Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-12-08
mrs. MARY BAKER EDDY DIES Al
HER HOME IN CHESTNUT
HILL, BOSTON.
PNEUMONIA CAUSE Of OEATt
setsrsst'ns and Remarkable carrsG,
sf the Woman Who Founded
New Re-
Ii0ion.

oA,sseiaa Science has passed away At
~ home h Chestnut Hill.
Neesral causes" explains The
aasa, according 10 DR.. George l.
Vsse. district medical examiner, VIZ
go summoned few hears after Nra.
1ddy 1asssA away. Later DR.. Wen
AIDED that The moro Immediate ssuee
w.s probably pneumonia.
Tie news Of Mrs. Dddy's death va
Da4s known simultaneously BY Jules
Ch6erd p. Smith. first reader Of the
psthsr church 1t the close OF tie
nsraiag service, and by Alfred Far
~. OF the Christian Science publics,
~ committee, IN . statement to IL
DBsss.
According to Mr.. Tarlow, Nrs. Ed.
~ passed away at 1o:46 o'clock Sat.
nrday night.
"shs had been indisposed about nine
1Ays, said Mr.. Farlow's statement.
but had been up and dressed and as
nte AZ Thursday transacted some
business with one Of the officials OF
the Christian Science church.
saturday night she fell quietly
asleep and those around her could At
1rst hardly realize that she had gone.
Her thought was clear until the last
and she left no final messages.
mo physician was in attendance,
but she had the assistance of the stud.
snts who comprised her household,
With her at the time of her departure
we're Mr.. Calvin A. Frye, Mrs Laura
e. Sargent, Mrs. Ella S. Rathvon, Rev.
Irving C. Tomlison, her corresponding
secretary, VIM. R. Rathvon and her
secretary, Adam H. Dickey.
Burial Service to Be Simple.
mo arrangements regarding the
time or place of her burial have yet
been decided upon. It is we'll known
to her household that she believed in
simplicity on such occasions and in
compliance with this knowledge. it is
expected that the service will be pri-
vate and of simple nature, consist
ing probably of prayer and readings
from the Bible with some brief selec-
tons from the Christian Science text
book. Only her relatives, her house
hold and the officials of the church
are expected to be in attendance.
There having been no physician in
attendance, DR.. George L. West, of
Newton Center medical examiner for
the district, was called early Sunday
morning. DR.. West, after investiga-
ton, pronounced the death due to ma.
tural causes, and issued the custom
AIRY certificate.
"A telegram was sent to her son,
George W. Glover, of Lead, S. D., ap-
prising him of his mothers demise and
requesting information as to his at
tendance, and that of his family
Mrs. Eddy was born in Bow, N. H.,
July 16, 1921 and was, therefore, in
her ninetieth year,
Her life began among the granite
foothills Of New Hampshire Her
father, Mark Baker, was farmer,
and descendant of revolutionary and
colonial heroes, while her mother was
OF Scottish ancestry.
Her education in little schools, and
later at the Pembroke academy, was
supplemented by what she gathered
from discussion of religious matters
at the family fireside, when several
we'll known clergymen called to talk
over church matters with her father
In the early forties George Wash
ington Glover became associated with
result Mary Baker and he were mar
ried Christmas in 1843 at Fulton, N.
H. The Glovers went to the south
where Mrs. Eddy saw slavery in it's
worst forms, and there, the June after
her marriage, she was left widow.
Returning to New Hampshire she gave
birth to her son. George Washington
Glover, in September
In Literary Work.
Mary Baker Glover spent the next
few years with her sister, Abigail,
and other relatives in New Hampshire,
and began literary work with several
articles on her observations of slavery
in the South She also taught school,
About 1850 wave OF spiritua!!sm
swept over New England, which drew
her attention to some extent After
nine years of widowhood Mrs. Eddy
was married to DR.. Daniel Patterson,
4 New Hampshire dentist. This mar
rage was not happy one. However,
the relationship was kept up for 20
years, when it was severed by divorce.
A notable event of Mrs. Eddy's lie
was her meeting in 1862 with Phineas
Quinby, a mesmeric healer at the In
ternational hotel in Portland, Me
Quinby. * II, as the son of black
smith, $cribed at the time of
his NEE. IL with Mrs. Eddy as a
scrswd. little man, Of argumentatiye
disposition and logged determination.
From acquaintance with him Mrs. Ed
Ay became inbued with metaphysical
Meas and began career In that direc:
lion which made her one Of the most
famous Of the worlds mental healers
After spending two years in Port
laal. Mrs. Patterson rsjoined her hue