San Diego County Biographies

JOHN A. AITKEN

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JOHN A. AITKEN, LL.B., Judge of Department 1 of the Superior Court of San Diego 
County, is a gentleman of high social and professional standing, having and 
deserving the highest esteem of all who know him. His selection for the above 
named office by the people was wise in the extreme, as his record shows him 
eminently adapted to the requirements of the office, which he has filled with 
credit and honor to himself and to the satisfaction of the public at large. A 
gentleman in the full sense and significance of the term, imbued with the 
highest principles of honor, and possessing great legal knowledge and 
experience, his future may be foretold, as the open page in his history of his 
past career may be read today, and always without a blot to mar the purity of 
the issue.
	Judge Aitken was born in San Francisco, his parent having been among the 
argonauts of the Golden State. When old enough he attended the public schools of 
that city, until he arrived at the age of twelve, when, becoming imbued with the 
spirit of adventure he shipped before the mast for New York; returning to the 
city of his birth after some years of wandering, he settled down to hard work 
and after a severe course of study entered the University of California, from 
the law department of which he graduated with the highest honors, and at once 
entered into the practice of the law, in which he has made for himself a name 
and professional reputation enviable, honorable and creditable in the extreme. 
	In his domestic ties the Judge has been fortunate, being the happy possessor of 
a wife and two children, to whom he is greatly attached; with them all the spare 
moments which can be snatched from a busy life are spent. It is said of his son, 
Master Frank, an exceptionally bright boy of twelve, that he is the youngest 
editor in the United States, he being the presiding pen-pusher of the 
"Middletown Electric Light," a bi-monthly paper published by the school children 
of San Diego.
	During his residence in San Francisco and in San Diego , Judge Aitken has become 
widely known. His great ability, his recognized firmness of character and 
independence of spirits are everywhere acknowledge by the people, and the press, 
ever ready to acknowledge merit, have characterized him as one of the youngest 
band best judges on the Pacific coast.
 
An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San 
Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - 
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. pp 371-372