Rome Sentinel
December 24, 1943
R. Bruce Nisbet, widely known Roman who sold sewing machines and pianos here for several years, died this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Lansing, Sangerfield.
He was born January 16, 1856, on a farm on Stokes Hill, son of the late Robert and Rhoda Ward Nisbet. His wife, the former Victoria E. Williams, whom he married in Delta in 1878, died here in 1932.
He operated a farm on Stokes Hill until 1888. He came to Rome in April 1891. He served as sanitary inspector, by appointment, for seven years under the administration of Mayors H. A. Caswell, Thomas J. Nock and A. R. Kessinger.
In 1928 he was appointed leak inspector by Mayor Arthur C. Tedd, serving during the six years Mr. Tedd was in office. As leak inspector, he made a thorough survey of city water users, adding many names to the water rent rolls.
For many years he sold sewing machines and painos. In later years he retired from the selling end of the business and devoted his time to sewing machine repair.
Always interest in politics, Nisbet never ran for public office.
He was an enrolled Republican for 63 yeas but admitted he had occasionally cast his ballot for a Democrat.
He often told how he was a founder of the McKinley league in Rome in 1896, the year McKinley defeated the late William Jennings Bryan. He played an active part in the campaign of Gov. Hughes in New York State and was one of the first men to circulate petitions in Rome for Teddy Roosevelt to run on the Bull Moose ticket.
Mr. Nisbet's political philosophy expressed in his own words, was: I have always supported candidates who have stood for a great principal.
In the last presidential election he cast his vote for Wilkie, explaining that he believed Wilkie had the same qualities as Teddy Roosevelt.
Nisbet vividly described his recollection of the black-bordered newspaper announcing Abraham Lincoln's assassination. He would tell how his father worried for days about what will become of the country.
Surviving besides the daughter at whose home he resided is another daughter, Mrs. A. P. Danz, Larchmont, and a son, Robert Nisbet, Morris. Another son, Carleton, died in 1931.
December 24, 1943
R. Bruce Nisbet, widely known Roman who sold sewing machines and pianos here for several years, died this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Lansing, Sangerfield.
He was born January 16, 1856, on a farm on Stokes Hill, son of the late Robert and Rhoda Ward Nisbet. His wife, the former Victoria E. Williams, whom he married in Delta in 1878, died here in 1932.
He operated a farm on Stokes Hill until 1888. He came to Rome in April 1891. He served as sanitary inspector, by appointment, for seven years under the administration of Mayors H. A. Caswell, Thomas J. Nock and A. R. Kessinger.
In 1928 he was appointed leak inspector by Mayor Arthur C. Tedd, serving during the six years Mr. Tedd was in office. As leak inspector, he made a thorough survey of city water users, adding many names to the water rent rolls.
For many years he sold sewing machines and painos. In later years he retired from the selling end of the business and devoted his time to sewing machine repair.
Always interest in politics, Nisbet never ran for public office.
He was an enrolled Republican for 63 yeas but admitted he had occasionally cast his ballot for a Democrat.
He often told how he was a founder of the McKinley league in Rome in 1896, the year McKinley defeated the late William Jennings Bryan. He played an active part in the campaign of Gov. Hughes in New York State and was one of the first men to circulate petitions in Rome for Teddy Roosevelt to run on the Bull Moose ticket.
Mr. Nisbet's political philosophy expressed in his own words, was: I have always supported candidates who have stood for a great principal.
In the last presidential election he cast his vote for Wilkie, explaining that he believed Wilkie had the same qualities as Teddy Roosevelt.
Nisbet vividly described his recollection of the black-bordered newspaper announcing Abraham Lincoln's assassination. He would tell how his father worried for days about what will become of the country.
Surviving besides the daughter at whose home he resided is another daughter, Mrs. A. P. Danz, Larchmont, and a son, Robert Nisbet, Morris. Another son, Carleton, died in 1931.
