When Henry Allen Aiken was born on 21 June 1887, in Bayfield, Bayfield, Wisconsin, United States, his father, John Richard Aiken, was 19 and his mother, Alexandria Krikova or Verkhoff or Krichoff, was 19. He married Margaret Goslin on 4 April 1910, in Bayfield, Bayfield, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Chassell, Houghton, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Wisconsin, United States in 1977. He died on 21 March 1977, in Red Cliff, Bayfield, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Red Cliff, Bayfield, Wisconsin, United States.