1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. 515ERVIN- EDGAR EWELL, MICHIG.AN. '91.On February 7, 1904, Bro. Ervin Edgar Ewell, Michigan,'91, died at New Orleans, of typhoid fever, at the age ofthirty-six. He was the son of Samuel Day Edgar Ewell, ofMacomb county, Michigan. After graduating from the Universityof Michigan Bro. Ewell resided in Washington, D. C,until March, 1903, when he resigned from service in the Bureauof Chemistry and removed to Atlanta, Ga., having becomemanager of a German company. In the AmericanChemical Society, and through other channels he labored forsome years very effectually for the establishment of the bureauof standards. At the time of his resignation he had fullcharge of all the co-operative work of the various departments.Because of his doing a great deal of the drudgery ofchemical work he did not give as much time to research ashis training, talent and taste demanded. He, however, publisheda number of papers of high character embodying resultsof careful research. One of his most valuable pieces of researchwas in the study of the intoxicating principles of themescal button, a variety of cactus used by Indians in Mexicoin the celebration of religious rites. He not only conductedan elaborate series of chemical researches on this substance,but also tried it upon himself at great personal risk, andrecorded, as long as the effects of the drug left him volition,all the different phases of the toxic results. He recoveredfrom the experiment without any permanent injury. OnAugust 19, 1896, Bro. Ewell was married to Miss Alice Priest,who with one child survives him.*WINFIELD LE.1IUEL W.IRNER, LEHIGH, '93.Winfield Lemuel Warner, Lehigh, '93, of 29 Fourth Avenue,Brooklyn, died at Saranac Lake, N. Y., on February 28,1904 of consumption after a long period of illness. Bro.Warner was born at Willimantic, Conn., on October i, 1870,and received his early education in the town of his birth.Later he moved with his parents to Brooklyn, N. Y., andentered Lehigh University with the class of '93. He wasinitiated into Phi Delta Theta on December 8, 1889 and remainedan active member of Pennsylvania Eta for one year.He did not return to Lehigh in September, 1890, but pursuedhis studies at Hoboken, N. Y.' After finishing his studiesBro. Warner took the position of superintendent of the tinplate manufacturing department of a large concern at Maywood,111. On account of the poisonous gases connected