David H. Aiken was born in Black River Twp., Lorain Co., OH.

He was the son of Irad O. Aiken and Rosa F. Case.

David married Rubie B. Rogers in 1897.

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Biography, Harriet Taylor Upton, 1910, "History of the Western Reserve," (Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York), pp. 1283-1284

DAVID H. AIKEN.—It has been given Mr. Aiken to attain success and prestige as one of the representative members of the bar of his native county, and he is now established in the practice of his profession in Lorain, where he is recognized as a liberal and progressive citizen and where he has various capitalistic interests of important order. He is one of the able representatives of the younger generation of the bar of the historic old Western Reserve, and this fact is the more gratifying to note when it is stated that he is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of this favored section of the Buckeye state.

Mr. Aiken was born on the parental farmstead in Black River township, Lorain county, Ohio, on the 16th of December, 1872, and is a son of Irad O. and Rose F. (Case) Aiken. The father was born in the state of Wisconsin, in 1842, and was a son of William H. and Hannah (Porter) Aiken, the former of whom was born in Connecticut, a son of Irad O. Aiken (1st), who was likewise born in Connecticut, a representative of a family of English lineage, that was founded in New England in the early colonial era of our national history. Irad O. Aiken (1st) became the founder of the family in the Western Reserve, where he took up his abode in the pioneer days, and his son, William H, was a boy at the time of the family removal to the wilds of Ohio and settlement in Cuyahoga county, whence they later removed to Amherst township, Lorain county, where Irad O. Aiken and his wife passed the residue of their lives.

William H. Aiken was reared to manhood in Lorain county, and there was eventually solemnized his marriage to Miss Hannah Porterdaughter of Richard Porter, another of the sterling pioneers of the Western Reserve. He removed to the state of Wisconsin, where he remained about two years, within which his son, Irad O., father of the subject of this review, was born, and he then returned with his family to Lorain county, purchasing a farm in Black River township, where both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, secure in the high esteem of all who knew them. Irad O. Aiken, father of him whose name initiates this review, was reared and educated in Black River township, and there his entire active career was one of close and successful identification with the great basic industry of agriculture. He improved one of the valuable farms of Lorain county, was a man of prominence and influence in his township, and was one of the highly esteemed citizens of the county, where he continued to reside until his death, in September, 1907, at the age of sixty-five years. He was a Republican in his political proclivities. He attended the Methodist church, of which his wife is a member and has long been identified as a zealous worker. She now resides on a farm near Lorain, Ohio. David H. was their only child. Mrs. Rose F. (Case) Aiken, mother of the subject of this sketch, was born in Amherst township, Lorain county, Ohio, in the year 1848, and her parents were numbered among the honored pioneers of that township, whither they immigrated from the state of Connecticut.

David H. Aiken passed his boyhood and early youth on the old home farm in Black River township, and his preliminary education was secured in the district school near his home, while he early began to aid in the work of the farm. After completing the curriculum of the local school he continued his studies in the high school in the village of Amherst, and was graduated as a member of the class of 1892. He thereafter took a special course of study in Adelbert College, in the city of Cleveland, and after leaving this institution he was matriculated in the law department of Western Reserve University, in the same city. He completed the prescribed technical course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1894. duly receiving his wellearned degree of Bachelor of Laws and being admitted to the bar of his native state in June of the same year.

In initiating the practical work of his chosen profession Mr. Aiken located in the attractive and thriving little city of Lorain, where he

became a member of the law firm of Johnston, Leonard & Aiken, in which his associates were Charles W. Johnston and James H. Leonard. This alliance continued for one year, and since that time Mr. Aiken has conducted an individual practice of general order. He has well proved his powers as a trial lawyer and a well fortified counselor, and his clientage is of representative order, drawn to him by reason of his ability and his personal popularity. He is a member of the Lorain Board of Commerce, of which he was vice-president in 1909, and he is also vice-president of the Penfield Avenue Savings Bank and of the Wood Lumber Company, on Penfield avenue.

In politics Mr. Aiken is arrayed as a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor ; his religious views are in harmony with the tenets of the Congregational church, and in the time-honored Masonic fraternity he has attained to the thirty-second degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which connection he is identified with the Lake Erie Consistory in the city of Cleveland. His York Rite affiliations are in his home city and include membership in Holy Rood Commandery, Knights Templar.

In 1897 Mr. Aiken was united in marriage to Miss Ruby B. Rogers, who was born and reared in Willoughby, Lake county. Ohio, a daughter of Leona Rogers. Mr. and Mrs. Aiken have one child—Mildred B.