E. E. Aiken

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Edwin Edgerton Aiken
Edwin Edgerton Aiken
Edwin Edgerton Aiken
BornMarch 1, 1859
Newington, Connecticut, USA
DiedJanuary 5, 1951(1951-01-05) (aged 91)
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Spouse
Maud Lockwood
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(m. 1892; died 1899)​
Rose Ethel Merrill
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(m. 1902)​

Edwin Edgerton Aiken (March 1, 1859 – January 5, 1951) was an American

Congregationalist
minister and author who spent over four decades as a missionary and educator in China.

Born in Newington, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale University in 1881, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and a member of Skull and Bones.[1] The following year he published The Secret Society System. While not naming Skull and Bones,[2]: 196  he objected to the exclusiveness of societies and fraternities. He wrote: "Real friendship is not the result of formal compacts and societies; the spiritual bond is the true one, covenants of friendship are unnecessary, compacts are made for different ends."[3]

He earned his

Beiping (1885–90), Tianjin (1892–99), Baoding (1902–11), and Yichang (1917-21, 26-27).[1] From 1912-1917 he was on the committee that revised the Mandarin-language translation of the Bible. When finally published, the Mandarin Union Version superseded earlier versions and became the translation of choice for Chinese Christians into the 21st century.[4] He was also editor of the Peking Union Church Bulletin from 1928-1943, was a member of the Peking Oriental Society and held a number of teaching posts.[1][5]

Aiken and his wife left China in 1943 during the

MS Gripsholm.[5]

He was married twice, first in 1892 to Maud Lockwood, who died of scarlet fever in Tianjin in 1899,[6] and second in 1902 to Rose Ethel Merrill.[1] With his first wife he had two sons, Reverend Edwin Edgerton Aiken Jr. and George Lockwood Aiken, and a daughter, Margery,[1] and with his second wife a daughter, Lura Susan Aiken, wife of Erhart Friedrich Petersen.[1][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Obituary Record of Graduates of the Undergraduate Schools Deceased During the Year 1950-1951" (PDF). Yale University. January 1, 1952. p. 6. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
  2. ISBN 0-316-72091-7
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  3. ^ Sheldon, Henry Davidson (1901). Student life and customs. D Appleton and co. pp. 185–186.
  4. ISBN 9789622019973
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  5. ^ a b c "Rev. E. Aiken Dead; Long a Missionary". The New York Times. January 7, 1951. p. 78.
  6. ^ "none". The New York Times. December 8, 1889. p. 7.

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