David Kiehle (1875-1881)

David Kiehle

• Educated at the New York State Normal School in Albany, New York, and the Union Theological Seminary in New York City
• Was an ordained Presbyterian minister
• Before coming to St. Cloud, Kiehle was county superintendent of schools in Fillmore County, Minnesota, as well as a member of the Minnesota State Normal Board
• In 1881, Kiehle resigned as president at St. Cloud State to become the Minnesota state superintendent of public instruction, a post he held until 1903
• Kiehle was a faculty member at the University of Minnesota from 1891 to 1902
• Kiehle's service at the University of Minnesota was honored when Kiehle Building, the University of Minnesota - Crookston campus library, was named for him in 1912, two years after it opened
• Kiehle Visual Arts Center (1952), the former Kiehle Library, is named in his honor