James Aikens was a Methodist circuit rider.
Aikens was born in Ireland in 1778, and came to the United States in 1792. Aikens' family settled in Pennsylvania, where he converted to Methodism in 1795. He was accepted on trial for the Methodist itinerary in 1801, and assigned to the Oswegotchie Circuit. In successive years, he worked the following circuits: Northumberland, Northampton, St. Martins, Accomack, Milford, Cambridge, Somerset, Bristol, Cecil, Talbot, Accomack, Milford, New-Mills, Freehold, Asbury, Trenton, Freebond, Hamburg, Salem and Bergin. Bergin was the circuit in rode in 1823. He died at the house of John Theel, in 1823.[1]
- ^ Carroll, John (1867). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. I. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office. p. 63.