HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
p. 1322-23.  Boyd County.

JAMES H. KITCHEN is connected with such a diversity of business interest,
that a short sketch of his life will indicate something of the extent and
scope of his efforts.  A man of resourceful business ability, he stands
among those whose keen discrimination not only enables them to recognize
the opportunity of the present but also the exigencies and possibilities
of the future, and his work is proving a substantial and important element
in the up-building and development of that section of the country which
is fast becoming a great center in commercial and industrial life.
     Mr. Kitchen, vice-president of the Wright-Kitchen Lumber Co., of
Ashland, Kentucky, was born in Carter county, Kentucky, January 8, 1867,
the son of Charles and Loretta (King) Kitchen, a sketch of Charles Kitchen
being printed elsewhere in this work.  James H. was reared on the farm in
Carter county and being the oldest of ten children, went to work at an
early age on the farm and in the store at Leon, for his father, and later
became a partner of his father's under the firm name of Chas. Kitchen &
Son, which continued successfully for twenty-five years and which success
was due in no small way to the business foresight and sagacity of James.
     He is still interested in the store and land in that section, but has
not confined his attention entirely to that one branch of industry.  He
continued to make his home in Carter county until 1910, when he located at
Ashland.  In 1895 Mr. Kitchen entered into partnership with Senator W. B.
Whitt and organized a wholesale grocery at Ashland, under the firm name of
Kitchen, Whitt & Co., and three years later incorporated with a capital of
$100,000 and rapidly enlarged to the present proportions, and lead this
line in northeast Kentucky.  The officers elected at the first are still
in office: J. H. Kitchen, president; W. B. Whitt, vice-president; J. B.
King, secretary; F. R. Henderson, general manager.
     Mr. Kitchen for several years has been interested in manufacturing
staves in Carter county and also for several years has been a member of
the Kitchen Lumber Company which owns twenty thousand acres of timber
land in North Carolina.  In January, 1910, in connection with his
brother, Charles, he bought an interest in a large lumber concern at
Ashland, then known as the Wright, Saulsberry Lumber Company and the same
was incorporated as the Wright, Kitchen Lumber Company, with a capital
stock of $75,000.  The officers are Giles Wright, president; J. H.
Kitchen, vice-president; Chas. Kitchen Jr., secretary and treasurer.
This firm operates a large saw mill at Ashland on the Ohio river, the logs
coming from what is known as Big Sandy territory, the capacity of the mill
being thirty-five thousand feet daily.  It ships lumber to all parts of
the country, making a specialty of oak and poplar, and employs about forty
men in the mill and yards at Ashland.
     In politics Mr. Kitchen is in sympathy with the Democratic party. For
twenty-three years he was Postmaster at Leon, Carter county, having the
post office in the store.  Socially, he is a member of the Masonic order,
being connected with the Blue Lodge No. 145, at Grayson and the Royal
Arch Chapter, No. 81 Commandery and No. 28 Elhasa Temple of the Shriners
at Ashland.
     On May 17, 1888, Mr. Kitchen was married to Florence Pope, of Leon,
Kentucky, and they are the parents of seven children: Nadia, Bessie,
Bertram, Maud, James Jr., Charles and Lauretta, and parents and children
are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South.

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