John Aiken and Elizabeth J. Blaine

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Husband John Aiken ¹

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           Born: 7 Feb 1844 - West Liberty, Ohio Co, WV 2
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         Father: William Aiken (      -Aft 1893) 3
         Mother: Nancy Daugherty (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: Dec 1869 - East Bethlehem Twp, Washington Co, PA 2

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Wife Elizabeth J. Blaine ⁴

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            AKA: Jennie Blaine 2
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         Father: Matthew Blaine (1819-Aft 1893) 4
         Mother: Mary Morton (      -1889) 4

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1 F Mary Aiken ²

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2 M Blaine Aiken ²

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3 F Rose Aiken ²

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4 F Ella Aiken ²

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5 M John Aiken ²

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General Notes: Husband - John Aiken

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When he was a few weeks old the family moved to McKee's Factory, Jefferson County, Ohio. After he attained sufficient age he worked at farming during the summer and attended school in the winter, until August, 1862, when, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Union Army, in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth O. V. I. During the first nine months he served at Cumberland, Maryland, and Martinsburg, West Virginia, when the regiment became a part of the Third Corps, Army of the Potomac, and later of the Sixth Corps. He served as private, corporal and sergeant. On September 18, 1864, when he was serving in this regiment under Gen. Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, he received from the War Department a commission as first lieutenant in the Twenty-Ninth U. S. C. T., with an order to report for duty in the Army of the Potomac. He remained, however, with the old regiment for several days, and participated in the battles of Opequan, September 19; Flint Hill, September 21; and Fisher's Hill, September 22. On September 28, he started to join his new regiment, into which he was mustered October 10, 1864, at Poplar Grove Church, Virginia. This regiment then formed a part of the Fourth division of the Ninth Corps. It was afterward transferred to the Twenty-fifth Corps, in the Army of the James, in front of Richmond. Ten days after he was mustered in, he was placed in charge of and was the only officer in the company. From that time until he was mustered out in December, 1865, excepting a few days, he was in command of a company in this regiment. In the early part of 1865 he passed the requisite examination, and was recommended for promotion to a captaincy. He was informed that the commission was ordered, but as it was so near the close of the war he never received it, and, conse-quently, was not mustered. He was in the campaign that ended in, and was present at, General Lee's surrender. He was in twelve battles and many skirmishes, but was never wounded.
After the war, in January, 1866, he became a student in Washington and Jefferson College, and remained there two years; at the end of which time he began the study of law with Alexander Wilson, of Washington, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar there, December 13, 1869, after which time he devoted himself exclusively to the practice of his profession.
He was elected a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Washington in February, 1883, and was commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Omaha, Nebraska, in 1887, serving as a member of the judicial committee of that body. The chief glory of his civil life, however, was in the relation of teacher in the Sabbath-school of the First Presbyterian Church beginning in March, 1866, and from 1874 of the Students' Bible class, whose average annual enrollment was about fifty. Over one hundred and twenty-five representatives of this class went into the Christian ministry.
He was a director of the Washington Refining Company, also of the Washington Fire Insurance Company, the First National Bank of Washington, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Washington and Jefferson College.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 231, 325.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 231.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 230.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 325.