HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by William H. 
Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882.  Reprinted by Southern 
Historical Press, Easley, SC, 1979.
D. A. AIKIN, distillery, Lexington, was born in 1832, in Oswego, N. Y.; 
he left there in 1848 and located in Ypsilanti, Mich., with his parents, 
and at the age of twenty years entered a grocery store in Detroit, as 
book-keeper[sic], where he remained until the beginning of the late war, 
when he enlisted and was assigned to staff duty, as Captain in the 
Commissary of Subsistence, U.S.A., and was for some time stationed at 
Washington, D. C., and at Camp Nelson, Ky., during 1863-64.
After the close of the war, he, with Campbell, Curley & Co., built a 
distillery near Camp Nelson, where he remained until 1874, when he removed 
to Lexington, and became proprietor of Aikin's Distillery, located at the 
junction of the Cincinnati Southern and the Louisville, Cincinnati & 
Lexington Railroads, one mile from the city.
Aikin Campbell Curley
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NY Ypsilanti-Washtenaw-MI Detroit-Oakland-MI Washington-DC

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