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FRANK P. ABBOTT |
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DR. FREDERICK M.
AITKEN, M. D., for thirty-five years a member
of the medical profession in Bristol, occupies the
position in public regard to which his years of
practice and ability justly entitle him. He
was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1846, and is of
Scotch lineage, his grandfather, John Aitken,
having been a native of Scotland, whence he came to
America about 1790. He was a shoemaker, as was
also his son, Andrew, who later, however,
turned his attention to merchandising.
Andrew Aitken, father of Dr. Aitken, was
born in New York city and about 1846 removed to
Buffalo, where he engaged in the shoe business.
In 1850 he came to Bristol, Elkhart county, where he
engaged in the boot and shoe business and eventually
conducted a general mercantile, establishment,
having a good and profitable business. He was
a member of the Episcopal church and belonged to the
Masonic lodge, in which he was a past master.
His early political support was given the Republican
party and later he joined the ranks of the
Democracy. He was a man of intelligence,
called to public office on a number of occasions,
and his capable service and sterling personal traits
of character gained him good standing among his
fellow men. He died in 1892. His wife,
who in her maidenhood was Sarah E. Romaine,
was born in New York city, in 1814, and died in
1901. She was a daughter of Jacob and
Elizabeth (Brown) Romaine, the former a school
teacher. The Romaine family is of
English descent. Mr. and Mrs. Aitken
had but two children, the daughter Annie
being now the wife of John Santschi, a music
teacher of Goshen.
Dr. Aitken, who is his sister's senior, was
educated in the Bristol schools, having been brought
to this city when about four years of age. He
read medicine in the office of Dr. F. C. Eckelman
then of Bristol and now of Elkhart, and followed his
preliminary reading by study in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, of New York city, which he
entered in 1864. He was graduated in 1868, as
a physician and surgeon, and for two years practiced
in the eastern metropolis. He then returned to
Bristol, where he has practiced continuously since
1870, and he is one of the best as well as one of
the oldest physicians of the county. He has
always read and studied, carrying his investigation
far and wide into the realms of medical research,
and in practice he has shown ready adaptability of
theories to the practical work of the medical
fraternity.
Dr. Aitken has been married twice. In 1874
he wedded Miss Margaret Rough, who was born
in Pennsylvania, was a daughter of Samuel Rough
and died in 1894, at the age of forty years, leaving
one child, Charles A., who is now a
bookkeeper in Goshen. For his second wife,
Dr. Aitken chose Mrs. Elizabeth (Crocker)
Kleckner, a daughter of Henry Crocker and
the widow of Daniel Kleckner. She was
born in Michigan in 1854. Dr. Aitken
holds membership in the Episcopal church, and his
wife is a communicant of the Lutheran church.
He is an exemplary Mason and for twenty-five years
has been secretary of the lodge in Bristol.
His political allegiance is given the Democratic
party and he has been corporation trustee, clerk and
member of the school board. His interest in
community affairs is deep, sincere and helpful, and
professionally and socially his standing in the
public regard is enviable. |
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LEANDER ANDERSON |
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WILLIAM H. ANDERSON |
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J. B. ANDREWS |
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H. B. APP |
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H. B. APP |
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ETHAN L. ARNOLD |
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ART NOVELTY CO. |
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ELMER ASH |
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