Bruce was born on July 12, 1910, in Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA, to parents Edward Franklin Farquhar and Mabel Labarre Straub.

Education

Bruce attended the University of Kentucky, where his father was an English professor. He was on the tennis team.

Occupation

Bruce worked as a chemist at DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware.

Publications

I’ve found a few articles on the web by Bruce during his working career. Here are some of them:

Proficiency of first-year students in quantitative experiments by Bruce S. Farquhar and Francis Earl Ray

J. Chem. Educ., 1936, 13 (2), p 74
DOI: 10.1021/ed013p74
Publication Date: February 1936

Found at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ed013p74. I don’t have access to the full article but here is the first page:

Military Service

Bruce registered for the draft in 1940 for World War II but he did not serve. He was 30 years old at the time and worked for DuPont at the Virginia location. From the reverse side of the card we learn that he was 5’11” tall, weighed 195 pounds, and had blue eyes and brown hair. The family lived at 361 Maple Avenue, Waynesboro, VA.

Death

1973

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