| Birth: | Sep. 20, 1832
Shrewsbury
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA | | Death: | Dec. 23, 1878
Washington
District of Columbia
District Of Columbia, USA | 
Lincoln Assassination Trial Attorney. A Massachusetts native he moved with his parents to Hardwick, Vermont when he was ten years old. As a young man he studied at Middlebury College from 1855 to 1857. Drawn to journalism he became the editor of the Burlington Sentinel. After he married Sarah Olivia Weston (1846-1900), daughter of Judge Edmund Weston in Randolph, Vermont, he began the study of law. In 1859 he was admitted to the Orange County, Vermont bar, moving to Washington, D.C. in 1860. When the Civil War began he joined the volunteers, becoming an aide with the rank of Captain on the staff of General Winfield S. Hancock. He returned to the law in 1863 when admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States and in the District of Columbia Courts. He was best known for his defense of Mrs. Mary Surratt, accused of conspiracy in the assassination of President Lincoln. His speech in her defense was included in the The World's Best Orations in 1899. In 1868 he returned to the practice journalism. In 1877 he became the City Editor of The Washington Post, a position he held until his death after an illness of two days. He is buried in the North Hill lot containing the grave of Tennessee United States Senator and Secretary of War, John H. Eaton. The Conspirator is a movie about Aiken and his client, Mrs. Surratt. Aiken is played by James McAvoy. Alexis Bledel plays his wife, Sarah. Mary Surratt is played by Robin Wright Penn. (bio by: SLGMSD)
Search Amazon for Frederick Aiken | | | Burial:
Oak Hill Cemetery
Washington
District of Columbia
District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: North Hill, Lot 79 |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: SLGMSD
Record added: Jul 18, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 39589509 |
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