Born: Knox County, O., 1870.
Died:
Grew up on the farm. Taught school and attended school, graduating with honor from the Ohio Northwestern University in 1893. Was principal of the public schools at Sidell, Ill., for nine years, when he resigned to enter the ministry in 1903. Mr. Gaumer has given the churches of that part of Vermilion County helpful service. He was elected to the forty-fourth General Assembly of Illinois on the Prohibition ticket; and again in 1906 by a large majority.