CHARLES E. BUNDEL, druggist,
was born in Lancaster. Penn., November 14, 1844, and is a son of
Michael and Charlotte (Spurier) Bundel, the former a native of
Lancaster, Penn., and the latter of England, both of whom died in
Lancaster many years ago. Our subject grew to manhood and received his
education in his native town. He there learned the drug business, came
to Cleveland, Ohio, in the fall of 1867, and in the spring of 1869
located in Sharon, where he began clerking for Viall & Carnes. In
1870 he succeeded Mr. Carnes, and the firm of Viall & Bundel was
organized. In 1874 Mr. Bundel withdrew from the firm and opened his
present drug store, where he has since conducted a successful business.
In June, 1864, he enlisted in the Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania
Volunteers, and served till the close of the war, participating in the
Atlanta campaign and Sherman’s march to the sea. He was married October
20, 1870, to Miss Sarah E. Murphy, of Lancaster, Penn., who has borne
him four children: Mary C., Grace, Charles M. and Kate H. Politically
he is a Republican, and has been a member of the borough council one
term. Mr. Bundel was one of the organizers of the Sharon Engine and
Hose Co., now the Sharon Fire Department, has been chief of the
department since 1881, and has done a great deal toward building up
that institution to its present high state of efficiency.
Source: (History of Mercer County, 1888, page 712)
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