Cunningham, Amor D

Cunningham, Amor D.

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Ripley County, Indiana, July 12, 1833. He experienced religion and entered Brookville College in his nineteenth year, spent some years in school-teaching, and finally entered the Indiana Conference. In 1860 he assumed the editorship of the Daily Indiana American, and afterwards served some time as chaplain of the Fifth Indiana Cavalry. In 1862 he was transferred to the North-west Indiana Conference; subsequently was elected president of Northern Indiana College; and died August 9, 1868. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1868, page 250.