His involvement in Aiken along with that of Thomas_Hitchcock, the Vanderbilt family, the Astor_family and other equestrian minded business associates helped establish Aiken's premier " Winter Colony ".

She died in a riding accident on May 6, 1899 at their estate in the Aiken Winter Colony in Aiken, South Carolina.

* William Collins Whitney Squash Court, at his Aiken Winter Colony estate in Aiken, South Carolina

Howard Aiken was his advisor.

Known officially as the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, the Mark I was a general purpose electro-mechanical computer built with IBM financing and with assistance from IBM personnel, under the direction of Harvard mathematician Howard Aiken.

These sneak and peek provisions were struck down by judge Ann Aiken on September 26, 2007 after a Portland attorney, Brandon Mayfield, was wrongly jailed because of the searches.

He was on the editorial board, with Conrad Aiken, Eliot, Lewis and Aldous Huxley, of Chaman Lall's London literary quarterly Coterie published 1919 – 1921.

The version by Aiken is perhaps the best known stage adaptation, released just a few months after the novel was published.

The funeral was attended by his good friend and neighbor former senator George Aiken and former president Richard M. Nixon, Aiken died two months later.

Perry was born in Aiken, South Carolina.

" He attended South Aiken High School, where he was a standout high school football player.

A small western portion of Orangeburg County was annexed to the newly formed Aiken County in 1871.

In 1871 the northwestern portion of the county was taken to form part of the new Aiken County.

In 1874 the border with Aiken County was adjusted slightly.

Both Aiken County and its county seat of Aiken are named after William Aiken ( 1779 – 1831 ) who was the first president of the South Carolina Railroad Company.

In 1871, Aiken County was formed from pieces of Barnwell, Edgefield, Lexington, and Orangeburg counties.

The internecine conflict was brought to an end in May 1923 as the rule of law was re-established following the death of IRA Chief of Staff Liam Lynch, and the order by Frank Aiken to dump all arms.

Samuel Pierpont Langley ( August 22, 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts – February 27, 1906, Aiken, South Carolina ) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation.

James Walter Carter ( December 15, 1923 in Aiken, SC – September 21, 1994 ) was a world lightweight boxing champion.

It was founded in 1887 as Aiken.

Aiken was recognized with the All-America City Award in 1997 by the National Civic League.

It was named for William Aiken, a founder of a railroad company in Charleston.

The writer Gamel Woolsey, who coined the phrase " pornography of violence " in her memoir of the Spanish Civil War, Death's Other Kingdom ( also published under the title Malaga Burning ), was born in Aiken in 1895.

Under authority granted by the South Carolina General Assembly, the Aiken County Commission for Higher Education entered into an agreement with the University of South Carolina in 1961 to establish a two-year, off-campus center of the University in Aiken County.

* 1930: Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken

Starting in South Carolina, U. S. 1 is paralleled by Interstate 20 along the Fall Line through Aiken, Lexington, and Columbia to Camden and Lugoff.

Aiken has a Humid subtropical climate, which is characterized by hot, humid summers and cool, dry winter, but in this part of the state experiences milder temperatures throughout the year than the rest of the state.

The selection of a site near Aiken by the United States Atomic Energy Commission to build a plant to produce fuel for thermonuclear weapons was announced on November 30, 1950.

* Savannah River Ecology Laboratory ( SREL ) is a research unit of The University of Georgia, located at the U. S. Department of Energy's ( DOE ) Savannah River Site ( SRS ) in Aiken, S. C .-Since the laboratory's founding in 1951 by Dr. Eugene Odum of the University of Georgia, a pioneer of modern ecology, SREL scientists have studied the long-term ecological impacts of the SRS nuclear facility.

The Aiken Steeplechase Association, founded in 1930, hosts the Imperial Cup each March and the Holiday Cup in October, both of which are steeplechase races sanctioned by the National Steeplechase Association.

However McNeill's tact was not reciprocated by de Valera's government, some of whose ministers sought to humiliate McNeill as the King's representative, by withdrawing the Irish Army's band from playing at functions he attended, demanded he withdraw invitations to visitors to meet him and in one notorious incident, two ministers, Seán T. O ' Kelly and Frank Aiken publicly stormed out of a diplomatic function when McNeill, there as the guest of the French ambassador, arrived.

