Kumler, John A
clergyman, was born April 20, 1838, in Butler county, Ohio. For two years he was prosecuting attorney of Danville, Ill.; member of the school board for three years; trustee and veriter of the Illinois Wesleyan university for twenty-one years, and of which institution he is now chancellor. He has always been a patron of education and other worthy enterprises; and since 1868 has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. He has gained success in building churches, and in raising money to relieve embarrassed churches; and to build and endow by money and business methods, schools and colleges.