The Washington herald., 1910-12-05
Bay district Of Boston is valued at

Personally. hsr bearing suggested ex
ceptional spiritual powers She was sien
der IN form, OF perfect Grecian type. witt
large, luminous eyes. Her success as al
Suthor enabled her 10 give freely 70
,hilanthropie objects She had little de
sire 10 spend money for her own use. ant
closed her college at the height Of IL
prosperity, when its income was 5000
annually. In order 20 engage In more i'm
portant work She refused 10 receive tn
money from her last class. numberinl
seventy, although they urged her accept
ance of IL. She gave away annually L
the poor and I'm benefactions about $4,000
Any deserving cause met With read.
response
Into her college classes she received
many free pupils. and on many OCCASION
postponed remunerative work for month";
at a time that she might do a friendl
task. For some time her work as a heal
er was little appreciated. but her cour
age and faith never faltered.
First Husband Dies.
After the death of Mrs. Eddy's frs
husband from yellow fever in Whining
ton, n. c., while there on a business trip
she returned North and resumed her Ole
life in her fathers house. -Four months
after she gave birth to a boy. Mean
while she had lost all of her husband
property, except what little money sh'
had brought back with her. Shortly afte
her mother died. When her boy wa
about four years old her father marrie'
again and the child was sent away &
the care of an old nurse OF the famii!
who had married and was living II
Northern New Hampshire. She neve
saw him again until he WAS Ii gTOWI
man OF thirty-four. With a home an,
family OF his own, out in Dakota. Thu
nurse had early moved West and tn
mother had been told that the child wa
lost
The latter Misfortune came upon he
after her second marriage. This was witt
a Or. Daniel Patterson. dentist. OF
New Hampshire town. The date is no
given. but it was apparently in the lat
lS4Os To get back her boy. she says
was her dominant thought In maxim!
this marriage. DR.. Patterson, however
was not willing 10 have him in theil
home. and soon "a plot was consum
mated" 10 part her from him perma
nently.
Without her knowledge the stepfathel
was appointed his guardian. Then came
the report of his loss. When all effort
to find him had failed. she became con
WINGED that he was dead. The boy alsC
had been told that his mother had died
Their meeting in after years was th'
result OF his discovery or her when ht
visited her at her home. then in Massa
chusetts, and disclosed his identity. III
had grown up In the Northwest. had
served through the civil war and has
become United States marshal OF tht
Territory OF Dakota. His home has since
been in Denver. lie has not been at
tracted TO the Christian Science cult
Marriage Is Unfortunate.
Mrs Eddy's marriage with Or. Patter
son was unfortunate I'M other respects
than in this case OF her child. Aftel
some years she separated from him. ant
subsequently obtained a divorce on thl
ground OF inf6elity The divorce va.
granted 20 her az Salem, Mass. IN 1873
when DIR. Patterson was living IN Little
ton. n. II.
From the time OF her return 70 Tiltor
upon her first husbands death until hel
advent with Christian Science, II IS sal,
that she supported herself mainly by heI
pen, and with a literary output which
must have been remarkable. The asser
ton is made that soon after Col. Clover
death she was Offered a salary OF S, 90
a year by Rev. Albert Case. editor Of
the odd Fellows Magazine published bY
the United States Lodge, and that ''othel
leading magazines, both North and South
have allowed her 10 name her salary and
never objected to payiag Il"
Anti-slayery Articles.
Another biographer makes this dec
Iaration: Her anti-slavery articles thar
appeared in the South in newspaper.
and magazines under the pseudonym Of
a man created such an excitement II
North Carolina that placards We're post
ed offering premiums for the detection
of their authorize second 'Junius. '"
Another statement is that Col GlcyeI
owned property IN slaves; "but Mrs
Glover did not sell them after hi.
death. She did not disagree with thl
S0utherners' idea of natural racial dis
tinctions, but she could not accept IN,
ownership OF human beings" And an
other: When the civil war broke ou
she took a public stand for abolishins
slavery. She obtained a long list o
female petitioners and sent fl 20 Gen
BENJAMIN T. Butler, beseeching hin
10 make the loyal Southern slave a con
traband Of war. His aid-de-camp replied
The general believes that with the aiC
of such women the war would soon b'
over
Period of Invalfdism.
Her mind appeared to have turned
most definitely upon these theories dur
ing a long period Of invalidism. which
began in or about the year 1856. She had
tried the regular medical systems, par
tieularly homeopathy. and had spen
some time in a water-cure establish
ment in a New Hampshire town. Mean.
while she examined medical treatise.
somewhat. with perhaps a latent thought
of herself becoming a homeopathic prac
titioner
She went 10 Or. Quimby from the wa.
ter-cure establishment, and at Portland
recovered her health. After that sht
settled in Lynn. Mass. and there con
ceived and produced her book. Mean
time. in 1870. she prudently copyrighted
the first production on spiritual scien-
tific mind-healing, under the title OF
"The Science of Man" After her pub.
LEGATION of Science and Health" she
married her third husband. Dr. Eddy
the ceremony taking place in Lynn fl
1877.
REPORTS OF HER DEATH
uAn OFTEN RFTN OFNJFn