The electromechanical ASCC was devised by Howard H. Aiken, built at IBM and shipped to Harvard in February 1944.

A project conceived by Harvard University's Dr. Howard Aiken, the Mark I was built by IBM engineers in Endicott, N. Y. A steel frame long and eight feet high held the calculator, which consisted of an interlocking panel of small gears, counters, switches and control circuits, all only a few inches in depth.

The Mark I was followed by the Harvard Mark II ( 1947 or 1948 ), Mark III / ADEC ( September 1949 ), and Harvard Mark IV ( 1952 ) – all the work of Aiken.

The local Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army under Frank Aiken tried to stay neutral but 300 of them were arrested by the new Irish Army in August 1922.

Aiken has been accused by unionists of ethnic cleansing of Protestants from parts of South Armagh, Newry, and other parts of the north, in particular the killing of seven Protestant civilians in Altnaveigh in June 1922.

Aiken became a source of controversy in mid-1932 when he, along with Vice President of the Executive Council Seán T. O ' Kelly publicly snubbed the Governor-General of the Irish Free State James McNeill, by staging a public walkout at a function in the French legation in Dublin.

In the UN the Irish delegation sat between Iraq and Israel and formed a kind of physical ' buffer ' and in the days of Aiken ( who as a minister spent a lot of time with the UN delegation ) both the Italians ( who on their turn sat in the vicinity of the Iraqi delegation ), the Irish and the Israeli claimed to be the one and only UN-delegation of New York, a city inhabited by many Irish, Jewish and Italians.

of State Dean Rusk, Sen. George Aiken, President Kennedy, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, Sen. Everett Dirksen, William C. Foster, Sen. Howard W. Cannon, Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel, Vice President Johnson.

* Thomas Hitchcock and his wife Louise spent a great deal of time at their estate near Aiken where in 1892 he founded the Palmetto Golf Club.

In 1930, Thomas Hitchcock helped found the Aiken Steeplechase Association.

* Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. ( 1900 – 1944 ), son of Thomas and Louise Hitchcock, was born in Aiken.

Dr. Thomas L. Hallman was named Chancellor of the University of South Carolina Aiken in 2001.

Francis Thomas ( Frank ) Aiken was born on 13 February 1898 at Camlough in County Armagh.

72 ( January – June 1922 ) Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Louis Aragon, Alexander Archipenko, Maxwell Bodenheim, Ivan Bunin, Kenneth Burke, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Hart Crane, Thomas Jewell Craven, S. Foster Damon, e. e. cummings, Alfeo Faggi, Herman Hesse, A. L. Kroeber, D. H. Lawrence, Henri Matisse, Henry McBride, Raymond Mortimer, Paul Rosenfeld, Henri Rousseau, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, George Santayana, Gilbert Seldes, May Sinclair, Paul Valéry

74 ( January – June 1923 ) Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, e. e. cummings, Stuart Davis, John Dewey, Gerhart Hauptmann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Marie Laurencin, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Katherine Mansfield, Frans Masereel, Henry McBride, George Moore, Marianne Moore, Raymond Mortimer, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Paul Rosenfeld, Henri Rousseau, Edmund Wilson, William Butler Yeats, Stefan Zweig

82 ( January – June 1927 ) Conrad Aiken, Constantin Brâncuşi, Paul Cézanne, Hart Crane, Benedetto Croce, T. S. Eliot, Ramon Fernandez, Leon Srabian Herald, Winslow Homer, Oskar Kokoschka, Thomas Mann, Henry McBride, Edvard Munch, Paul Rosenfeld, George Saintsbury, George Santayana, Meridel Le Sueur, Sacheverell Sitwell, Vincent van Gogh, William Carlos Williams, Jack Yeats

The Thomas Crane Public Library was built in four stages: the original building ( 1882 ) by architect H. H. Richardson ; an additional ell with stack space and stained glass ( 1908 ) by William Martin Aiken in Richardson's style ; a major expansion ( 1939 ) by architects Paul A. and Carroll Coletti, with stone carvings by sculptor Joseph A. Coletti of Quincy ; and a recent addition ( 2001 ) by Boston architects Childs, Bertman, and Tseckares, which doubled the size of the library.

Image: Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, Massachusetts ( interior stacks ). JPG | Interior view of 1908 addition by Aiken.