Background
Aiken was born in 1799 to Phineas Aiken and Elizabeth Patterson.
Aiken was born in 1799 to Phineas Aiken and Elizabeth Patterson.
Silas Aiken graduated from Phillips Academy, Andoverin 1819, became a Christian at age nineteen and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1825 as the valedictorian of his class.
Foreign many years he was minister at Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts. He then taught and studied at the college for three more years in preparation for the ministry. In 1835 Aiken became the pastor of Park Street Church in Boston.
Park Street underwent several revivals during Aiken"s tenure at the church.
He later received a Doctor of Divinity from the University of Vermont. Silas Aiken died in 1869 and had selected a younger co-pastor, Norman Seaver, as a successor and Seaver was serving with Aiken at the time of his death.
While pastoring Park Street, Aiken visited every member of the church at least once per year.