The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-05
6:rn,vth of Mrs. Eddy's Work

Growth of Mrs. Eddy's Work | Concord, N H., December 4.-The farm upon which Mrs. Eddy was born July 16 | 1921, is but short distance from Con cord SO that many of her childhood days | were snent in this city and she ocasion- ally attended the old North Congregatlon- | al church.
 The house in which she was born was burned in April, 1910
 Mrs. Eddy first took up her residence in | this city in 1889, living on North state
 street until 1892, when she purchased the
 estate subsequently, known as Pleasant View. which is on an eminence between the city proper and St. Pauls school. She
 made many changes and improvements | on the property and lived there until her
 departure to live in the beautiful resi- dence prepared for her at Chestnut hill' l a Boston suburb. This change made on l Sunday, January 26, 1908, was enuirey without previous announcement. mere | were several great receptions at PleaSant l View to members of the mother churcn
 who came up from Boston during their 1 attendance at the annual meetings or the church. | These gatherings, numbering thousands | of persons were briefly addressed pS l Mrs. Eddy from a balcony of the house | During the ,last decade, however, the receptions were discontinued. In the hrs' years of her residence in Concord Mrs | E,ddv received a few students in Christian Science. most of whom afterward be came prominent in the church.
 Property Purchased
 l She purchased the property at Nortl l State street and School street. near the | tate house, in 1897. and remodelled the house there for what she called "Cnris- | tan Science Kindergarten. for teachlls | .af 10
 | few years later the development oi | this property upon ambitious lines was begun and on July IT, 1904, one or ehe l finest church edifices ie the state was | dedicated under the title, The Flrst Church of Christ, Scientist, in concord, N. H." The structure Is salo to nave l cost upward of $200,000. Of this, Mrs l ;5ddv gave one-half and the remainder was contributed by her followers
 While she lived at Pleasant View IL was Mrs Eddy's custom to take @ oally uriNe' accompanied by Calvin Frye her secre- tary, along certain favorite streets Ill the citv and suburbs. Thus she became much irterested in good roads and co-operated ,.ith the city of Concord in building sev- oral miles of concrete and macadam streets. until practically her daily drive was over such roads.
 Drrinr Mrs. Eddy's life here She was the first to respond to Red Cross and other appeals for aid and made 1requeh' oifts to local and state charities and eau oa4ionaI interests and for public purposes. Toward the last part of her residence at plensant View Mrs. Eddy almost entireiy
 withdrew from public appearance save
 for her daily drives. This gave rise to
 many rumors as to her eohoi'ioii anu .
 surroundings, and several times repoI, ,s
 of her death gained eircuiaeion' a,1,anaua os a result of an investigation to oispioNe Inc rumors suit was brought on Marcn l. 1on7 in the name of Mrs. Eddy by her nnex+ friend" her son, George w. GioV- or of Lead. S. D., whom she had not seen for number of years. hls oausn- fer. Mary Baker Glover and George w. aka A nephew of Mrs Eddy, aAinst
 rai,,,n Frye and nine others, who ,verc alleged to possess control over Mrs. Eddy and her property ot wnich thew were making undue use. Supse- e,,entlv 10 I. Foster Eddy, an adopted son of Mrs Eddy and Frederick w.
 Eddy. relative, joined the next friends" cuh,,,ar
 n,as tha principal counsel, while Gen.
 Frank s. Streeter of this city lead the defense. .,,,.,.
 The case came first under the 1uris- diction of Judge Robert M. Champer- lain of the superior court ana was oy Ihim referred to three masters, Judge
 Edgar Aldrich of the United states court. Dr. G. F. Jolly of Boston and ex-
 Congressman H. w. Parks Of Clare mont. After an extended hearing these masters called upon and intervlewed Mrs. Eddy at Pleasant View Shortly afterwards. on August 21, lsof, coun-
 sel for the next friends" announced the withdrawal of the suit.
 Trust Is Created
 At about the time these proceedings began. Mrs Eddy created a trust or ap- nroxilnately S1,000,000, which was not far from the amount of her estate, and named her distant relative. Henry M.
 Baker of Bow, Archibald Mcclellan of
 Boston and Joseph b. Farnald, a Con- cord banker, as trustees. This trust is still in force. Prior to this arrange ment Mrs. Eddy had created trust of $15O,0O0 for the benefit of the chill dren of George M. Glover and this also exists.
 Some months after this withdrawal of the next friends suit it was an-
 nounced that satisfactory financial ar raneements had been made by Mrs.
 Eddy and her trustees with her son ana her foster son. and, last summer Mrs.
 Eddy was visited at Brookline by her
 grandsons George w. Glover and An q i''"
 General Frank S. Streeter, who repre- :
 sol..N. a.s. Eddy in the suit, instituted
 by the next friends" and who conse- uuently had close personal acquaint-
 ance with the Christian Science leader,
 gave out the following statement upon learning of Mrs. Eddys death: