Bruce Newman
Bruce Frederick Newman (24 April 1918 - 27 June 1968) was an engineer with dual Canadian-American citizenship.
Early life
He was born in Elmira, New York, USA, to Clint Newman and Eugenia Swift and later moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Career
He joined the Association of Professional Engineers of the Province of Ontario as a Professional Engineer on 10 May 1946.
From 1944 to 1949, and again from 1954 until his death in 1968, Bruce worked for Sangamo Company Limited, a manufacturer of electric clocks.
From 1949 to 1954 he worked for Ontario Hydro.
Sangamo Company Limited
[[File::SangamoAd1958.PNG|thumb|A Sangamo advertisement, 1958. Taken from The Leaside Story by Charles Clay (1958).]] Sangamo Electric Company of Springfield, Illinois, established 1899, made clocks, timers and power meters. Their Canadian subsidiary, Sangamo Company, Limited, eventually acquired Lamb Electric Co.'s Canadian subsidiary, which became the "Lamb Electric Division of Sangamo Co., Ltd." We have also seen motors from "Wagner Electric Division of Sangamo Co., Ltd." and "Wagner-Leland Division of Sangamo Co., Ltd."
Sangamo Co., Ltd. was created in 1911 as the Canadian sales arm of Sangamo Electric Co. In early 1917, manufacturing began on Adelaide Street in Toronto in order to avoid the duty applied to imported meters. On the 1st of January 1932, Sangamo Co., Ltd. acquired exclusive rights to Wagner Electric Corp.'s motor business in Canada, including the right to operate the business under the Wagner company name. Manufacture of Wagner electric motors began in a plant on Stafford Street in Toronto.
The manufacturing space in Toronto soon proved inadequate but the company's finances did not permit a move to better facilities. In 1940, with the company operating at full capacity because of the war effort and with manufacturing space in Toronto selling at a considerable premium, Sangamo was able to sell their existing plant for a tidy profit and build a new plant in Leaside, a Toronto suburb.
Marriage and family
He married Ruth Coulter on 10 October 1942.
Bruce was not able to serve in the war due to his eyesight, according to Sandra Kenzie.
He is the maternal grandfather of Michael Currie.
Death
Just two months after his 50th birthday, he died suddenly on 27 June 1968.
Sources
Ancestry.ca