Aikens, Amanda L
editor, philanthropist, was born May 12, 1833, in North Adams, Mass. Since 1887 she has been editor of The Woman's World, a special department of The Evening Wisconsin, of Milwaukee, Wis.; of which publication her husband is one of the proprietors. She has been president of the Board of Local Charities and Corrections; was two years president of the Woman's club of Milwaukee, and has filled other positions of honor in various institutions. She was one of the organizers of the First Woman's Republican club of Wisconsin; and for nearly twenty years has been identified as officer or director with the Art Science Class, a literary organization for the purpose of developing a taste in architecture, painting, sculpture and science.