Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Class of 1874 John A. Aiken comes of a family which, in its several branches, has for many years been prominent in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. His father, David Aiken, of the class of 1830, after his marriage to Mary Elizabeth Adams of Amherst, Mass., passed his life as a lawyer and on the bench at Greenfield, Mass., where Aiken was born, September 16, 1850. He was fitted at Phillips, Andover, under Dr. Taylor, and, entered Dartmouth with the class of '73. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.