Humphrey Pickard (10 June 1813 – 28 February 1890) was a Canadian

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minister, educator, and journalist. He was the first president from 1862 to 1869 of Mount Allison Wesleyan College (later known as

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Biography

Humphrey Pickard was born in

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, New Brunswick on 10 June 1813. He attended

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from 1829 to 1831. He attended one year at

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in 1831 before returning to Fredericton to become a businessman. In 1835, he became a Methodist minister and returned to Wesleyan University in 1837, graduating in 1839. From 1869 to 1873, Pickard was editor of the ''Wesleyan'', a Methodist newspaper in Halifax. He received a

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degree from Wesleyan University in 1857. He died in Sackville, New Brunswick on 28 February 1890.

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