Bundy, Solomon
lawyer, congressman, was born May 22, 1823, in Oxford, N. Y. He was district attorney of Chenango county from 1862 to 1865; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fifth congress.
BUNGAY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, journalist, author, poet, was born Nov. 28, 1826, in England. He was a New York journalist well known as a temperance lecturer. He wrote many poems, among which The Creeds of the Bells has long been popular. His other writings include The Abraham Lincoln Songster; The Poets of Queen Elizabeth's Time; Offhand Takings; Crayon Sketches; and Pen Portraits of Illustrious Abstainers. He died July 10, 1892, in Bloomfield, N. J.
BUNKER, RUFUS A. W., educator, clergyman, lecturer, was born Oct. 23, 1844, in Roxbury, Maine. During the war he served as a soldier in the fifth regiment Maine battery. In 1871 he graduated from the New Hampshire conference seminary and female college; and in 1874 from the School of Theology of the Boston university. He has attained success as a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; has lectured extensively; and is the author of several hymns and numerous religious articles.