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Jay C. Bruce
Jay C. Bruce was born Sept. 20, 1881 at the Washington Mine, three miles from Hornitos, where his father was a mechanic for a prominent mining engineer and promoter, Mose Rogers. I...view moreJay C. Bruce was born Sept. 20, 1881 at the Washington Mine, three miles from Hornitos, where his father was a mechanic for a prominent mining engineer and promoter, Mose Rogers. In 1890, when Jay was nine, due to his father’s longer absences, he learnt to shoot in order to survive. This eventually led to his first large animal kill, and he began selling pelts to tourists to help out the family. He enrolled at the San Francisco School of Mines and Engineering, but his studies were interrupted by the 1906 San Francisco fire and earthquake. When he married in 1910, his business failed and he started supplementing the meager family income by hunting cougars for bounty. Bruce’s work is credited with allowing a great increase in California deer population and making life safer for livestock in the mountains. He died in 1963.view less