Born Blair Furnace on March 12, 1871 he married Miss Virginia Desert (Henderson) Aiken he was survived by his wife and the following children Mrs. Ruth Stains whom he made his home and where he died Richard Aiken of Altoona Miss Hilda N. Aiken of Cresson, Mrs. Jacob L. Teeter of Johnstown and Mrs. Margaret Velietta of Altoona six children preceded him in death. He is survived by one sister Mrs. J.B. McGarvey of South Altoona. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and the Winnebago Tribe #35 Improved Order of Red Man for forty years.
Altoona Mirror July 18, 1927 pg. 20... added by Annie
There Children notes:
Ruth K. (Aikins) Staines bn. Dec. 2, 1872 d. April 3, 1950 died and buried at Seattle Washington
Daughter of Perry and Virginia--Amy married Reuben Diehl she was b. Aug. 31, 1876 d. Nov. 30, 1926 buried with her husband at Rose Hill.
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January 25th, 1911, Altoona Mirror, page 1
The other man to retire on Feb. 1 is Oliver Perry Aiken of 2316 Dysart street, a well-known blacksmith in the machine shop department. Mr. Aiken, who was born in Snyder township, this county, on his father’s farm, on July 29, 1845, started to work earlier than most boys do, he beginning his life work when only 10 years old, in the employ of the late Martin Bell, uncle of the late Judge Bell, when that gentleman conducted the farm and the old blast furnace at what was then known as Elizabeth Furnace.
Mr. Aiken tells how, with many other boys, most of whom are long since dead and gone, he picked stone in the furnace and worked on the Bell farm, old Mr. Bell at that time making the boys work hard dining the summer, but insisting on every one of them going to school during the winter and paying them their wages while they were in school. He worked at the furnace until 1862, when he moved to Altoona and went to work for John Campbell, then a well known Pennsylvania railroad contractor. He stayed with him only a few months, later becoming a section hand on the railroad and following that work until, until, in 1864, after the burning of Chambersburg by the Confederates, he took part in the famous "Chicken Raid,” the local expedition of old men and boys sent out from here during Lee’s second invasion of Pennsylvania.
After his brief soldier experience, he entered the shops, in the passenger car shop, under Foreman John P. Levan, where he worked four years a sweeper, then being made a helper in the machine shop blacksmith shop, under the late George Hawksworth. He worked until the panic of 1873, when the company retrenched and he had to go to work in McCauley’s old shops, at Broad Avenue and Twenty-seventh street, working there until they were abandoned, in 1878, when be returned to the blacksmith shop and has worked there, for the company, ever since.
About seven years ago, while wheeling a barrow up an incline near the shop, he fell, injuring his side and rupturing himself, and he has never been strong since. Accordingly. having reached the age of 65, he will accept voluntary retirement and become a pensioner on the 1st of the month.
Contributor: Jon Gottshall (48800458)
Altoona Mirror July 18, 1927 pg. 20... added by Annie
There Children notes:
Ruth K. (Aikins) Staines bn. Dec. 2, 1872 d. April 3, 1950 died and buried at Seattle Washington
Daughter of Perry and Virginia--Amy married Reuben Diehl she was b. Aug. 31, 1876 d. Nov. 30, 1926 buried with her husband at Rose Hill.
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Suggested Edit
Find A Grave contributor, Jon Gottshall has made the following suggested edits.
January 25th, 1911, Altoona Mirror, page 1
The other man to retire on Feb. 1 is Oliver Perry Aiken of 2316 Dysart street, a well-known blacksmith in the machine shop department. Mr. Aiken, who was born in Snyder township, this county, on his father’s farm, on July 29, 1845, started to work earlier than most boys do, he beginning his life work when only 10 years old, in the employ of the late Martin Bell, uncle of the late Judge Bell, when that gentleman conducted the farm and the old blast furnace at what was then known as Elizabeth Furnace.
Mr. Aiken tells how, with many other boys, most of whom are long since dead and gone, he picked stone in the furnace and worked on the Bell farm, old Mr. Bell at that time making the boys work hard dining the summer, but insisting on every one of them going to school during the winter and paying them their wages while they were in school. He worked at the furnace until 1862, when he moved to Altoona and went to work for John Campbell, then a well known Pennsylvania railroad contractor. He stayed with him only a few months, later becoming a section hand on the railroad and following that work until, until, in 1864, after the burning of Chambersburg by the Confederates, he took part in the famous "Chicken Raid,” the local expedition of old men and boys sent out from here during Lee’s second invasion of Pennsylvania.
After his brief soldier experience, he entered the shops, in the passenger car shop, under Foreman John P. Levan, where he worked four years a sweeper, then being made a helper in the machine shop blacksmith shop, under the late George Hawksworth. He worked until the panic of 1873, when the company retrenched and he had to go to work in McCauley’s old shops, at Broad Avenue and Twenty-seventh street, working there until they were abandoned, in 1878, when be returned to the blacksmith shop and has worked there, for the company, ever since.
About seven years ago, while wheeling a barrow up an incline near the shop, he fell, injuring his side and rupturing himself, and he has never been strong since. Accordingly. having reached the age of 65, he will accept voluntary retirement and become a pensioner on the 1st of the month.
