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Mary Baker Eddy

Mary Baker Eddy (nee Baker; July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was an American religious leader and author who founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, in New England in 1879. She also founded The Christian Science Monitor in 1908, and three religious magazines: the Christian Science Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, and The Herald of Christian Science. She wrote numerous books and articles, the notable of which were Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and Manual of The Mother Church. Other works were edited posthumously into the Prose Works Other than Science and Health.

Mary Baker Eddy

Mary Morse Baker

(1821-07-16)July 16, 1821
Bow, New Hampshire, U.S.

December 3, 1910(1910-12-03) (aged 89)

Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

Mary Baker Glover, Mary Patterson, Mary Baker Glover Eddy, Mary Baker G. Eddy

Founder of Christian Science

Science and Health (1875)

George Washington Glover
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(m. 1843; died 1844)​
Daniel Patterson
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(m. 1853; div. 1873)​
Asa Gilbert Eddy
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(m. 1877; died 1882)​

George Washington Glover II

    • Mark Baker (father)
    • Abigail Ambrose Baker (mother)

Henry M. Baker (cousin)

1855–1860 – Hall's Brook Road, North Groton, New Hampshire

1860–1862 – Stinson Lake Road, Rumney, New Hampshire

1865–1866 – 23 Paradise Road, Swampscott, Massachusetts

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1868,1870 – 277 Main Street, Amesbury, Massachusetts

1868–1870 – 133 Central Street, Stoughton, Massachusetts

1875–1882 – , Lynn, Massachusetts (NRHP-listed in 2021)

8 Broad Street

1889–1892 – , Concord, New Hampshire (NRHP-listed in 1982)

62 North State Street

1908–1910 – , Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (NRHP-listed in 1986)

400 Beacon Street

In 1921, on the 100th anniversary of Eddy's birth, a 100-ton (in rough) and 60–70 tons (hewn) pyramid with a 121 square foot (11.2 m2) footprint was dedicated on the site of her birthplace in Bow, New Hampshire.[146] A gift from James F. Lord, it was dynamited in 1962 by order of the church's board of directors. Also demolished was Eddy's former home in Pleasant View, as the Board feared that it was becoming a place of pilgrimage.[147] Eddy is featured on a New Hampshire historical marker (number 105) along New Hampshire Route 9 in Concord, New Hampshire.[148]


Several of Eddy's homes are owned and maintained as historic sites by the Longyear Museum and may be visited (the list below is arranged by date of her occupancy):[149]

student of Eddy and vice-president of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College

Septimus J. Hanna

student of Eddy, early Christian Scientist and lone person to leave an audio recording of his hearing Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at the age of nine.

William R. Rathvon

a child when the church was in its formative years. Later, he was a teacher and also lectured for 21 years. His father was one of the first Directors of The Mother Church. Knapp's Book, The Destiny of the Mother Church, which was rejected by the Church but privately published, was quite controversial, and Knapp's opinions of Eddy remain controversial to this day in the Christian Science Church.

Bliss Knapp

pastor and later First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist (New York, New York), excommunicated by the Mother Church in 1909.

Augusta Emma Stetson

Mary Baker Eddy Library

and Basic teachings of Christian Science, christianscience.com

Mary Baker Eddy

The Longyear Museum

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Mary Baker Eddy

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Mary Baker Eddy

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Mary Baker Eddy

Norwood, Arlisha. "". National Women's History Museum. 2017.

Mary Eddy