The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-05
MARY BAKER G. EDDY
DIED OF PNEUMONIA
AND OLD ACE AT 80

foothills. of New Hampshire. Her
fataer, Mark Eaker, was a farm er Of
Bow, and d descendant OF revolution
airy and colonial people. She was the
youngest of three daughters and had
two brothers. She was in delicate
health from birth, and in childhood is
said to nave perpleXed her father by
sage sayings and grave doings. Her
education was received in little
schools, supplemented by what she
gathered from the discussion of re-
ligious matters at the family ftreside,
when seve al clergymen were often
callers.
First Married in 1843.
In the early forties Washington
Glover became associated with SAM
uel Baker, one of Mark Bakers SONS,
and married Mary Baker about Chlist
mas 1843, at Tilton, N. II, The Clio
vers went soutn, where Mrs. Eddy
saw slavery and there, the Jrne after
she married, she was left a widoy.
Returning to New Hampshire she
gave birth to her son, George wash
ington Glover, in September. May
Baker Glover spent the next few
years with her sister, Abigail, in New
Hampshire, and began literary work.
writing her observations on slavery.
She also taught school. About 1850
wave Of spiritualsm swept Over
New England, wniea drew her atten-
tioa. After nine years of widowhoCd
Mrs. Eddy married Daniel Patterson,
Of New Hampshire, dentist. This
marriage was not happy. The rela-
tionship was kept up 20 years, when
they were divorced.
One of the notable events of her
life was fler meeting In 1862 with
hineas Quinby, mesmeric heale",
at Portland, Maine Quinby was the
son Of blacksmith. From his ac-
.quaintanaa Mrs Eddy became simhued.
with metaphysical ideas and begaa
her career in that direction.
Denounced Qulnby.
Later she denounced Quinby's meth
eds, saying:
II discovered tile science of mir d
reading, and that was enough See
was then Mrs. Patterson,
After spending two years in Port
land she rejoined her husband IN
Lynn, wher she lived five years, cor
tinuing the study of metaphysics.
While there she suffered fall on the
ice which the Doctor said was severe,
but from which she recovered, s:e
said, in one night. 1t was this incl
dent that led directly to the promul-
cation Of her discovery of Christia.l
Science
The little house in Broad street
Lynn, where she lived then, is tn
Mecca of christian science pilgrims
from all over the wcrld today. 1t wss
in 1875, nine years after the discovery
that the first edition of Science AMI
Health was published The CLOSING
chapters of the manuscript We're Writ
ten in an upper room of the Broad
street house.
In 1877, four years after her separ-
alton from Patterson, she marrie.t
Asa Colbert Eddy. In the. interval
she had been admitted to the Congre-
gational denomination.
Mrs. Eddy established the Mass.
chusetts Metaphysical College in Pos
ton in 1881, Her teachings We're TAX
en- up and accepted at first by few
followers, and, as years went, by
larger and larger number until TIE
today extends to many
lands AMI numbers millions.
She organized the first church in
Boston, in 1879. Subsequently
large edifice was erected mere OF
which she was made pastor. Her
writings tnen became voluminous and
she contributed largely to the Chr 81
tian Science Journal, and the Chris
tian Science Sentinel Mrs. Eddy
took up her residence in Concord IN
1889 and it was at her home at Pleas
ant View that she ~atched the great
growth of her denomination.
Mrs. Eddy took up her reslaence at
Chestnut Hill, Newton, in 1908. and
there her last Jays were spent. Fer
the past three years she iivef -
and peacefully