Edgar Rickard
{{Short description|American mining engineer}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Edgar Rickard
| image = File:Portrait of Edgar Rickard.jpg
| caption = Portrait of Edgar Rickard.
| birth_date = {{birth date|1874|01|17}}
| birth_place = Pontgibaud, France
| death_date = {{death date and age|1951|01|21|1874|01|17}}
| death_place = San Francisco, California
| occupation = Mining Engineer
| spouse =
| parents = Reuben Rickard
| children =
}}
Edgar Rickard (January 17, 1874 – January 21, 1951) was a mining engineer{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/01/22/archives/edgar-rickard-77-engineer-is-dead-associate-of-herbert-hoover-on.html|title=EDGAR RICKARD, 77, ENGINEER, IS DEAD; Associate of Herbert Hoover on Belgian Relief Commission Well Known, in Mining Father Also an Engineer Manufacturing Firms Officer|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 22, 1951}} and lifelong confidant of U.S. President Herbert Hoover.{{cite thesis |last=Reese |first=Brian Douglas |date=2018 |title=A Mutual Charge: the Shared Mission of Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman to Alleviate Global Hunger in a Postwar World |type=MA |publisher=Portland State University |doi=10.15760/etd.6362 |url=https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5549&context=open_access_etds |access-date=16 December 2019 |doi-access=free }}{{rp|3}}{{cite web |url=http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hoover/rickard.htm |title=Edgar Rickard biographical sketch |website=Hoover & Truman |publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |access-date=15 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519122416/https://www.trumanlibrary.org/hoover/rickard.htm |archive-date=2007-05-19 |url-status=dead }}
Biography
=Family=
He was the son of mining engineer Reuben Rickard, and the brother of Thomas Rickard, a mining engineer and one-time mayor of Berkeley, California.{{cite magazine |date=April 1, 1911 |title=Obituary |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015086655811&view=1up&seq=505 |magazine=Mining and Scientific Press |location=San Francisco |publisher=Dewey Pub. Co. |volume=102 |issue=57 |pages=483 |access-date=13 December 2019 }}
He was born on January 17, 1874, in Pontgibaud, France.{{cite news |date=January 22, 1951 |title=Edgar Rickard, 77, engineer, is dead |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/01/22/88424888.html?pageNumber=17 |work=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2019 |page=17 }} {{subscription required|s}}
=Career=
For many years around the turn of the century, he was the editor of a mining journal in London.
=Diary=
=Death=
Rickard died on January 21, 1951{{cite web |url=http://www.baef.be/documents/about-us/history/the-second-quarter-century-1945-1971-.xml |title=The Second Quarter Century (1946-1971) |last=Hayoit |first=Marie Claude |website=BAEF |publisher=Belgian American Educational Foundation |access-date=13 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213073519/http://www.baef.be/documents/about-us/history/the-second-quarter-century-1945-1971-.xml |archive-date=2019-12-13 |url-status=dead }} in San Francisco, California.
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Category:American mining engineers
Category:American expatriates in the United Kingdom
Category:French emigrants to the United States
Category:People from Puy-de-Dôme
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