Sous-fonds SF133 - Lorne and Edith Pierce collection. Edward Hartley Dewart sous-fonds

Edward Hartley Dewart was born on 30 March 1828 in Ireland, the son of James and Margaret Hartley Dewart. When he was six the family immigrated to Canada. Edward was educated in the local Ontario schools of Dummer Township and at the Provincial Normal School. He taught briefly before entering the church. He was ordained into the Wesleyan Methodist ministry in 1855. The following year he married Matilda Hunt, and they apparently had three sons. For twenty-five years, from 1869 to 1894, he edited the Christian Guardian , the Methodists' weekly newspaper in Toronto. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the Methodist-sponsored Victoria University in 1879. He was still writing columns for the Christian Guardian up until his death.