Humphrey Pickard was a Canadian Methodist

Methodism

Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...

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

Mount Allison University

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).

Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick

New Brunswick

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, Pickard attended Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy

Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy

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 from 1829 to 1831. He attended one year at Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

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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 and graduated in 1839.

From 1869 to 1873, Pickard was editor of the Wesleyan, a Methodist newspaper in Halifax. "Wesleyan University conferred a D.D.

Doctor of Divinity

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on him in 1857."