 | Minnesota Historical Society - Dakota Indians - 1920 - 766 pages
...Edinburgh to America in his boyhood ; and about the year 1802 came to the Northwest, being in the service of a trader named John Drew. Aitkin married into an...the American Fur Company, under John Jacob Astor, with headquarters at Sandy Lake, in this county, adjoining the east side of the Mississippi river.... | |
 | Minnesota Historical Society - Minnesota - 1912 - 964 pages
...River, Minn., in 1851. He came to this region when a boy of fifteen; became an Indian trader, and had charge of the Fond du Lac department of the American Fur Company, with headquarters at Sandy Lake. Aitkin county and town are named for him. [41; 114; 241.] AITON, GEORGE... | |
 | Minnesota - 1908 - 416 pages
...legislature, in 1872. This county was named for William A. Aitkin, a Scotch trader with the Ojibway Indians at Sandy lake, in the present east part of...Fond du Lac department of the American Fur Company, making hijB headouarters at Sandy lake. He died in the autumn of 1851,rand is 'buried on. the bank... | |
 | Warren Upham, Rose Barteau Dunlap - Minnesota - 1912 - 946 pages
...River, Minn., in 1851. He came to this region when a boy of fifteen; became an Indian trader, and had charge of the Fond du Lac department of the American Fur Company, with headquarters at Sandy Lake. Aitkin county and town are named for him. [41; 114; 241.] AITON, GEORGE... | |
 | Minnesota Historical Society - Minnesota - 1912 - 1108 pages
...River, Minn., in 1851. He came to this region when a boy of fifteen; became an Indian trader, and had charge of the Fond du Lac department of the American Fur Company, with headquarters at Sandy Lake. Aitkin county and town are named for him. [41; 114; 241.] AITON, GEORGE... | |
 | Minnesota Historical Society - Dakota Indians - 1920 - 758 pages
...Edinburgh to America in his boyhood ; and about the year 1802 came to the Northwest, being in the service of a trader named John Drew. Aitkin married into an...the American Fur Company, under John Jacob Astor, with headquarters at Sandy Lake, in this county, adjoining the east side of the Mississippi river.... | |
 | Minnesota Historical Society - Dakota Indians - 1920 - 760 pages
...Edinburgh to America in his boyhood; and about the year 1802 came to the Northwest, being in the service of a trader named John Drew. Aitkin married into an...the American Fur Company, under John Jacob Astor, with headquarters at Sandy Lake, in this county, adjoining the east side of the Mississippi river.... | |
 | Joseph Nathan Kane, Charles Curry Aiken - History - 2005 - 568 pages
...changed 1872; organized February 6, 1885. William Alexander Aitkin (1787-1851). Fur trader, worked for the Fond du Lac department of the American Fur Company under John Jacob Astor. Alachua Florida Gainesville 874 sq. mi. 217,955 181,596 151,348 104,764 74,074 57,026 December 29,... | |
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Northwest, being in the service of a trader named John Drew. Aitkin married into an influential Indian family; was soon a trader on his own account; and rapidly advanced until in 1831 he took charge of the Fond du Lac department of the American Fur Company,... 