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Kittell family of Colorado and New Mexico

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  Evert Harris Kittell (1856-1937) — of near Rockville, Sherman County, Neb.; Cortez, Montezuma County, Colo.; Bloomfield, San Juan County, N.M. Born in Shabbona Grove, DeKalb County, Ill., November 14, 1856. Pharmacist; farmer; member of Nebraska state house of representatives 57th District, 1903-04. Died, from heart disease, in a hospital at Durango, La Plata County, Colo., April 5, 1937 (age 80 years, 142 days). Interment at Cortez Cemetery, Cortez, Colo.
  Relatives: Son of George W. Kittell and Rachel Melinda (Porter) Kittell; married, July 11, 1889, to Eva Callen; father of Arthur Callen Kittell (who married Virginia Anna Harmon); grandfather of Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; first cousin four times removed of Pierpont Edwards; second cousin thrice removed of John Davenport, Aaron Burr, James Davenport, Theodore Dwight and Henry Waggaman Edwards; third cousin twice removed of Theodore Davenport; fourth cousin of Ezra H. Frisby; fourth cousin once removed of George Isaac Sherwood, David B. Sherwood and Frank Maurice Frisby.
  Political family: Kittell family of Colorado and New Mexico (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Virginia A. Kittell (1906-1978) — also known as Virginia Anna Harmon — of Bloomfield, San Juan County, N.M. Born in Putnam, Dewey County, Okla., January 30, 1906. Delegate to New Mexico state constitutional convention, 1969; mayor of Bloomfield, N.M., 1978; died in office 1978. Female. Severely injured in a one-car accident on U.S. 50, near Lakin, Kan., when her pickup truck flipped in high winds, and died a week later in Denver General Hospital, Denver, Colo., September 25, 1978 (age 72 years, 238 days). Entombed in mausoleum at Memory Gardens of Farmington, Farmington, N.M.
  Relatives: Daughter of Ira Harmon and Zetta (Kight) Harmon; married, August 11, 1928, to Arthur Callen Kittell, Jr. (son of Evert Harris Kittell); mother of Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of James Allen Rhodes.
  Political family: Kittell family of Colorado and New Mexico (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Arthur Callen Kittell Jr. (1929-1999) — also known as Art Kittell — of Bloomfield, San Juan County, N.M. Born in Colorado, November 14, 1929. Mayor of Bloomfield, N.M., 1990-95; resigned 1995. Died in Bloomfield, San Juan County, N.M., July 22, 1999 (age 69 years, 250 days). Interment at Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield, N.M.
  Relatives: Son of Arthur Callen Kittell and Virginia A. Kittell; grandson of Evert Harris Kittell; first cousin six times removed of Pierpont Edwards; second cousin five times removed of John Davenport, Aaron Burr, James Davenport, Theodore Dwight and Henry Waggaman Edwards; third cousin once removed of James Allen Rhodes.
  Political family: Kittell family of Colorado and New Mexico (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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