When William James Aitken was born on 15 July 1862, in Nevadaville, Gilpin, Colorado, United States, his father, James Aitken, was 32 and his mother, Mary Ferguson, was 31. He lived in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 11 September 1867, at the age of 5, and was buried in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Aitken, a pet form of Adam . Compare Aiken and Atkin .
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