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Robert Bruce was born on Februry 20, 1778 in the parish of Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. He believed to have been a descendant of King Robert Bruce.
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Robert Bruce was born on Februry 20, 1778 in the parish of Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. He believed to have been a descendant of King Robert Bruce.
Robert studied theology for five years in Associate Hall under A. Bruce, and was licensed to preach in 1806 by the Presbytery of Perth Associate Church.
Two years in Pennsylvania and the Carolinas, preaching to congregations as opportunity offered, brought him definitely to the decision to make the frontier village of Pittsburgh his future home. On December 14, 1808 he was ordained and became pastor of the Associate Church in Pittsburgh.
As early as 1810 he was prominent enough to be moderator of the Synod. In 1818 bitter controversy arose in his congregation over giving out two lines instead of one in the service of praise; and in 1822 charges were laid against him of too great liberality in respect to other communions.
In 1829 he published a volume of discourses on Christian doctrine and practise. Meanwhile the Pittsburgh Academy, chartered in 1787, was in 1819 rechartered as the Western University of Pennsylvania. A new curriculum and a new faculty were necessary.
Bruce was elected principal and his associates in the faculty were John Black of Glasgow University, a Covenanter, Joseph McElroy of Jefferson College, Associate Reformed, Elisha P. Swift of Williams College, Presbyterian, and Charles B. Maguire, educated in Belgium, Roman Catholic, all scholarly men and destined to eminence in years to follow. This faculty was installed with picturesque and brilliant ceremony in the First Presbyterian Church May 10, 1822. Except for one year Bruce held his office of principal until 1843.
Under his guidance the Western University took high rank and sent out many graduates later distinguished in church and state.
That year it had seventy-two students, graduating a class of six young men. While the life of this college was brief it did excellent educational service particularly in the vicissitudes of the University after the fire of 1845. Its alumni were later made alumni of the University.
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For thirty-eight years he was pastor of this church, now the First United Presbyterian, until his death.
Of gentle voice and gracious manner Bruce was a man of intense convictions and fearless conscience. Adventurous, filled with missionary zeal, he declined the preferment awaiting him in his native country, and committed himself to the crude life of new America.
The portrait of Bruce in the possession of the University of Pittsburgh reveals a dignified personality, benign, refined, forceful; a fine face, a noble head, crowned with abundant white hair.
His son, David D. Bruce, who died in 1907, became one of the eminent lawyers of Pittsburgh.