Contributor: Jon Gottshall (48800458)
Born Blair Furnace on March 12, 1871 he married Miss Virginia Desert (Henderson) Aiken he was survived by his wife and the following children Mrs. Ruth Stains whom he made his home and where he died Richard Aiken of Altoona Miss Hilda N. Aiken of Cresson, Mrs. Jacob L. Teeter of Johnstown and Mrs. Margaret Velietta of Altoona six children preceded him in death. He is survived by one sister Mrs. J.B. McGarvey of South Altoona. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and the Winnebago Tribe #35 Improved Order of Red Man for forty years.
Altoona Mirror July 18, 1927 pg. 20... added by Annie
There Children notes:
Ruth K. (Aikins) Staines bn. Dec. 2, 1872 d. April 3, 1950 died and buried at Seattle Washington
Daughter of Perry and Virginia--Amy married Reuben Diehl she was b. Aug. 31, 1876 d. Nov. 30, 1926 buried with her husband at Rose Hill.
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Suggested Edit
Find A Grave contributor, Jon Gottshall has made the following suggested edits.
January 25th, 1911, Altoona Mirror, page 1
The other man to retire on Feb. 1 is Oliver Perry Aiken of 2316 Dysart street, a well-known blacksmith in the machine shop department. Mr. Aiken, who was born in Snyder township, this county, on his father’s farm, on July 29, 1845, started to work earlier than most boys do, he beginning his life work when only 10 years old, in the employ of the late Martin Bell, uncle of the late Judge Bell, when that gentleman conducted the farm and the old blast furnace at what was then known as Elizabeth Furnace.
Mr. Aiken tells how, with many other boys, most of whom are long since dead and gone, he picked stone in the furnace and worked on the Bell farm, old Mr. Bell at that time making the boys work hard dining the summer, but insisting on every one of them going to school during the winter and paying them their wages while they were in school. He worked at the furnace until 1862, when he moved to Altoona and went to work for John Campbell, then a well known Pennsylvania railroad contractor. He stayed with him only a few months, later becoming a section hand on the railroad and following that work until, until, in 1864, after the burning of Chambersburg by the Confederates, he took part in the famous "Chicken Raid,” the local expedition of old men and boys sent out from here during Lee’s second invasion of Pennsylvania.
After his brief soldier experience, he entered the shops, in the passenger car shop, under Foreman John P. Levan, where he worked four years a sweeper, then being made a helper in the machine shop blacksmith shop, under the late George Hawksworth. He worked until the panic of 1873, when the company retrenched and he had to go to work in McCauley’s old shops, at Broad Avenue and Twenty-seventh street, working there until they were abandoned, in 1878, when be returned to the blacksmith shop and has worked there, for the company, ever since.
About seven years ago, while wheeling a barrow up an incline near the shop, he fell, injuring his side and rupturing himself, and he has never been strong since. Accordingly. having reached the age of 65, he will accept voluntary retirement and become a pensioner on the 1st of the month.
Contributor: Jon Gottshall (48800458)
Altoona Mirror July 18, 1927 pg. 20... added by Annie
There Children notes:
Ruth K. (Aikins) Staines bn. Dec. 2, 1872 d. April 3, 1950 died and buried at Seattle Washington
Daughter of Perry and Virginia--Amy married Reuben Diehl she was b. Aug. 31, 1876 d. Nov. 30, 1926 buried with her husband at Rose Hill.
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Suggested Edit
Find A Grave contributor, Jon Gottshall has made the following suggested edits.
January 25th, 1911, Altoona Mirror, page 1
The other man to retire on Feb. 1 is Oliver Perry Aiken of 2316 Dysart street, a well-known blacksmith in the machine shop department. Mr. Aiken, who was born in Snyder township, this county, on his father’s farm, on July 29, 1845, started to work earlier than most boys do, he beginning his life work when only 10 years old, in the employ of the late Martin Bell, uncle of the late Judge Bell, when that gentleman conducted the farm and the old blast furnace at what was then known as Elizabeth Furnace.
Mr. Aiken tells how, with many other boys, most of whom are long since dead and gone, he picked stone in the furnace and worked on the Bell farm, old Mr. Bell at that time making the boys work hard dining the summer, but insisting on every one of them going to school during the winter and paying them their wages while they were in school. He worked at the furnace until 1862, when he moved to Altoona and went to work for John Campbell, then a well known Pennsylvania railroad contractor. He stayed with him only a few months, later becoming a section hand on the railroad and following that work until, until, in 1864, after the burning of Chambersburg by the Confederates, he took part in the famous "Chicken Raid,” the local expedition of old men and boys sent out from here during Lee’s second invasion of Pennsylvania.
After his brief soldier experience, he entered the shops, in the passenger car shop, under Foreman John P. Levan, where he worked four years a sweeper, then being made a helper in the machine shop blacksmith shop, under the late George Hawksworth. He worked until the panic of 1873, when the company retrenched and he had to go to work in McCauley’s old shops, at Broad Avenue and Twenty-seventh street, working there until they were abandoned, in 1878, when be returned to the blacksmith shop and has worked there, for the company, ever since.
About seven years ago, while wheeling a barrow up an incline near the shop, he fell, injuring his side and rupturing himself, and he has never been strong since. Accordingly. having reached the age of 65, he will accept voluntary retirement and become a pensioner on the 1st of the month.
Contributor: Jon Gottshall (48800458)
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