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

520 THE SCROLL.Though in his youth he had been delicate, his health seemed to be perfectlyrestored and the shock of his sudden death was doubly great. . Yet inhis brief life he succeeded in impressing himself on his friends, his city andhis state, leaving them richer by his^ life. For though his bodily presencehas been taken, the stimulus that his life has left will remain. His passionatelove for his state and his fellow Virginians; his knowledge of and reverencefor their great past; his steady faith in an equally great future; all combinedto leave an imprint on those around him that has made and will continueto make them more worthv of the state he loved and served so well.•JAMES ALLEN FCLLENWIDEK, ILLINOIS WESLEVAN, '82.On the night of December 3, 1903, Bro. James X. FuUenwider,Illinois Wesleyan, '82, died at Mercy Hospital, Chicago,the victim of a robber's bullet. Bro. FuUenwider wasreturning to his home on the evening of December 2, about 7o'clock, when he met two highwaymen who separated, allowinghim to pass between them, when they ordered him to holdup his hands. He did so, and then turned to run when hereceived the bullet which resulted in his death.Bro. FuUenwider was 47 years of age. He was born incentral Illinois, and having prepared for college attended IllinoisWesleyan University from which he was graduated.After leaving that institution he took a course at the Universityof Michigan I^aw School. After graduating from thelaw school he went to Chicago where he began to practice hisprofession in 1879. From that time until his death he was anactive practitioner at the Chicago bar. That he was successfulis attested by the fact that when he began his legal careerhe was obliged to use his office as his living apartment also,and at the end of his career he had accumulated considerableproperty and was counsel in Chicago for the Standard OilCompany and was one of Chicago's best known attorneys.He was a very active supporter of the Presbyterian Church,being at the time of his death a trustee in the Forty-first streetPresbyterian Church. ' He was a member of the Hamilton,Lincoln and Press clubs of Chicago.It was my good fortune during the last three years to meetBro. FuUenwider almost every day at the Hamilton Club,where he usually went for his lunch, and also to see him aboutthe courts and at Phi dinners, at which he was always a loyalattendant, and I invariably found him an enthusiastic Phi,a courteous gentleman and a high-minded lawyer and citizen.Bro. Richard Henry Little, who knew Bro. FuUenwider aswell or better than any of the Chicago Phis, in a letter to theeditor of THE SCROLL just after the shooting of Bro. FuUenwider,paid a fine tribute to his life and character. Bro.