Hezekiah Hulbert Eaton
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Hezekiah Hulbert Eaton (July 23, 1809, in Catskill, New York – August 16, 1832, in Lexington, Kentucky) was an American educator and naturalist.
Eaton was the fifth son of the botanist and educator Amos Eaton (1776-1842), the fourth of Amos Eaton's second wife Sally Cady (d. 1816). In 1818 the family moved to Albany where he soon began to help collect rocks and plant specimens for his father's lectures. In 1823 he assisted his father in giving courses at Amherst College and Middlebury College and accompanied him on an extensive geological tour of New York and Massachusetts. That winter he once again assisted his father's lectures, this time at the Medical College of Vermont.
In 1824 his father helped found the Rensselaer School and Eaton was one of the first students, graduating in 1826 with the first graduating class.[1]
Eaton lectured at various schools and venues until 1829, when he returned to the Rensselaer School as a Junior Professor. In autumn of 1829 he was invited to join Rev. Benjamin Peers in establishing a new school, later called the Eclectic Institute, in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1831 he was also selected to assist Lunsford Yandell in teaching chemistry at the Transylvania University medical school. He remained in those positions until his death from "pulmonary consumption" on August 16, 1832.
