Henry Kumler Sr. (1775–1854)
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in the

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, elected in 1825. Newspapers.com website, ''Death closes Life of Rich Usefulness'', article published in the Dayton Herald, dated August 30, 1911
/ref> Henry's son Henry Kumler Jr was also elected bishop. His grandson

Daniel Kumler Flickinger Daniel Kumler Flickinger (25 May 1824 – 29 August 1911) was an American bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, elected in 1885. He was the twenty-fifth Bishop of this Christian denomination, and the first elected to the offic ...

was also a bishop, as well as carrying out missionary work in Sierra Leone. General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church website, ''Methodist History'', ''(Bishops of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ)'', published in Volume 46:4 (July 2008), page 245
/ref> He was buried in Miltonville near Trenton,

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