A poet, younger brother of Conrad Potter Aiken #2624, a famous poet.
m. 24 Oct 1928 Elizabeth Herbert Smith #69720490
Children adopted in 1901 by Frederick Winslow Taylor 11349052 & his wife Louise M Spooner, #91324812, a distant relative, Great Great Aunt, after death of their parents. Without warning or apparent cause, his Doctor father became increasingly irascible, unpredictable, and violent. Then, early in the morning of February 27, 1901, he murdered his wife and shot himself. Conrad heard the shots and discovered their bodies @11yrs old.
Aiken had 3 younger siblings, Kempton, Robert and Elizabeth.
Reason for shooting is unknown,
Kempton, Robert and Elizabeth (all adopted orphans and younger siblings) of Aiken descent with their infamous brother Conrad Potter Aiken Buried @Thunderbolt, Chatham, Georgia, United States #2624 'Bonaventure Cemetery' renamed from the Evergreen Cemetery Company sold early 1900's.
After their parents' deaths, they were adopted by Frederick Winslow Taylor and his wife Louise, a distant relative, and took Taylor's last name.
Kempton was known as K. P. A. Taylor (Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor) and Robert was known as Robert P. A. Taylor (Robert Potter Aiken Taylor b.bet 1895-1901).
Elizabeth Potter Aiken Taylor b.bet 1895-1901
Kempton helped establish the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A. Taylor, a poet and younger brother of Conrad Aiken.
Massachusetts, Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990 SCHOOLS, DIRECTORIES & CHURCH HISTORIES
NAME: Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor
BIRTH: Georgia, USA
RESIDENCE: Panama
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 MILITARY
NAME: Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor
BIRTH: Georgia
RESIDENCE:,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
WWII draft card 1942
NAME: Robert Potter Aiken Taylor
BIRTH: Georgia, USA
RESIDENCE: Rhode Island, USA
Brother Conrad:
m. Jessie Akin (McDonald)1889-1970 (81)
Wife of Martin Armstrong and Conrad Aiken
Mother of Jane Aiken Hodge; Joan Delano Aiken MBE and John Aiken
At Harvard he shared a class and developed a close friendship T. S. Eliot, with whom he edited the Advocate. Aiken was a member of the class of 1912, in the same era as Eliot, Walter Lippman, Van Wyck Brooks, and E. E. Cummings.
Aiken was the son of wealthy New Englanders, William Ford and Anna (Potter) Aiken, who had moved to Savannah, Georgia when Conrad was a child. His father was an established and respected doctor who specialized in brain surgery. But rather suddenly, and without warning or reason, the good doctor turned violent and dark.
House of Dust 1920
http://www.house-crazy.com/murder-scene-for-sale-conrad-aikens-childhood-home/
In the early morning hours of February 27, 1901, an eleven year old Conrad listened from his bedroom as his parents argued. He then heard his father count to three before shooting his wife and himself. Conrad ran from his room to find the deceased bodies of his parents.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1246/1246-h/1246-h.htm
In a weird event, returned to Savannah and purchased the house next door to where his parents died.
Robert was known as Robert P. A. Taylor (Robert Potter Aiken Taylor).
Kempton helped establish the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
Brother:
Robert Potter Aiken Taylor
24 Mar 1895
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
17 Mar 1988 (aged 92)
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
1989, Jane, Joan and their brother John wrote a small book "Conrad Aiken Remembered."
John wrote that his father never once talked about the family slaughter. His daughters remembered he had warned them not to have children because the family was cursed. His sister, Elizabeth had gone mad in her teens. When Aiken was dying — in Savannah, where he had lived next door to his childhood home — he thought Jane, his daughter, was his sister. He told her "Never forget, Elizabeth, our parents were wonderful people.'"
m. 24 Oct 1928 Elizabeth Herbert Smith #69720490
Children adopted in 1901 by Frederick Winslow Taylor 11349052 & his wife Louise M Spooner, #91324812, a distant relative, Great Great Aunt, after death of their parents. Without warning or apparent cause, his Doctor father became increasingly irascible, unpredictable, and violent. Then, early in the morning of February 27, 1901, he murdered his wife and shot himself. Conrad heard the shots and discovered their bodies @11yrs old.
Aiken had 3 younger siblings, Kempton, Robert and Elizabeth.
Reason for shooting is unknown,
Kempton, Robert and Elizabeth (all adopted orphans and younger siblings) of Aiken descent with their infamous brother Conrad Potter Aiken Buried @Thunderbolt, Chatham, Georgia, United States #2624 'Bonaventure Cemetery' renamed from the Evergreen Cemetery Company sold early 1900's.
After their parents' deaths, they were adopted by Frederick Winslow Taylor and his wife Louise, a distant relative, and took Taylor's last name.
Kempton was known as K. P. A. Taylor (Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor) and Robert was known as Robert P. A. Taylor (Robert Potter Aiken Taylor b.bet 1895-1901).
