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Rufus Lumry (July 4, 1799 – June 21, 1862) was an American abolitionist, circuit preacher and early organizer of the Wesleyan Church.

Lumry was born in Rensselaerville, New York. He married Betsey Delamater in 1817, joining the Methodist Episcopal Church a few years later. Recognized as an exhorter (lay preacher) in 1824, he was accepted as a candidate for the ministry by the Genesee Annual Conference in 1828 and ordained a deacon at Manlius, New York, by Bishop Elijah Hedding on July 20, 1832. In 1835 he moved to Illinois as a circuit preacher and adopted staunchly anti-slavery views. Taking up residence at Princeton, he is known to have preached in Bureau Township, Indian River, Melugin's Grove, Milford, Oswego, Plano, Plattville, Princeton, and Wilmington. He was on the Canton Circuit in the late 1830s and was the founding pastor of a Wesleyan congregation in Wheaton in 1843. Ordained an elder on October 1, 1837, at Jacksonville, he was arraigned before the Conference at Chicago in 1842 for anti-slavery agitation, which he refused to abandon, stating that no man or group of men would put a padlock on his lips. Leaving to join the Wesleyans, he made an unsuccessful run for Princeton's seat in the Illinois General Assembly in 1844 as an abolitionist, and in 1852 he became a founding trustee of the Illinois Institute, which was renamed to Wheaton College in 1861. He also assisted in the founding of Amity College in College Springs, Iowa. Moving to Colorado with his eldest son Andrew in 1861, he died of hypothermia after getting a leg caught in driftwood in Cache Creek on Quail Mountain near Granite, Colorado. He had accidentally spent the winter in the mountains after joining an expedition to help miners thought to be trapped in them as winter approached.