Profile and Portrait Edward A. Rumely circa 1912

[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 42 no. 1-5 July-Nov. 1912]

Edward A. Rumely […] was born at La Porte, Ind., in 1882, being the son of Joseph J. Rumely, and grandson of Meinrad Rumely, the founder of the agricultural machinery manufacturing industry of the M. Rumely Company, of La Porte.

He received his early education in the schools of his native State and, after studying at the University of Notre Dame, he went to Germany, attending the University of Heidelberg and the University of Freiberg, from which latter institution he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Upon his return to America he carried out his original ideas in connection with education, by founding the Interlaken School, near La Porte, of which institution he is still president, but has devoted his energies largely to the extensive development of the M. Rumely Company, especially in connection with the production of powerful tractors, using internal-combustion engines, with kerosene fuel, for the replacement of animal power in agricultural work.

Dr. Rumely is particularly effective in the whole subject of the development of agricultural efficiency, both by proper educational methods and by the application of power machinery; and by his work and his writings he has done much to advance the cause of efficiency in these departments of work. He is a member and director of the State Commission of the National Association for the Promotion of Industrial Training, and a member of the American Association of Agricultural Engineers, and is secretary and treasurer of the M. Rumely Company, of La Porte, Ind.