AITKEN, ANDREW, was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1824, and emigrated to Canada in 1832. In 1817 he went to Lawrence, Massachusetts, and superintended the stone-cutting for a dam and mill. The next year he went to Holyoke in the same business. In 1849 he came to California, and mined a year on Condemned Bar, American River. He then commenced teaming to the mines. In 1852 engaged in the stone and marble business, and is now the oldest established in that business on the coast. He opened a marble quarry and erected a mill at Indian Springs, El Dorado County. Mr. Aitken has been Trustee of the Fire Department and President of the Board of Delegates. He has the leading marble establishment outside of San Francisco, which he has built up by strict attention to business; has monuments and grave-stones in all parts of the State. He is now the senior of the firm of Aitken & Fish, No. 617 K street, Sacramento. In 1860 he married Miss Jessie Davidson, a native of Scotland, who died in 1868. He again married, Miss Hattie C. Marsh, in 1869. He has one son and two daughters. One son died in 1869.


Sacrtamentoi County Biographies, 1880, page 279