Thomas Edwin Kitchen (December 18, 1852 – April 5, 1897) was an

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-born farmer and political figure in

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. He represented

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from 1890 to 1894 and Westminster-Chilliwhack from 1894 to 1897 in the

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. He was born near Lakeside,

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, the son of Thomas Kitchen, and was educated at Wimbledon, Surrey. He came to the

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during the 1880s. In 1882, Kitchen married Margaret C. Skovgaard. He served as reeve of

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. Kitchen died in office in Chilliwack at the age of 45 after an extended illness.

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