From April 1927 Amador County Federation of Women's Clubs publication. (Edward Miller,701, added this on 18 May 2011):
Robert Aitken was born in Glasgow, in 1826. For generations his ancestors were Burgesses of that city, but originally they came from the Highlands, where their family name was Darroch (of the clan of McDonald). After Culloden, the Darroch of the day, escaped to the Lowlands, he took the common name Aitken, which is a translation of the Gaelic Darroch (the oak).
Robert Aitken was well educated but longed for adventure and at 18 set sail for America. At St. Louis he was bookkeeper for a German lumber firm, learned the language and went as first sergeant in a company of German volunteers, to the Mexican War. Quick to learn languages, he came back speaking Spanish and French fluently.
In 1851, he journeyed to California and in Sacramento became a partner in an iron foundry. Here he married Wilhelmina Depinau, a native of Hanover, Germany.
Her sister was the wife of Albert Koch.
Tina Aitken Kane was born in Sacramento, as was a little daughter who died in infancy.
Both families moved to Jackson and for years were active in every movement, religious, social and political, for the up-building of the town.
Mrs. Aitken and Tina went to Glasgow by the Panama route, and years later, Tina journeyed again to her father's people, where she was educated, receiving the training which placed her in the front ranks of educators.
Robert Aitken, noted astronomer, was born in Jackson on December 31, 1864. There were three other brothers, natives of Jackson. Tina and Louis are dead.
In Jackson, Mr. Aitken was associated with Sam Bright in business. He was county supervisor for several terms, and a member of several lodges.
He sleeps beside his wife and children, among the friends of former days. His gravestone in Jackson, Amador, California, is engraved "Native of Glasgow, Scotland". It also has a broken pillar, indicating his membership as a Mason. More About Robert Aitken: 1844, came to America; December 11, 1849; Left Peoria, Illinois for California; May 15, 1850 Arrived in San Francisco via Panama; August 17, 1855 Became a Naturalized Citizen; 1858 Moved to Amador County, California; Bet. 1877-1882, County Supervisor.
Robert & Wilhelmina are listed in the US 1870, 1880 US Census, Township 1, Amador, California.
Robert Aitken was born in Glasgow, in 1826. For generations his ancestors were Burgesses of that city, but originally they came from the Highlands, where their family name was Darroch (of the clan of McDonald). After Culloden, the Darroch of the day, escaped to the Lowlands, he took the common name Aitken, which is a translation of the Gaelic Darroch (the oak).
Robert Aitken was well educated but longed for adventure and at 18 set sail for America. At St. Louis he was bookkeeper for a German lumber firm, learned the language and went as first sergeant in a company of German volunteers, to the Mexican War. Quick to learn languages, he came back speaking Spanish and French fluently.
In 1851, he journeyed to California and in Sacramento became a partner in an iron foundry. Here he married Wilhelmina Depinau, a native of Hanover, Germany.
Her sister was the wife of Albert Koch.
Tina Aitken Kane was born in Sacramento, as was a little daughter who died in infancy.
Both families moved to Jackson and for years were active in every movement, religious, social and political, for the up-building of the town.
Mrs. Aitken and Tina went to Glasgow by the Panama route, and years later, Tina journeyed again to her father's people, where she was educated, receiving the training which placed her in the front ranks of educators.
Robert Aitken, noted astronomer, was born in Jackson on December 31, 1864. There were three other brothers, natives of Jackson. Tina and Louis are dead.
In Jackson, Mr. Aitken was associated with Sam Bright in business. He was county supervisor for several terms, and a member of several lodges.
He sleeps beside his wife and children, among the friends of former days. His gravestone in Jackson, Amador, California, is engraved "Native of Glasgow, Scotland". It also has a broken pillar, indicating his membership as a Mason. More About Robert Aitken: 1844, came to America; December 11, 1849; Left Peoria, Illinois for California; May 15, 1850 Arrived in San Francisco via Panama; August 17, 1855 Became a Naturalized Citizen; 1858 Moved to Amador County, California; Bet. 1877-1882, County Supervisor.
Robert & Wilhelmina are listed in the US 1870, 1880 US Census, Township 1, Amador, California.
