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

Si8 THE SCROLL.his activities,—legal, social, military and political,—hadbeen too strenuously drawn upon,—proved to be that ofacute Bright's disease. He rapidly passed into coma due tothe uremic poisoning of the disease and died at 6 o'clock, A.j\i., Sunday, Aug. i6, 1903.Bro. Bundy was born at Trellston, Ohio, Oct. 4, 1866, hisfather having been a veteran of the civil war, and havingdied as a result of a wound received at the battle of StonesRiver. He entered Ohio University and was initiated intoPhi Delta Theta by Ohio Gamma chapter in the fall of 1881.His college course was marked by a leadership in manylines of student activity, and he was one of the most influentialof the members of Ohio Gamma. During one year heserved as managing editor of the Wellstown Argus, while yetan undergraduate. As reporter of his chapter in his senioryear he attended the Delta Province convention at Delawarein May, 1886. After graduation from Ohio University heentered the Cincinnati Law School, finishing his course therein 1889. He then located in Cincinnati, and his talents invarious lines soon won him many honors. He was an activepromoter of the Sons of Veterans;" was commander-inchiefof the order in 1894 and again in 1895, and was a divisioncommander at the time of his death. In 1901 after aspirited contest he was elected Colonel of the First Regiment,Ohio National Guard, in which position he was signallysuccessful, and at the time his fatal illness came on, hewas arranging details in connection with the annual encampmentof this regiment with the state guard at Newark. Hewas four times elected solicitor of the village of Norwood, aresidential suburb of Cincinnati. In 1898 he entered upon asphere of activity and usefulness as United States attorney forthe district of Southern Ohio, being appointed to that positionby President McKinley, and later re-appointed for asecond term, which he was serving at the time of his death.In political councils he was near the throne; was alwayspresent at the conventions of the Ohio League of Republicanclubs, and was last year unanimously elected presidentof the league.Bro. Bundy was married to Miss Eva P. Leedom, of Manchester,O., who with one son, Sanford Bundy, now aged tenyears, survives him. His domestic life was an example ofpurity and happiness. As a Phi, Bro. Bundy's enjoyment ofhis fraternity grew more keen with the passage of time. Hewas a leader in his chapter in college, and was the closest of