main: William Wade Dudley
bonus: his father was Mortimer Dormer Leggett (April 19, 1821 – January 6, 1896) a lawyer, school administrator, professor, and major general of the Union Army.
one report says ...
Mortimer M. Leggett, was accidentally killed on October 14, 1873, during an initiation to the Cornell chapter of the Kappa Alpha Society. The younger Leggett was blindfolded and walking along a railroad trestle with other initiates, when he fell, striking the back of his head. Leggett was the first person known to die in a college fraternity initiation.
another says....
Mortimer M. Leggett was the son of a famous Civil War General and one of the first known hazing deaths in the US. He pledged Kappa Alpha during his first semester at Cornell University in New York in 1873. One night, as part of the initiation ceremony, he was blindfolded and taken out into the woods. He was supposed to make his way back to the chapter house in Ithaca. While he was out there, per the custom, he met other members of the fraternity who were removed his blindfold. The three of them started down a slope looking for the nearest road.
According to the Cornell Daily Sun,
"What they did not realize was that at the bottom of the slope was not a road, but a 37 foot cliff. There was not warning as they plunged over. Mort died on the hard-packed rock-like clay at the foot of the cliff. The other two boys were badly hurt."