Elizabeth Potter Aiken Taylor b.bet 1895-1901
Kempton helped establish the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A. Taylor, a poet and younger brother of Conrad Aiken.
Massachusetts, Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990 SCHOOLS, DIRECTORIES & CHURCH HISTORIES
NAME: Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor
BIRTH: Georgia, USA
RESIDENCE: Panama
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 MILITARY
NAME: Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor
BIRTH: Georgia
RESIDENCE:,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
WWII draft card 1942
NAME: Robert Potter Aiken Taylor
BIRTH: Georgia, USA
RESIDENCE: Rhode Island, USA
Brother Conrad:
m. Jessie Akin (McDonald)1889-1970 (81)
Wife of Martin Armstrong and Conrad Aiken
Mother of Jane Aiken Hodge; Joan Delano Aiken MBE and John Aiken
At Harvard he shared a class and developed a close friendship T. S. Eliot, with whom he edited the Advocate. Aiken was a member of the class of 1912, in the same era as Eliot, Walter Lippman, Van Wyck Brooks, and E. E. Cummings.
Aiken was the son of wealthy New Englanders, William Ford and Anna (Potter) Aiken, who had moved to Savannah, Georgia when Conrad was a child. His father was an established and respected doctor who specialized in brain surgery. But rather suddenly, and without warning or reason, the good doctor turned violent and dark.
House of Dust 1920
http://www.house-crazy.com/murder-scene-for-sale-conrad-aikens-childhood-home/
In the early morning hours of February 27, 1901, an eleven year old Conrad listened from his bedroom as his parents argued. He then heard his father count to three before shooting his wife and himself. Conrad ran from his room to find the deceased bodies of his parents.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1246/1246-h/1246-h.htm
In a weird event, returned to Savannah and purchased the house next door to where his parents died.
Robert was known as Robert P. A. Taylor (Robert Potter Aiken Taylor).
Kempton helped establish the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
Brother:
Robert Potter Aiken Taylor
24 Mar 1895
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
17 Mar 1988 (aged 92)
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
1989, Jane, Joan and their brother John wrote a small book "Conrad Aiken Remembered."
John wrote that his father never once talked about the family slaughter. His daughters remembered he had warned them not to have children because the family was cursed. His sister, Elizabeth had gone mad in her teens. When Aiken was dying — in Savannah, where he had lived next door to his childhood home — he thought Jane, his daughter, was his sister. He told her "Never forget, Elizabeth, our parents were wonderful people.'"
A poet, younger brother of Conrad Potter Aiken #2624, a famous poet.
m. 24 Oct 1928 Elizabeth Herbert Smith #69720490
Children adopted in 1901 by Frederick Winslow Taylor 11349052 & his wife Louise M Spooner, #91324812, a distant relative, Great Great Aunt, after death of their parents. Without warning or apparent cause, his Doctor father became increasingly irascible, unpredictable, and violent. Then, early in the morning of February 27, 1901, he murdered his wife and shot himself. Conrad heard the shots and discovered their bodies @11yrs old.
Aiken had 3 younger siblings, Kempton, Robert and Elizabeth.
Reason for shooting is unknown,
Kempton, Robert and Elizabeth (all adopted orphans and younger siblings) of Aiken descent with their infamous brother Conrad Potter Aiken Buried @Thunderbolt, Chatham, Georgia, United States #2624 'Bonaventure Cemetery' renamed from the Evergreen Cemetery Company sold early 1900's.
After their parents' deaths, they were adopted by Frederick Winslow Taylor and his wife Louise, a distant relative, and took Taylor's last name.
Kempton was known as K. P. A. Taylor (Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor) and Robert was known as Robert P. A. Taylor (Robert Potter Aiken Taylor b.bet 1895-1901).
Elizabeth Potter Aiken Taylor b.bet 1895-1901
Kempton helped establish the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A. Taylor, a poet and younger brother of Conrad Aiken.
Massachusetts, Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990 SCHOOLS, DIRECTORIES & CHURCH HISTORIES
NAME: Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor
BIRTH: Georgia, USA
RESIDENCE: Panama
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 MILITARY
NAME: Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor
BIRTH: Georgia
RESIDENCE:,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
WWII draft card 1942
NAME: Robert Potter Aiken Taylor
BIRTH: Georgia, USA
RESIDENCE: Rhode Island, USA
Brother Conrad:
m. Jessie Akin (McDonald)1889-1970 (81)
Wife of Martin Armstrong and Conrad Aiken
Mother of Jane Aiken Hodge; Joan Delano Aiken MBE and John Aiken
At Harvard he shared a class and developed a close friendship T. S. Eliot, with whom he edited the Advocate. Aiken was a member of the class of 1912, in the same era as Eliot, Walter Lippman, Van Wyck Brooks, and E. E. Cummings.
