Did Frederick Aiken ever marry?

Did Frederick Aiken ever marry?

He attended Middlebury College where he studied journalism, and later became editor of the Burlington Sentinel. Aiken married Sarah Weston, daughter of a Vermont judge, on June 1, 1857.

Who was the first city editor for the Washington Post?

Frederick Argyll Aiken, the very first city editor of The Washington Post, was a respected journalist who fought to save a young girl born in a brothel. Or he was a disreputable rogue who was no stranger to that very whorehouse. He spied for the Union during the Civil War but was probably a Confederate sympathizer.

Did Frederick Aiken have children?

A descendant of the Aiken family (left) and Clampitt family (right). Sadly, Frederick Aiken had no children of his own and so he has no direct line.

How accurate is the movie The Conspirator?

The Conspirator is an entertaining film which includes more accurate historical detail than most Hollywood productions, but it misses some of the larger historical truths and issues which must be examined to understand America in the 1860s and the legacy of slavery and the Civil War.