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gâ€"â€" & / < %fii | ’fi;l( ORIGIN _OF BLOOMSBURG - | %%Qélf‘ The Kitchen family came from Columbia County, F’ Pennsylvania, near a place calléd Bloomsburg, located at the 3 junection of Fishing Creek and the Susquehanna River. i They came to Norfolk in 1810, and the father settled near the present Townsend village of Bloomsburg. ' William Kitchen was eleven years oid when the family came to Canada, and when his father was drafted in 1814 ; he offered himself as a substitute. He was only fifteen then, ; but tall and muscular for his age, and was readily accepted. f-3 At the close of the war he was awarded a pension for his }{x services, and also drew land at the Rond Eau. %%;ffigf Lavinia, eldest daughter of John Heath was born in '%%%%;??Q 1801, and in her 17th year married William Kitchen. After he LE%?{: married, he first settled on this land, but after performing ’%fi%fi' the settling duties he returned to Towfisend, where he purchased %Eif éOO acres adjoining his father‘s, and founded the village %%t; which bears the name of his Pennsylvania birthplace. | | | ]?i'i | The old hotel, which he built and kept for so many ;flf' years, is still standing, and is now owned by Mr. Douglas | if; Saltzberry. . | éJ‘ During the second quarter of the century, no man E* _ was better known than "Billy" Kitchen, and probably no man %fi in the county accumulated property faster than he during that _ l%%éi. _ period. P - , 2 W 1 e e 0 Mepprrirnene hn 00000 0e ie o nelat, Femmemnentotre nfi on D nfitioates la‘n ols ds nslln ofi