The Prescott daily news., 1910-12-07
PNEUMONIA TAKES FOUNDER AND HEAD OF CHRISTIAN
 SCIENCE CHURCH.
NOT AWARE END WAS NEAR
Was Conscious Almost to the Last and Said She Felt Tired No Succession to
 Leadership.

Boston, Dec. 6.-Thcre will be no successor as the leader of Christian Science to Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, who died in her ninCtlath year. Sue cession to the leadership is not open to question:" said Eugene R. Cox, chairman of the publication commit tee. Mrs. Eddy can have no sue cessor. Christian Scientists the world founder and discoverer of the relig- ion she taught. There can not be two founders of a religion.
 Mrs. Eddy breathed her last in her handsome home in Chestnut Hill, a fashionable suburb. She was con- scious until near the end, when she fell asleep and so passed away. A few moments before she had spoken of feeling tired, but suffered no pain.
 No Physician Summoned.
 A physician was not called to Mrs. Eddy in her last illness. When the end came the students of her house hold were giving her the treatment she, the teacher, had prescribed. Around her were grouped those who had been closest to her for years. A few hours after her death, iR compli- ance with the state law. Dr. George l.. West. a district medical examiner. was called to her home.
 Natural causes explain the end" said pr. West Later he added Pneumonia was the immediate cause of death.
 The aged woman's final illness was brief. Only last Thursday she drove near Chestnut Hill reservoir in her famous closed carriage, drawn by a span of handsome black horses. Her vitality, sapped by years, could not rally from the depressing attack of pneumonia.
 III Less Than a Week.
 Dr. West made the following state ment:
 "I was called to the home of Mrs. Eddy and was met at the door by Calvin R. Frye and others of the household. who directed me to bed chamber on the second floor. Here l found the body of woman about 90 years old lying on the bed, her hands crossed over her breast. The face was somewhat wasted, but kind ly and in repose. l talked with Frye, who said:
 Mrs. Eddy had been in error about a week and passed away very quietly Frye described the symptoms and spoke of an inflammation of the chest, which led me to the conclu- sion that pneumonia had been the con- tributary cause of death"
 Born in New Hampshire.
 Mary Baker Glover Eddy's maiden name was Mary A. Moore Baker ana she was born in the hamlet of Bow, N. H.. July 16, 1921. In her official biography Mrs. Eddy claims direct de scent from the Scottish McNeils, and up to the time of her death that fam ily's coat of arms appeared on her stationery and was engraved upon her seal. The fact is, however that the noble AcNeils do not figure in her ancestry. For more than 200 years  humble New England farmers.
 Mark Baker, her father, was strong and eccentric character. From him the future discoverer and founder of Christian Science inherited pas sionate, dominating and headstrong natue.
 There were six chiidren-Abigail, Martha, Samuel. Albert, Mary and George. All inherited the family qual- ity of good looks; all were high tenn pered and foreful, in varying degrees.
 Bloomington, H., Dec. Cit will cost pr. Ernest Mammen $500 for sewing up sponge in the abdominal cavity of Mrs Carrie Smith. The jury in the third trial brought in verdict against the surgeon. She won all three trials in the lower court, the appellate sending the case back after the second trial was appealed