HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis
Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, 
Vol. III, pp. 1282-83.   [Bourbon County]

C. BRUCE SMITH, M.D.--Among the able and representative physicians and
surgeons who are lending dignity and honor to their profession within the
borders of the fine old Blue Grass commonwealth is Dr. Smith, who is
engaged in the successful general practice at Millersburg, Bourbon county,
where he has built up a large and substantial business, based alike on
his marked technical ability and his personal popularity in the county
that has been his home from the time of his nativity.
     Dr. Smith was born at Millersburg, the beautiful and thriving little
city in which he now resides, and here he was ushered into the world on
the 21st of June, 1864.  He is a son of Dr. John Bruce Smith and Adalaide
(Ball) Smith, the former of whom was born in New York and the latter in
Kentucky.  Dr. John Bruce Smith was educated in New York but finished his
studies at the University of Louisville.  He then practiced in Fleming
county, Kentucky, for two years, locating in Millersburg in 1859.  He
had been in practice thirty-three years at the time of his death, April
6, 1892, at the age of fifty-six.  His wife died December 27, 1898, being
then fifty-seven years of age.  They were the parents of four children,
as follows: Effie L., who married S. C. Carpenter, of Millersburg; Anna,
who is unmarried and lives in Millersburg; C. Bruce, the subject of this
sketch, is next in order of birth; and Leroy B. died December 12, 1896, at
the age of twenty-six years.
     He whose name initiates this article gained his rudimentary education
in the public schools of his native place and supplemented the same by a
course in the Kentucky Wesleyan College, in Millersburg.  In this
institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1884, and from
the same received the degree of Bachelor of Science.  In September of the
same year he entered the medical department of the University of
Louisville, in which he completed the prescribed course and in which he
was duly graduated in 1886, with the well earned degree of Doctor of
Medicine.  As an undergraduate Dr. Smith was known as a most earnest and
receptive student, and he made good use of the opportunities afforded
him, so that he came forth admirably fortified in the learning of his
profession, the while he had received due clinical experience.  After his
graduation the doctor showed much judgment by seeking his initial
practice under the direction of an older and more experienced member of
his profession.  Under these conditions he was associated in practice
about one year with Dr. Wheeler, an able physician then engaged in
practice at Salyersville, Magoffin county.  After this experience Dr.
Smith returned to his alma mater, the University of Louisville, in the
medical department of which he completed an effective post-graduate
course.  Thereafter he was engaged in post-graduate work in the Hospital
College of Medicine in Louisville for a period of five months, at the
expiration of which he received appointment to the position of interne
in the Louisville city hospital, where he remained fifteen months, during
which he gained most valuable and diversified clinical experience.  After
leaving the hospital Dr. Smith served sixteen months as assistant to
Professor Thomas H. Stucky, who was incumbent of the chair of Materia
Medica in the medical department of Central University of Kentucky. During
this period Dr. Smith delivered class lectures on Materia Medica in the
Louisville College of Pharmacy, and he showed marked facility and
discrimination in the educational work of his profession.
     In January, 1892, Dr. Smith returned to his native place, Millersburg,
where he has built up a large and representative practice and where his
success and popularity set at naught all application of the scriptural
statement that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country."
The doctor is a valued and influential member of the Bourbon County
Medical Society and is also identified with the Kentucky State Medical
Society and the American Medical Association.  He is now serving his
fourth consecutive year as health officer of Millersburg, and he has been
specially assiduous and exacting in the exercising of his official
functions, through which the health of the community has been conserved
in every possible way.  Dr. Smith and his wife are valued factors in the
best social life of the community.  He is a member of the Christian
church and Mrs. Smith of the Baptist, and he is affiliated with the local
organizations of the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellow and the Knights of the Maccabees.
     On the 12th of December, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Dr.
Smith to Miss Maude V. S. Smedley, who was born at Millersburg on the
14th of October, 1867, and who is a daughter of John G. Smedley, one of
the venerable and honored business men of this place and one to whom a
specific tribute is paid on the other pages of this volume.  Dr. and Mrs.
Smith have one daughter, Martha Adalaide, who was born August 4, 1895.

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