From April 1927 Amador County Federation of Women's Clubs publication. (Edward Miller,701, added this on 18 May 2011):
Robert Aitken was born in Glasgow, in 1826. For generations his ancestors were Burgesses of that city, but originally they came from the Highlands, where their family name was Darroch (of the clan of McDonald). After Culloden, the Darroch of the day, escaped to the Lowlands, he took the common name Aitken, which is a translation of the Gaelic Darroch (the oak).
Robert Aitken was well educated but longed for adventure and at 18 set sail for America. At St. Louis he was bookkeeper for a German lumber firm, learned the language and went as first sergeant in a company of German volunteers, to the Mexican War. Quick to learn languages, he came back speaking Spanish and French fluently.
In 1851, he journeyed to California and in Sacramento became a partner in an iron foundry. Here he married Wilhelmina Depinau, a native of Hanover, Germany.
Her sister was the wife of Albert Koch.
Tina Aitken Kane was born in Sacramento, as was a little daughter who died in infancy.
Both families moved to Jackson and for years were active in every movement, religious, social and political, for the up-building of the town.
Mrs. Aitken and Tina went to Glasgow by the Panama route, and years later, Tina journeyed again to her father's people, where she was educated, receiving the training which placed her in the front ranks of educators.
Robert Aitken, noted astronomer, was born in Jackson on December 31, 1864. There were three other brothers, natives of Jackson. Tina and Louis are dead.
In Jackson, Mr. Aitken was associated with Sam Bright in business. He was county supervisor for several terms, and a member of several lodges.
He sleeps beside his wife and children, among the friends of former days. His gravestone in Jackson, Amador, California, is engraved "Native of Glasgow, Scotland". It also has a broken pillar, indicating his membership as a Mason. More About Robert Aitken: 1844, came to America; December 11, 1849; Left Peoria, Illinois for California; May 15, 1850 Arrived in San Francisco via Panama; August 17, 1855 Became a Naturalized Citizen; 1858 Moved to Amador County, California; Bet. 1877-1882, County Supervisor.
Robert & Wilhelmina are listed in the US 1870, 1880 US Census, Township 1, Amador, California.
Robert Aitken was born in Glasgow, in 1826. For generations his ancestors were Burgesses of that city, but originally they came from the Highlands, where their family name was Darroch (of the clan of McDonald). After Culloden, the Darroch of the day, escaped to the Lowlands, he took the common name Aitken, which is a translation of the Gaelic Darroch (the oak).
Robert Aitken was well educated but longed for adventure and at 18 set sail for America. At St. Louis he was bookkeeper for a German lumber firm, learned the language and went as first sergeant in a company of German volunteers, to the Mexican War. Quick to learn languages, he came back speaking Spanish and French fluently.
In 1851, he journeyed to California and in Sacramento became a partner in an iron foundry. Here he married Wilhelmina Depinau, a native of Hanover, Germany.
Her sister was the wife of Albert Koch.
Tina Aitken Kane was born in Sacramento, as was a little daughter who died in infancy.
Both families moved to Jackson and for years were active in every movement, religious, social and political, for the up-building of the town.
Mrs. Aitken and Tina went to Glasgow by the Panama route, and years later, Tina journeyed again to her father's people, where she was educated, receiving the training which placed her in the front ranks of educators.
Robert Aitken, noted astronomer, was born in Jackson on December 31, 1864. There were three other brothers, natives of Jackson. Tina and Louis are dead.
In Jackson, Mr. Aitken was associated with Sam Bright in business. He was county supervisor for several terms, and a member of several lodges.
He sleeps beside his wife and children, among the friends of former days. His gravestone in Jackson, Amador, California, is engraved "Native of Glasgow, Scotland". It also has a broken pillar, indicating his membership as a Mason. More About Robert Aitken: 1844, came to America; December 11, 1849; Left Peoria, Illinois for California; May 15, 1850 Arrived in San Francisco via Panama; August 17, 1855 Became a Naturalized Citizen; 1858 Moved to Amador County, California; Bet. 1877-1882, County Supervisor.
Robert & Wilhelmina are listed in the US 1870, 1880 US Census, Township 1, Amador, California.
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