Sacramento County Biographies

ANDREW AITKEN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	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. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.