Robert Aitken Publisher - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Robert Aitken Publisher
- :For others similarly named, see the Robert Aitken navigation page Robert Aitken (1734–1802) was a Philadelphia printer and the first to publish an English language Bible in the newly formed United States.
- He was born in Dalkeith, Scotland. He emigrated to Philadelphia in 1769, where he published the Pennsylvania Magazine, or American Monthly Museum in 1775–76.Starting in Philadelphia as a bookseller in 1769 and 1771, Aitken started publication of The Pennsylvania Magazine in 1775, continuing through 1776.
- He also printed copies of the New Testament in 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1781.
- He died in Philadelphia in 1802.
