Kulp, Monroe H
manufacturer, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 1858, in Barto, Pa. He became connected with the firm of Kulp, Mc- Williams and Company, and in 1886 became manager of the business under his father, the late Darlington R. Kulp.
He is president of the Monroe H. Kulp and Company; the Lewisburg and Buffalo Valley Railroad company, and other institutions. In 1894 he was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican; and in 1896 received the re-election to the fifty-fifth congress.
KUMLER, FRANKLIN A. Z., college president, philanthropist, was born Oct. 20, 1854, in Hamilton, Ohio. Since 1887 he has been president of the Avalon college of Trenton, Mo. In 1890 he bought two hundred acres of land near the city of Trenton, and sola sufficient property from the same to pay for land, build and equip a fine college building. This property, valued at fifty thousand dollars, he presented to the united brethren church.