DAVID KITCH, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Montfort; born in Mercer Co., Penn., in 1830. His father, Martin Kitch, died when he was an infant. His mother afterward married Mr. McLimans. The family emigrated to the Territory of Wisconsin in May, 1845; they reached Galena on the 2d of May of that year, and Willow Springs, Iowa Co., Wis., on the 9th of that month, and settled near Mineral Point in the fall of that year; the family afterward settled in the town of Fennimore; his mother now lives in that village. Mr. McLimans died in the fall of 1877. Mr. Kitch has been resident of Grant and Iowa Cos. since 1845. He was married to Sylvina Merritt, daughter of Aaron and Isabel, born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, in 1826; she came to Wisconsin in 1849. They have had four children, two whom are living - Frank L. and Minnie I.; children deceased are Martin, an infant, and Milton, who was married to Fanny Welles, and died February, 1880, leaving a widow and one child - Fred M. Mr. Kitch's farm contains 120 acres.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.