Mary Baker Eddy

EDDY, Mary Baker (née Mary Morse Baker). b. Bow, New Hampshire, 16 July 1821; d. Newton, Massachusetts, 3 December 1910. Mary Morse Baker was born and raised in New Hampshire, one of six children. She was raised a Congregationalist but in childhood questioned her parents’ faith. She was chronically ill as a child but at a young age had already garnered a reputation for healing. She married George Washington Glover in 1843, but was widowed six months later. A second marriage in 1853 to Daniel Patterson ended in 1873, when she divorced him for adultery. In 1877 she married Asa Gilbert Eddy, who died in 1882. She studied healing with Phineas Quimby (1802-1866) whose work impacted on her own...