The Biographical Dictionary of America/Aiken, Charles Augustus

AIKEN, Charles Augustus, educator, was born at Manchester, Vt., Oct. 30, 1827, and was graduated from Dartmouth college in 1846, at the age of nineteen, and from Andover theological seminary in 1853. He was professor of Latin in Dartmouth college from 1859 to 1866, and at Princeton till 1869. He became president of Union college June 28, 1870, having discharged the duties of the office during the preceding year. In 1871 he accepted the Stuart professorship of the relation of philosophy and science to the Christian religion, and of Oriental and Old Testament literature in Princeton theological seminary, which he held until his death. He was editor of the Princeton Review, and a contributor to other periodicals. In 1870 he translated and edited "The Proverbs of Solomon Theologically and Homiletically Expounded." He died at Princeton, N.J., Jan. 14, 1892.