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HILTZ, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (1843-1899)

HILTZ, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, Anglican missionary, Derby and Blackville, 1877-87; b. Chester, N.S., 5 Apr 1843, s/o John Frederick Hiltz and Mary Catherine Yung; m. 1881, Grace Louisa Whitford, also a native of Chester; d. Dartmouth, N.S., 6 Dec 1899.

Augustus F. Hiltz was a descendant of German immigrants who settled in Nova Scotia in the 1750s. He grew up in Lunenburg County and entered King's College, Windsor, as a mature student in 1872 to study for the Anglican ministry. He was made a deacon the following year and ordained a priest in 1874. He served as vicar at Falmouth, N.S., until assigned to the Derby and Blackville mission in 1877, as successor to the Rev. William Cruden. He was an energetic young man who introduced many improvements, including "a sweet-toned bell" for St Peter's Church at Derby.

In 1881, at age thirty-eight, Hiltz was married to the daughter of the postmaster of Bridgewater, N.S. In 1885 a BD was conferred on him by King's College. He resigned from his pastoral duties late in 1887 after suffering a spinal injury. His condition was so severe that he stayed in Chatham for a time to be close to his doctor. He appeared to be somewhat improved in the spring of 1888 and went to England to recuperate. He and his family were back in Nova Scotia in August. It was not until 1889 that a successor was appointed at Derby and Blackville, in the person of the Rev. Robert W. Hudgell.

Hiltz's injury proved to be permanently disabling, and during most of the 1890s he was hospitalized in Dartmouth, N.S., where his family was then living. He and his wife, Grace L. Whitford, had two sons and three daughters, all but one of whom were baptized at Derby. Their youngest child, Mary C. Hiltz, who was born at Chester, N.S., in 1890, was a member of faculty of the University of Manitoba for thirty-five years in the field of home economics.

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[b/d] Hiltz family data [m] Advocate 23 Feb 1881 / Advocate 3 Sep 1879, 30 May 1888, 29 Aug 1888; Francis research; Hiltz biog. data; PANS (biog. file re. Mary Catherine Hiltz)


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