BIO:  Alexander S. Aiken, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Lower Chanceford Township, Pg 121

REV. ALEXANDER S. AIKEN, pastor of Airville United Presbyterian Church, was born 
February 3, 1840, near the village of Princeton, Lawrence Co., Penn.  His 
elementary education was received in the schools of his native township.  In 1865 
he entered the Westminster College, Penn., and graduated from that institution in 
1870.  He completed his theological course in Allegheny City.  April 15, 1873, he 
was licensed to preach, and was ordained April 29, 1875, by the presbytery of Big 
Spring, Penn.  At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the Sixteenth Pennsylvania 
Cavalry, was promoted to sergeant of Company 1, and served until the end of the 
war.  January 1, 1875, Rev. Mr. Aiken became pastor of the congregation over 
which he now presides with such sigual ability and success.  He was joined in 
marriage April 5, 1882, with Miss Mary J., daughter of George and Sarah (Cummins) 
Porter, of Huntingdon County, Penn.  They now reside in the newly erected 
parsonage of the Airville congregation.  Rev. Mr. Aiken is finely educated, and 
is a gentleman worthy of encouraging success in the ministry.