Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Kitchen, Eliza Emerson  1834 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Mrs. Eliza Emerson Kitchen, who has for nearly ten years been a resident of

Plateau valley, Mesa county, has had an interesting and varied career, involving

much of the tragedy of life as well as its sunshine and cheer.  She was born in

Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, in 1834, and is the daughter of John and Jane

(Kendrew) Emerson, natives of England, who came to the United States in 1829,

and settled in the place of her birth, where they were prosperously engaged in

farming.  The mother died in 1837 and the father in 1888, aged eighty-four. 

They were the parents of five children, of whom Mrs. Kitchen was the fourth. 

She passed her girlhood in her native state and was married there to John

Kitchen, a native of England.  When the Civil war was nearing its close he

enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Eighty-eighty Pennsylvania Infantry, and

served to the end of the contest, being discharged on December 1, 1865.  They

then moved to Nebraska and were again engaged in farming until his death in

March, 1891, at the age of sixty-two.  In 1894 Mrs. Kitchen came to Colorado to

live, and located in Plateau valley, where she has since made her home, her

daughter, Mrs. M.C. Thompson, and husband coming with her.  She and her husband

were the parents of five children, Jennie, Mary D., Thomas E., Ella, Anna M.

(deceased), Cora M. (Mrs. Thompson) and Charles A.  Mrs. Kitchen is widely known

and highly esteemed in this country, and finds her residence in Colorado

pleasant and satisfactory.  She is well pleased with the state and warmly

attached to its people as they are to her.  

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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