• Age: 97
• Interview Date: June and July 1975
• Interviewer: Horace Waggoner, University of Illinois at Springfield
• Interview Length: 1,500 minutes Sit Down Interview
• County: Montgomery
• Bert Aikman was born in Hornsby, Illinois in 1878. Bert's father was a farmer and Bert worked in different occupations and on several farms before settling down in Pitman, Illinois on his own farm.

Harry, Warren, Herbert, George, and Eugene Aikman, 1905                                                                  Aikman Family gathering in 1929 to celebrate 50th wedding anniversary of Martin and Melissa ReidellHerbert, Harry, and George Aikman, n. d.