Dr John Young AITCHISON

1868 - 1926  (57 years)

• Name	John Young AITCHISON
  Prefix	Dr
  Born	27 May 1868	Cascade, Dubuque, Iowa
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Church secretary, music director
  Religion	Baptist
  Census	1870	Harrisburg, Van Buren, Iowa
  Census	1900	Shenandoah, Page, Iowa
  Census	1910	Oak Park, Cook, Illinois
  Census	1920	Yonkers, Westchester, New York
  Obituary	Dr Aitchison of U of C dies Rites Thursday Funderal services for Dr. J. Y. Aitchison, assistant to President Max Mason of the University of Chicago, who dropped dead yesterday a few blocks from his home at 5524 Kimbark Ave, will he he’d at the Huda Park Baptist church at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon. The Rev. Charles W. Gilkey will conduct the services, assisted by university officials. Dr Aitchison, who was 65 years old, for man-years handled the missionary funds of the Baptist churches in American and at one time was general director of the board of promotion of the Northern Baptist church convention. He can to the University Chicago in 1824 to hep in the campaign to raise a $17,500,000 endowment and maintenance fund. Born in Dubuque, IA, and educated at Des Moines university and the University of Chicago, Dr.. Aitchison took his first pastorate at Wasco, IL. He is survived by a widow, Estelle; a sone, John B; two sisters, Mrs Ruth Welch, Tarrytown, NY, and Mrs Lydia Knapp; and two brothers, A. W. Aitchison, Cascade, IA, and W. C. Aitchison, Hopkinson, IA. Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar 1926, pg. 35
  Buried	1926	Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa   [1]
  Died	15 Mar 1926	Chicago, Cook, Illinois
  Person ID	I2717	Main
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2023

  
  

  Family	Estella Viola “Stella” SUTTON,   b. 3 Jul 1868, Mt Pleasant, Henry, Iowa ,   d. 12 Feb 1948, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  (Age 79 years)
  Children	1. John Babcock AITCHISON,   b. 11 May 1906, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois ,   d. 9 Sep 2002, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  (Age 96 years)
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2020
  Family ID	F1327	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 27 May 1868 - Cascade, Dubuque, Iowa Census - 1870 - Harrisburg, Van Buren, Iowa Census - 1900 - Shenandoah, Page, Iowa Census - 1910 - Oak Park, Cook, Illinois Census - 1920 - Yonkers, Westchester, New York Buried - 1926 - Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa Died - 15 Mar 1926 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois  = Link to Google Earth
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  s/o William Young AITCHISON (1837-1908) & Harriet Amilia BABCOCK (1840-1894) —— The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 29 May 1923, Tue PROGRESSIVES ROUT FUNDAMENTALISTS IN BAPTIST CONVENTION Leaders Quit Atlantic City Meeting, Fearing Steam Roller Creedal Resolution on Christ’s Deity and Diving Origin of Bible Buried Atlantic City, Mary 28—All hope of the Fundamentalist faction in the Northern Baptist convention to force through the creedal statement reaffirming their belief in the deity of Christ and the divine inspiration of the Bible was abandoned this afternoon when it became know what the two leaders of the Fundamentalists, Dr. J C Massy, of Boston, and Dr. J. Marvin, dean of Pasadena, Dal., had left the convention for their home. … a long article detailing what happened at the convention … ending with: Dr. John Y. Aitchison who last night was re-elected general director of the General Board of Promotion which is in charge of the New World Movement, gave his annual report math the morning session. He warned the delegates that they must get over “uncertainty and irresolution and come with a clean skin out of any attacks of denominational measles.” Plea for New World Movement “We must go back with a clean slate, prepared to work as we have never worked before. We are going to get the entire $100,000,000 upon which we determined when we set out upon the New World Movement, but we are going to get about one-half of it in money, and the rest in experience. The experience is going to be as valuable to us as the money That experience is the foundation upon which we are going forth to build up a larger program than even the one which we conceived in Denver four years ago. “There are those who say that our program was too large. But we are far better off today than we would have been if we had not launched so broad an undertaking. This is a moment not of defeat but of triumph for our denomination.”

  
  

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  [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 27272020.