Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton
‘definitive historian’
1849 to 1937
Oakgrove Cemetery in Kentville
Prolific Harvard-educated scholar and writer Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton was the son of a Planter who was involved in the construction of the Wellington Dyke. Eaton, also a clergyman, had a keen interest in history, and many of the works he penned, including A History of Kings County (1910), are available through Acadia University’s library.
“Though in the ‘Boston states’ Eaton understandably kept quiet about his maternal great-grandfather Henry Hamilton, who had been a Tory refugee, his own career, mostly spent in New England, gave him the intellectual distance and historical perspective necessary to write impartially and with profound insight about the origin and development of English Nova Scotia as the “new” New England,” states a Dictionary of Canadian Biography article penned about Eaton.
“Eaton’s historical, though not his literary, work has stood the test of time, scarcely equalled much less exceeded … Eaton would come to be regarded as the definitive historian of the loyalist period in his native province.”
Winter parking across street at Burgher Hill, rest of year, use cemetery road to enter and park.
Look for year Kenneth Sutherland Eaton was born, Apr 3. XXXX
Final location is N 45 04.AAA W 064 29.BBB
AAA = XXXX - 1517
BBB = XXXX - 1789