June 30, 1871 – Aitkin County was
organized on this date. Its name “was at first erroneously spelled Aiken,” but
pronounced the same. It “was changed to its present spelling in 1872 by an act
of the legislature.”
Upham, Warren; Minnesota
Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance; Minnesota
Historical Society (St. Paul, Minn., 1969); p. 14.
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