Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-05

city The house in which she was porn
Was burned April s. 1910.
| Mrs Eddy first took up her residence
! in this city in 1889. In 1892, she purchased
the estate subsequently known as Pleas
ant View, which is situated on an emil
hence about half way between the city
proper and st. Pauls school. She made
many changes in improvements in the
property and lived there until her uneX-
pected departure from Concord on Sun
day. Jan. 2S 1905. There were held sew
eral great receptions to members of the
Mother church, numbering thousands OF
persons briefly addressed by Mrs Ed
Gy from "a balcony of the house. During
the last decade, however, these recep-
tions had been discontinued.
During the first years of her residence
in Concord, Mrs. Eddy received. a few
whom afterward became prominent in
the church. In 1897 she purchased prop
erty near the State house, which she
used first as "a Christian Science kim
dergarten for teaching the new tongue
of the gospel" On this property, July
IT, 1904, one of the finest church edif1ces
in the state was dedicated under the
| title 1.-The First Church of Christ, Scien-
fist, in Concord, New Hampshire The
structure is said to have cost upwards
Of $4,000, of which Mrs. Eddy PERSONAL
ly gave one-half.
Throughout the time of her residence
at Pleasant View, it was Mrs. Eddy's
custom to take a daily drive, accompa-
MED by Calvin Frye, her secretary. Thus
she became much interested in GOOD
roads and co-operated with the city OF
Concord in building several miles of
concrete and macadam streets.
During Mrs. Eddy's life here she was
the first to respond to Red Cross and
other appeals for aid and made frequent
gifts to local and state charities and ed
ucatonal interests and for public pur-
poses. One of her first benefactions in
Concord was to provide swans for the
ponds in the public parks of the city.
At the last of her residence at Pleas
ant View, Mrs. Eddy almost entirely
withdrew from the public view save for
her daily drives. This gave rise to many
rumors as to her conditions and sur
rounds and reports of her death gained
circulation. Partly as a result of one of
these Investigations to disprove these ru-
mors, suit was brought on March J,
1907, in the name of Mrs. Eddy by her
Newt Friends her son, George Glover
of Lead, S. D., whom she had not seen
for number of years; his daughter,
Mary Baker Glover and George W.
Baker, nephew of Mrs. Eddy, against
ta1, MIN ,hn
were alleged to possess a control over
Mrs. Eddy and her property of which
they were making undue use. Suisse
quently, f. J. Foster Eddy, an adopted
son of Mrs. Eddy and Freerick w.
Baker. another relative. joined the list
of next friends
Former Senator William F.. Chandler
was their principal counsel while Gen
Frank $. Streeter of this city led the
defence.
The case came first under the jurisdic-
ton of Judge Robert NJ. Chamberlain of
the superior court and was by him re-
ferred to three masters. Judge Edgar
Aldrich of the United States court, Dr.
George +. Jelly of Boston and former
Congressman Hosea W. Parks of Clare
|
case these masters interviewed Mrs. Ed
dy at Pleasant View Shortly afterward,
on Aug. n, 1907. the counsel for the
next friends announced the withdraw
al of the suit.
At about The time these proceedings
began, Mrs. Eddy created a perpetual
trust fund of approximately $l,Ooo,0o0.
practically the amount of her estate, and
named her distant relative. Henry NJ.
Baker. of Bow. Archibald Mcclellan of
Boston and Josiah ITernald, Il Concord
banker. as trustees. This trust is still
in force. Prior to this arrangement, Mrs.
Eddy had created a trust fund of $150,000
for the benefit Vi the children of her son.
George w. Glover.
The news of Mrs. Eddy's death first
reached Concord through The Associated
Press The heads of the local church did
not receive the official notification until
afternoon today. and the morning service
ut the local church was held without
knowledge of the death of its leader.