Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1888 — An Oddly Named Family. [ARTICLE]

An Oddly Named Family.

Names are sometimes oddly thrown on the heads of unoffending babes at the birth or christening, and they hang to them all their lives, The Kumler family are remarkable for their names as well as their good luck. One child was called “Theodore, King of Abyssinia;” another “Jeremiah, Prophet Elisha;” a third, “Martha’s Vineyard;” while a fourth went through the world as “Terra Del Fuego,” or “Del” for short. There was also a “Sir Walter Scott Kumler,” and a “Festus, King Agrippa,” shortened as “Fes.” When they signed their names they generally wrote the initials. Two of the family were prominent men of Toledo. One, J. P. E., generally had a fat charge, and was for years pastor of the Seventh Street Church; another is a judge, and another is the handsomest man in Northern Ohio.