisville and
resumed the practice of law.  In 1868 he was elected Circuit Judge of the
Ninth Judicial District, serving in that position until January, 1873,
when he resigned to accept the chancellorship of the Louisville Chancery
Court.  This position he held until March, 1880.  For several years prior
to the date of his resignation (1880), he taught the history and science
of law in the law department of the University of Louisville; for a long
period, also, he was President of the Board of Trustees of the Louisville
Medical College.  Since 1880 he has been attorney for the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad.  Judge Bruce ranks among the able lawyers of the
Louisville bar and is a jurist of distinguished ability.  He was married
in June, 1856, to Miss Lizzie B. Helm, daughter of Gov. John L. Helm.
They have five children living.

Bruce Bragg Helm
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Lewis-KY Fleming-KY VA

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