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Chester Old Baptist Cemetery
(Photo taken by George Newbury - [email protected])
 


Facts about Winthrop Pickard Bell

Winthrop Bell was born on _________,1884 at _________________.
Dr. Bell's mother was Mary Emerancy Pickard Bell (the first teacher of piano in the Conservatory of Music - 1873 to 1882.)
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree (Math.) from Mount Allison University in 1904.
He took engineering courses at McGill and Cornell.
He received a Master of Arts degree (Philosophy) from Harvard in 1909.
He spent 3 years at Cambridge University but was stricken with pleurisy before completing his courses.
He earned his doctorate of Philosophy from Gottingen in 1914.
Bell married Hazel Deinstadt on ___________, at _______________.
Following retirement from various teaching and business pursuits, he engaged in his passion for writing, publishing the "Foreign Protestants" in his 77th year.
It took Bell 15 years (1946-1961) to complete his book "Foreign Protestants".
The Winthrop Pickard Bell Chair of Maritime Studies, established at Mount Allison University in 1977, stands as testimony to his generous support of education in the Maritimes.
He died on April 4th, 1965 at _________________ at 81 years of age.


The above information was gratefully submitted by Muriel M. Davidson, Haslem Smith, Phil Vogler and the Mount Allison University website.

Here is a link to Wally & Frances Gray's website in which they have shown some of Bell's notes to Wally on his family search at the time of Bell getting the "Foreign Protestant's book published........

Here is a link to John Williams website in which he has written a book about Winthrop's brother Ralph Pickard Bell.....and has kindly submitted Winthop's Photo shown above.....


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