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.

[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.

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