Rome Sentinel
December 24, 1943
R. Bruce Nisbet, widely known Roman who sold sewing machines and pianos here for several years, died this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Lansing, Sangerfield.
He was born January 16, 1856, on a farm on Stokes Hill, son of the late Robert and Rhoda Ward Nisbet. His wife, the former Victoria E. Williams, whom he married in Delta in 1878, died here in 1932.
He operated a farm on Stokes Hill until 1888. He came to Rome in April 1891. He served as sanitary inspector, by appointment, for seven years under the administration of Mayors H. A. Caswell, Thomas J. Nock and A. R. Kessinger.
In 1928 he was appointed leak inspector by Mayor Arthur C. Tedd, serving during the six years Mr. Tedd was in office. As leak inspector, he made a thorough survey of city water users, adding many names to the water rent rolls.
For many years he sold sewing machines and painos. In later years he retired from the selling end of the business and devoted his time to sewing machine repair.
Always interest in politics, Nisbet never ran for public office.
He was an enrolled Republican for 63 yeas but admitted he had occasionally cast his ballot for a Democrat.
He often told how he was a founder of the McKinley league in Rome in 1896, the year McKinley defeated the late William Jennings Bryan. He played an active part in the campaign of Gov. Hughes in New York State and was one of the first men to circulate petitions in Rome for Teddy Roosevelt to run on the Bull Moose ticket.
Mr. Nisbet's political philosophy expressed in his own words, was: I have always supported candidates who have stood for a great principal.
In the last presidential election he cast his vote for Wilkie, explaining that he believed Wilkie had the same qualities as Teddy Roosevelt.
Nisbet vividly described his recollection of the black-bordered newspaper announcing Abraham Lincoln's assassination. He would tell how his father worried for days about what will become of the country.
Surviving besides the daughter at whose home he resided is another daughter, Mrs. A. P. Danz, Larchmont, and a son, Robert Nisbet, Morris. Another son, Carleton, died in 1931.
December 24, 1943
R. Bruce Nisbet, widely known Roman who sold sewing machines and pianos here for several years, died this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Lansing, Sangerfield.
He was born January 16, 1856, on a farm on Stokes Hill, son of the late Robert and Rhoda Ward Nisbet. His wife, the former Victoria E. Williams, whom he married in Delta in 1878, died here in 1932.
He operated a farm on Stokes Hill until 1888. He came to Rome in April 1891. He served as sanitary inspector, by appointment, for seven years under the administration of Mayors H. A. Caswell, Thomas J. Nock and A. R. Kessinger.
In 1928 he was appointed leak inspector by Mayor Arthur C. Tedd, serving during the six years Mr. Tedd was in office. As leak inspector, he made a thorough survey of city water users, adding many names to the water rent rolls.
For many years he sold sewing machines and painos. In later years he retired from the selling end of the business and devoted his time to sewing machine repair.
Always interest in politics, Nisbet never ran for public office.
He was an enrolled Republican for 63 yeas but admitted he had occasionally cast his ballot for a Democrat.
He often told how he was a founder of the McKinley league in Rome in 1896, the year McKinley defeated the late William Jennings Bryan. He played an active part in the campaign of Gov. Hughes in New York State and was one of the first men to circulate petitions in Rome for Teddy Roosevelt to run on the Bull Moose ticket.
Mr. Nisbet's political philosophy expressed in his own words, was: I have always supported candidates who have stood for a great principal.
In the last presidential election he cast his vote for Wilkie, explaining that he believed Wilkie had the same qualities as Teddy Roosevelt.
Nisbet vividly described his recollection of the black-bordered newspaper announcing Abraham Lincoln's assassination. He would tell how his father worried for days about what will become of the country.
Surviving besides the daughter at whose home he resided is another daughter, Mrs. A. P. Danz, Larchmont, and a son, Robert Nisbet, Morris. Another son, Carleton, died in 1931.
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