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Judge, Allen County Superior Court, 1900–1902
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Aiken was educated at Methodist College in Fort Wayne and took his law degree at the University of Michigan in 1891, admitted to the Indiana bar that May. He served as county attorney for the poor from 1896 to 1900, then sat on the Allen County Superior Court bench from 1900 to November 1902. In private practice he partnered first with M. V. B. Spencer and then, 1905–1908, with Homer C. Underwood; from 1908 to 1911 he practiced at Warsaw with Judge A. G. Wood before returning to Fort Wayne, with offices in the Swinney Building. He married Lulu Bush on 1 September 1891. A Democrat, he was a 32nd-degree Mason, Shriner and Knight Templar.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.