STROTHARD, HENRY SEYMOUR BEEK (1882-1974)

STROTHARD, HENRY SEYMOUR BEEK, Methodist minister, Chatham circuit, 1919-21; b. Granville Ferry, N.S., 10 Nov 1882, s/o James P. Strothard and Alice Eliza Beek; m. Emma S. Jones, of Moncton; d. Windsor, N.S., 2 Oct 1974.

Henry ("H. S. B.") Strothard was educated at Mount Allison University (BA 1904, MA and BD 1908) and also tutored for several years in the faculty of theology. Ordained in 1908, he served in three different Methodist circuits in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island before being assigned to the Miramichi in 1919, as successor to the Rev. John J. Pinkerton. When he left in 1921 it was to be field secretary for Sunday schools and young people's organizations and to lecture in religious education at Mount Allison. After church union he had United Church pulpits in Saint John, and in Springhill and Lunenburg, N.S. He retired in 1948 in Halifax, where he was later minister of visitation and minister emeritus of St John's United Church.

Strothard was "an outstanding preacher and administrator," whose accomplishments were recognized in 1937 when he was awarded an honorary DD by Pine Hill Divinity Hall. He maintained a lifelong interest in Hebrew and Greek and kept up a schedule of daily readings of the scriptures in those languages after retirement. He and his wife, Emma S. Jones, had two sons and two daughters.