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Thomas Kimball Litch, born Fitchburg, Massachusetts on December 22, 1808, was the son of
Thomas Litch and Hannah Kimball, the family being of Scotch-Irish descent. He learned the machinist trade as an apprentice and became the senior member of the firm of T. K. Litch & Co., of
Pittsburgh. Their business was the manufacturing of steam engines, which were used to power the steamboats that traveled from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. He also built the first steamboat to be launched
on Lake Chautauqua, in New York State. In 1834, he married Margaret Black, of Pittsburgh, who died in 1842.
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