JUD C. BRUSIE 

Jud C. Brusie, a prominent though young representative of the Sacramento bar, is a native of La Porte, Indiana, born March 28, 1864, his parents being Luther and Margaret (Coffin) Brusie. Luther Brusie, father of the subject, was born at Winsted, Litchfield County, Connecticut, January 21, 1822, and was a son of a soldier of the war of 1812, and grandson of a Revolutionary veteran, while his great-grandfather served in the Colonial forces in the French and Indian wars. He came to Indiana when young with his parents. After finishing his common-school education he began the study of medicine, and on the 27^th of February, 1847, was graduated at Indiana Medical College, Indianapolis. In the fall of 1850 he came out to California across the plains, and engaged in merchandise at Pult’s Bar, in Amador County. In 1854 he went back to Indiana, and gave his attention to the practice of his profession until the breaking out of the civil war. He offered his services in behalf of his country, and on the 22d of October, 1861, was commissioned by Governor Oliver P. Morton and Assistant Surgeon of the Forty-fifth Regiment (Third Cavalry) Indiana Volunteers. He served his country faithfully and with credit and honor to himself, and was wounded and disable in action. In consequence of his injuries he was honorably discharged from the service. In 1869 he again came to California, bringing his family, via Panama. He located in Amador County, where he was a physician of high standing and a prominent citizen until his death, which occurred in May 1887. He was a stalwart Republican, and devoted to the interests of his party. He represented the district in which he resided in the State Legislature of 1880. He was an active member of the State Medical Society, and of the Grand Army of the Republic. Jud C. Brusie, with whose name this sketch commences, was reared in Amador County, and educated there and at the University of the Pacific, in which institution he took the Latin and Scientific course. He commenced reading law with Judge A.P. Catlin, and continued his legal studies in the office of Clunie & Knight, San Francisco. He then returned to Amador County, and was there admitted to the bar in 1885. In 1887 he formed a legal partnership with Frank D. Ryan, which continued one year, since which time he has been alone. Mr. Brusie represented Amador County in the Legislature of 1887-’88, of which he was the youngest member, and served on the Committee on Education, on Mining, on Federal Relations, on Judiciary, and on Elections. He is a member of the Leland Stanford Camp, Sons of Veterans. In politics he is strongly Republican, and last year he made a canvass of the State for Harrison. Mr. Brusie is a young man of unusual attainments, and is popular in and out of his chosen profession. He is now of the firm of Brusie & Taylor, attorneys and searchers of records, Ed. D. being a son of L.S. Taylor, of Taylor & Holl.