The grandfather had been an ocean sailor and upon his arrival in Milwaukee followed the ship carpenter and caulking trade. His sons, after sailing on the Great Lakes for a few years, became ship carpenters, a trade which they followed until the end of their days. Martin succeeded in building large drydocks at Bagdad and Pensacola, Florida, and at Mobile, Alabama. After his death the Bruce interests were concentrated at Pensacola, where the Bruce Dry Dock Company, owned by the descendants, is known as one of the most important on the Gulf of Mexico. John Bruce followed the ship building trade at San Francisco and Oakland, California, until his death. When the elder Bruce came to Milwaukee with his family in 1842 his son Augustus was nine years of age. The latter frequently saw Solomon Juneau, the first permanent settler of Milwaukee, and trailed behind the Indians when these bore the remains of the great pioneer to his grave. He also used to tell his family how, when he was a boy, he had the task of driving a cow which the family kept to pasture over in Kilbourntown, now known as the west side. One day, through boyish playfulness or neglect, he drove the cow into a swamp where she was drowned. The site of this swamp is now covered by the Milwaukee Auditorium, and William George Bruce, who has been directors of that institution since its erection, has humorously boasted that "the Auditorium is a monument to my grandfather's cow.", LISTED, 11/10/2022 WISCONSIN, MARINETTE COUNTY, SIDNEY O. NEFF Shipwreck (steambarge), .35 mi. southwest of the Marinette Harbor entrance in Green Bay, Marinette vicinity, MP100008394, LISTED, 11/7/2022 (Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS) WYOMING, SHERIDAN COUNTY, Stone House, The, 142 SR Buffalo Creek Rd., Wyarno, RS100008015 , 77 likes, 1 comments - wisconsinhistoricalsociety on November 24, 2022: "Congratulations to the Sidney O. Neff shipwreck for recently being added to the National Register of Historic Places! The Sidney O. Neff lies submerged in Green Bay about one-third mile southwest of the entrance to Marinette Harbor..