Bartholomew County IN Archives Biographies.....Aikin, Lewis 1852 - 
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Author: B. F. Bowen (1904)

LEWIS AIKIN.

   Bartholomew county has many citizens who have spent their entire lives here,
and this fact is indicative of the advantages which she offers to her people and
of their love for their native district. Mr. Aikin was born on a farm in Flat
Rock township on the 4th of October, 1852, and is a son of Daniel and Sarah
(Stoughton) Aikin. His father's birth occurred in Kentucky in the year 1817, and
at an early day he came to Indiana, settling first in Columbus township,
Bartholomew county, in the twenties. Here he formed the acquaintance of Miss
Sarah Stoughton, who was born in Ohio and had located here in pioneer times.
They always lived here, becoming the leading and influential citizens of their
community. The paternal gradfather of the subject, Samuel Aikin, was likewise a
farmer of Bartholomew county, entering one hundred and sixty acres of land on
Haw Creek, Columbus township, where he cleared and improved an excellent farm.
He was a leader in the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he was active and
influential. Daniel Aikin, the father of Lewis, always carried on agricultural
pursuits and was a wide-awake, energetic business man, but his death occurred in
1857, when he was only forty years of age. In political life he had been active
and always kept well informed on the questions and issues of the day, yet he
never sought public office. He voted with the Whig party until the organization
of the new Republican party, when he joined its ranks and voted for its first
presidential candidate, John C. Fremont, in 1856. Unto him and his wife were
born six children four reaching maturity, namely: Elizabeth, who is the wife of
Jacob McQueen; Catherine, the wife of Hardin C. Ferry; Jane, wife of Jacob
Rhule, and Lewis.

   In taking up the personal history of Lewis Aikin, we present to our readers
the life record of one who is widely and favorably known in Bartholomew county,
for he has always lived within its borders. His social nature has made him a
popular man and his devotion to the general good classes him among the valued
citizens of the community. In business affairs he has made a creditable record,
and today he is the owner of one hundred and eighteen acres of valuable land,
all of which is under cultivation, the splendidly improved fields returning to
him golden harvests in reward for the care and labor he bestows. He also raises
considerable stock, making a specialty of shorthorn cattle and Duroc Jersey
hogs. He likewise raises some horses, which he uses for farm purposes. His place
is well improved and he is justly accounted one of the practical, enterprising
and successful agriculturists of his community.

   July 27, 1876, Mr. Aikin was united in marriage to Miss Martha Talkington and
they are now the parents of seven children: Daniel, who, graduated in 1902 in
the Central Normal at Danville, Indiana, taught one year in the normal school at
Douglas, Georgia, and is now a student in the State University at Bloomington,
Indiana; Frank B. is a telegraph operator at Minot, North Dakota; Virginia,
Georgia, Welcome, Willie and Etta are still at home. In his political views Mr.
Aikin is a Republican and keeps thoroughly informed concerning the issues of the
day, yet has never been an active politician in the sense of office seeking. He
holds membership in the Haw Patch Christian church and is a man of many strong
traits of character, of social disposition and of cordial manner, his strong
qualities being such as to win for him many friends.


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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY
INDIANA

INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GOVERNORS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF INDIANA

ILLUSTRATED

1904

B. F. Bowen PUBLISHER


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