Carl Kitchen, (1890-1952) Idaho Senate Official, Dies
Veteran Legislative Aide Succumbs After Long Illness
The Idaho Statesman, September 14, 1952
Carl C. Kitchen, Sr., who served as secretary or assistant secretary of the Idaho State Senate since 1925, died at his home on Overland Road Saturday following a long illness.
Since 1933, Mr. Kitchen operated a legal publications firm which served the legal profession in Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. Since that date he had annotated virtually all of the Idaho codes and had recodified the ordinances and codes of many Idaho cities.
A life-long Republican, he still was retained in an official capacity in the state senate when it was controlled by Democrats because of his parliamentary skill and detailed knowledge of organization.
No one in the state ever served the legislature for so long in a consecutive period.
Mr. Kitchen was born at Mayfield, Mich., Oct. 21, 1890. He attended the Michigan State Normal School and served for a time as superintendent of the high school at Frederick, Mich.
He came to Cascade, Idaho, in 1917 where he taught the first school to be built there. He served in the Air Corps in the first World War.
He was employed by the Boise-Payette Lumber Company in Cascade and was also elected Valley County Recorder.
In 1925 he was appointed assistant secretary of the state senate and for the next 27 years he served the chamber eith as secretary or assistant secretary.
Kitchen set himself up in the legal publications business in 1933 and he continued in that work until his death.
He was one of the original founders of the Robins for Governor committee early in 1946, and the work of that committee led ultimately to the nomination of Dr. C. A. Robins as the Republican candidate for governor and his election in November of that year.
Services will be held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Summers chapel. The Rev. Dr. Charles Donaldson will officiate.
Survivors include a son, Carl Kitchen, Jr., of Homedale and Boise; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Branson of Pasadena, Calif., and Mrs. Frances Britton, of Coalinga, Cal., and five grandchildren.
Additional Comments:
He married Nora Jane Goslow April 19, 1917, in Boise. They later divorced. He married Georgia A. Andrews October 12, 1935. She died January of 1947.
He is buried at the Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise. There is also a memorial monument for him at the Pioneer Yellow Pine Cemetery, commemorating decades spent on his Johnson Creek timber claim during his free time and his love for the Yellow Pine area.
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