When Alpha Kitchen was born on 27 June 1876, in Township of Algoma, Kent, Michigan, United States, his father, Allen Fayetta Kitchen, was 20 and his mother, Minerva Davis, was 16. He married Olive Mae McLain on 1 January 1899, in Kent, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Detroit Ward 15, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920. He died on 8 March 1953, in Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
"During the late 19th century, cast-iron stove manufacturing became Detroit's top industry and later the city received the nickname, ""Stove Capital of the World."""
Detroit was the home of the second dime and nickel stores that S. S. Kresge owned. After two years with John McCrory, his partner, he traded his share in the Memphis store, plus $3,000, for full ownership of the Detroit store and formed the Kresge & Wilson Company with his brother-in-law, Charles J. Wilson. In 1962, the S. S. Kresge Company would rebrand and change their name to Kmart.
English: from Middle English kichene ‘kitchen’ (Old English cycene), hence an occupational name for someone who worked in or was in charge of a kitchen.
Scottish: adopted, on account of phonetic resemblance, as an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Uisdein, see McCutcheon .
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