Harvey Denison Kitchel

Harvey Denison Kitchel
Kitchel posing with his six sons, circa 1870
President of Middlebury College
In office 1866–1875
Preceded by	Benjamin Labaree
Succeeded by	Calvin Butler Hulbert
Personal details
Born	February 3, 1812 Washington County, New York, USA
Died	September 11, 1895 (aged 83) East Liverpool Columbiana County, Ohio
Children	Harvey S. Kitchel
Alma mater	Middlebury College
Profession	University president; pastor
Religion	Congregationalist

Harvey Denison Kitchel (February 3, 1812 – September 11, 1895) was a Congregationalist minister who served as the president of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, from 1866 until 1875.

Kitchel graduated from Middlebury in 1835 and received his Doctor of Divinity in 1858. In 1865, he was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from Yale University.^[1]

Kitchel was the grandfather of Cornelius P. Kitchel, the mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, from 1930 to 1933.^[2] He was the great-grandfather of Denison Kitchel,^[3] a Phoenix lawyer who was the national campaign manager of U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater's 1964 presidential bid against Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas.

References

1. "Bulletin of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, December 1, 1931 Obituaries, p. 13" (PDF). mssa.library.yale.edu. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
2. The New York Times, January 15, 1947, p. 25
3. "William Lloyd Kitchel (1869-date of death unknown)". records.ancestry.com. Retrieved June 4, 2013.

External links

• Kitchel Ancestry page (source for birth and death dates)