Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-12-09
MARY BAKER EDDY
Famous Founder of Christian
Science Dead
Author Of "selenee and Health with Key
to the Sorpturesv-One Of Americas
Remarkable Women,

! Chestnut Hill, a suburb of Boston. An
| nouncement of her death was made at
| the morning service of the mother church
| OF the Christian Science faith in Boston
| Sunday. Mrs. Eddy, who was in her
| goth year. had been indsposed several
| days, but as late as Thursday transacted
| some business with one of the officials
| of the Christian Science church. Pneu-
| monia was undoubtedly the direct cause
| or her death. No physician was in at
| tendance, but she was surrounded by the
| students who comprised her household,
| including c. a. Frye, who had been her
| secretary the past 25 years.
Mary Baker Glover Eddy was born in
| Bow, n H., July 16. 1921, the youngest
| OF a family of six children. Her father,
| Mark Baker, was a successful farmer.
descended from Revolutionary and Colo
| NAL heroes and her mother was of
| Scotch ancestry. one of her brothers
a graduate of Dartmouth college, was
| nominated for Congress but died before
| the election took place. AS a child Mary
| Baker was frail impre reasonable, of ardent
religious nature, and much given to read
| ing and composition When she was Is
| the family moved to what is now Tilton
| y. II. In 1Si3 she was married to George
| Washington Glover, the intimate friend
| OF her brother, Samuel Major Glover
and his young wife went to Charleston.
| S. c., where Mr.. Glover had business
| contracts He died in Wilmington, n. c.,
| of yellow fever while there with his wife
| Tor the purpose of securing material for
his building contracts. His Masonic con-
| nections secured friends who escorted the
| young widow to the home of her father in
| Tuton, where she gave birth to a son
| After the marriage Of her father a sec
| ond time this son was placed i'm the care
| or the nurse who had been in attendanccH
| at his birth. In the next 20 years Mrs
| Glover was an invalid much Of the time
| In 40 1l1. hs.4 in. .
| Patterson, a dentist. He was a man of
fine physical proportions. but of a rowing
| disposition. The marriage was not a
| happy one. Or. and Mrs Patterson lived
In Franklin, y. H.. Lynn. Mass. and
| other places. Mrs. Patterson obtained a
| tion.
In 1862, in Portland. Maine, Mrs. Pat
! terson received great benefit, while in "A
| period OF chronic invalidsm, from treat
| ment administered by Dr. Phineas T.
| Quimhy. 1t has been charged that Mrs
| Eddy obtained her system of healing
| from this man, but it is probable that he
| merely aided her in developing a system
| that was essentially her own. Some
| years after this. in 1866. Mrs Pat
| terson had an experience which undoubt-
| edly started her famous career She had
| been taken to her home in Swampscott
| Mass, suffering from internal injuries
| and the shock OF a fall on an lev side
| walk She refused to take the medicine
| prescribed for her by a doctor and under
| took to heal herself by metaphysical
| means. Reading her Bible on the third
| day thereafter, she came upon the story
| OF the healing Of the palsied man. and
arrived at the conviction that there was
a spiritual principle Of healing and 1t was
| being unfoded to her
| She felt herself renewed, and arising
| from her bed dressed herself and stepped
/ fWaN., lg..g..g
| man and a few friends had gathered
When they first saw her their surprise
| was such that they We're almost startled
| into belief that something supernatural
had happened. When they learned the
facts. they urged the patient to return
| to bed She would not yield to them
| and when the doctor called on the fol-
lowing day she showed him his medicines,
untouched, and astonished him with her
| progress.
| In the next few years Mrs Eddy was
| engaged in the practice OF mental healing
| in eastern Massachusetts towns and
| cities. Her great book, Science and
| Health" first appeared in 1875. 1t has been
| rewritten and published in widely differ
| ent form although the teachings are es-
| sentally the same i'm all the works. In
| 1877 Mrs. Eddy's third marriage took
| place to Asa Gilbert Eddy of East Boston
| Mr.. Eddy. who was a useful assistant to
| his wife, died in 1882. Church organiza-
| ton was the next phase of Mrs Eddy's
| activity and after two or three futile at
| tempts Christian Science church was
| established In Boston under the name of
| Church of Christ (Scientist in 1879.
| Beginning in 1881 Mrs. Eddy for some
| time conducted metaphysical college in
| Boston, The Christian Science journal
| first made its appearance in 1888. From
| 1889 until two years ago Mrs Eddy's
| home was in Concord, n II. 1t is re-
| called that before she established herself
| in Concord she settled briefly in Barre
| this state. but left there after a short
| period of residence. In the past two
| years her home had been at Chestnut
| HIM. fashionable suburb of Boston
1t is estimated that Mrs Eddy left
| fortune of $4,000, 600 which will probably
| go to the church. In 1907 she provided
| handsomely for her son, George w
| Glover of Lead, South Dakota, and her
| adopted son, DR.. f. ]. Foster Eddy of
| Waterbury, Vt. At that time she turned
| over to her trustees nearly $4,000
| Christian Science was fourishing and
| beginning to attract great attention in
the early eighties The metaphysical col
| lege in BOSTON was closed in 1889, having
| had some 1000 students during its ex-
| istence. In 1876, the first Christian sci
| ence association had been founded and
the national association was founded in
| 1856. In 1879, the First church of Christ