Aiken was the son of wealthy New Englanders, William Ford and Anna (Potter) Aiken, who had moved to Savannah, Georgia when Conrad was a child. His father was an established and respected doctor who specialized in brain surgery. But rather suddenly, and without warning or reason, the good doctor turned violent and dark.
House of Dust 1920
http://www.house-crazy.com/murder-scene-for-sale-conrad-aikens-childhood-home/
In the early morning hours of February 27, 1901, an eleven year old Conrad listened from his bedroom as his parents argued. He then heard his father count to three before shooting his wife and himself. Conrad ran from his room to find the deceased bodies of his parents.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1246/1246-h/1246-h.htm
In a weird event, returned to Savannah and purchased the house next door to where his parents died.
Robert was known as Robert P. A. Taylor (Robert Potter Aiken Taylor).
Kempton helped establish the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
Brother:
Robert Potter Aiken Taylor
24 Mar 1895
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
17 Mar 1988 (aged 92)
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
1989, Jane, Joan and their brother John wrote a small book "Conrad Aiken Remembered."
John wrote that his father never once talked about the family slaughter. His daughters remembered he had warned them not to have children because the family was cursed. His sister, Elizabeth had gone mad in her teens. When Aiken was dying — in Savannah, where he had lived next door to his childhood home — he thought Jane, his daughter, was his sister. He told her "Never forget, Elizabeth, our parents were wonderful people.'"
m. 24 Oct 1928 Elizabeth Herbert Smith #69720490
Children adopted in 1901 by Frederick Winslow Taylor 11349052 & his wife Louise M Spooner, #91324812, a distant relative, Great Great Aunt, after death of their parents. Without warning or apparent cause, his Doctor father became increasingly irascible, unpredictable, and violent. Then, early in the morning of February 27, 1901, he murdered his wife and shot himself. Conrad heard the shots and discovered their bodies @11yrs old.
Aiken had 3 younger siblings, Kempton, Robert and Elizabeth.
Reason for shooting is unknown,
Kempton, Robert and Elizabeth (all adopted orphans and younger siblings) of Aiken descent with their infamous brother Conrad Potter Aiken Buried @Thunderbolt, Chatham, Georgia, United States #2624 'Bonaventure Cemetery' renamed from the Evergreen Cemetery Company sold early 1900's.
After their parents' deaths, they were adopted by Frederick Winslow Taylor and his wife Louise, a distant relative, and took Taylor's last name.
Kempton was known as K. P. A. Taylor (Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor) and Robert was known as Robert P. A. Taylor (Robert Potter Aiken Taylor b.bet 1895-1901).
Elizabeth Potter Aiken Taylor b.bet 1895-1901
Kempton helped establish the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A. Taylor, a poet and younger brother of Conrad Aiken.
Massachusetts, Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990 SCHOOLS, DIRECTORIES & CHURCH HISTORIES
NAME: Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor
BIRTH: Georgia, USA
RESIDENCE: Panama
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 MILITARY
NAME: Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor
BIRTH: Georgia
RESIDENCE:,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
WWII draft card 1942
NAME: Robert Potter Aiken Taylor
BIRTH: Georgia, USA
RESIDENCE: Rhode Island, USA
Brother Conrad:
m. Jessie Akin (McDonald)1889-1970 (81)
Wife of Martin Armstrong and Conrad Aiken
Mother of Jane Aiken Hodge; Joan Delano Aiken MBE and John Aiken
At Harvard he shared a class and developed a close friendship T. S. Eliot, with whom he edited the Advocate. Aiken was a member of the class of 1912, in the same era as Eliot, Walter Lippman, Van Wyck Brooks, and E. E. Cummings.
Aiken was the son of wealthy New Englanders, William Ford and Anna (Potter) Aiken, who had moved to Savannah, Georgia when Conrad was a child. His father was an established and respected doctor who specialized in brain surgery. But rather suddenly, and without warning or reason, the good doctor turned violent and dark.
House of Dust 1920
http://www.house-crazy.com/murder-scene-for-sale-conrad-aikens-childhood-home/
In the early morning hours of February 27, 1901, an eleven year old Conrad listened from his bedroom as his parents argued. He then heard his father count to three before shooting his wife and himself. Conrad ran from his room to find the deceased bodies of his parents.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1246/1246-h/1246-h.htm
In a weird event, returned to Savannah and purchased the house next door to where his parents died.
Robert was known as Robert P. A. Taylor (Robert Potter Aiken Taylor).
Kempton helped establish the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
Brother:
Robert Potter Aiken Taylor
24 Mar 1895
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
17 Mar 1988 (aged 92)
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
1989, Jane, Joan and their brother John wrote a small book "Conrad Aiken Remembered."
John wrote that his father never once talked about the family slaughter. His daughters remembered he had warned them not to have children because the family was cursed. His sister, Elizabeth had gone mad in her teens. When Aiken was dying — in Savannah, where he had lived next door to his childhood home — he thought Jane, his daughter, was his sister. He told her "Never forget, Elizabeth, our parents were wonderful people.'"
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