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Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy was an American religious leader and author, who in 1879 founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, the Mother Church of the Christian Science movement. 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.
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culture · American founder of Christian Science (1821–1910) · writer · author · theologian · also Mary Baker Eddy, Mary Baker, Mary Baker Glover, Mary Baker G. Eddy, Mary Baker Glover Eddy, Eddy
Born 16 July 1821 · Died 3 December 1910 · Q235069
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: Mary Baker Eddy : the years of authority / Robert Peel
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insider.si.edu: Mary Baker Eddy
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2023· 2 entries
The Daily News of Newburyport: Mary Baker Eddy Historic House open for tours
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The Daily News of Newburyport: Mary Baker Eddy Historic House reopens for tours
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2014· 1 entry
By Smithsonian Magazine, and her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures was ranked as one of the "75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World" by the Women's National Book Association in 1992
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,646 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Published “tRNAscan-SE: A Program for Improved Detection of Transfer RNA Genes in Genomic Sequence” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 16,108 times.
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1995).
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Eddy was elected to the National Women's Hall of Fame as the first American woman to have founded a worldwide religion
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1983· 1 entry
Psychologists Theodore Barber and Sheryl C
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1962· 1 entry
By order of the church's board of directors
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1932· 2 entries
Dittemore wrote in 1932 that Baker sought to break Eddy's will with harsh punishment, although her mother often intervened; in contrast to the strict religiosity of her father, Eddy's mother was described as devout, quiet, light-hearted and nurturing, and a benevolent spiritual influence on Eddy in her formative years.
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That Baker sought to break Eddy's will with harsh punishment, although her mother often intervened; in contrast to the strict religiosity of her father, Eddy's mother was described as devout, quiet, light-hearted and nur
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1921· 1 entry
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
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1910· 3 entries
At Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Died 1910-12-03.
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To Christian Science versus Spiritualism
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1908· 2 entries
At the age of 87, she founded The Christian Science Monitor, a daily newspaper
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And three religious magazines: the Christian Science Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, and The Herald of Christian Science
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1907· 2 entries
The New York World sponsored a lawsuit, known as "The Next Friends suit", which journalist Erwin Canham described as "designed to wrest from [Eddy] and her trusted officials all control of her church and its activities
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Arthur Brisbane interviewed Eddy
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1898· 1 entry
Which became the publishing home for numerous publications launched by her and her followers
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1895· 1 entry
Ordained the Bible and Science and Health as the pastor
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1894· 1 entry
An edifice for The First Church of Christ, Scientist was completed in Boston
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1892· 2 entries
At Eddy's direction, the church reorganized as The First Church of Christ, Scientist
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Eddy was made the leader of the church as "Pastor Emeritus"
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1891· 2 entries
Eddy added the chapter, Christian Science and Spiritualism
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That she was 12 when this happened, and that she had discussed the idea of predestination with the pastor during the examination for her membership; this may have been an attempt to mirror the story of a 12-year-old Jesu
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1883· 1 entry
A monthly magazine aimed at the church's members and, in 1898, the Christian Science Sentinel, a weekly religious periodical written for a more general audience, and the Herald of Christian Science, a religious magazine
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1882· 1 entry
Eddy publicly claimed that her last husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy, had died of "mental assassination"
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1881· 2 entries
Founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, where she taught approximately 800 students between the years 1882 and 1889, when she closed it
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Mary Baker Eddy started the Massachusetts Metaphysical College with a charter from the state which allowed her to grant degrees
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1879· 2 entries
Founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, the Mother Church of the Christian Science movement
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And her students established the Church of Christ, Scientist, "to commemorate the word and works of our Master [Jesus], which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing
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1877· 1 entry
The two were wed, and she became Mary Baker Eddy in a small ceremony presided over by a Unitarian minister
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1875· 1 entry
In a book entitled Science and Health (years later retitled Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures) which she called the textbook of Christian Science, after several years of offering her healing method
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1870· 1 entry
In which she would teach him how to heal, and he would take patients
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1868· 1 entry
In the Spiritualist paper The Banner of Light
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1866· 4 entries
The day after Eddy finished her care with Dr
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While living in Lynn, Massachusetts, Eddy slipped and fell on a patch of ice
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Shortly after Eddy's father
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After which she boarded for four years with several families in Lynn, Massachusetts and elsewhere
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1862· 1 entry
During the American Civil War, Patterson was tasked with delivering money to the front, but was captured at Bull Run and imprisoned, managing to escape but increasingly abandoning his wife
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1861· 1 entry
Patterson, wrote to mesmerist Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, who reportedly cured people without medicine, asking if he could cure his wife
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1859· 1 entry
The Patterson couple was evicted, and moved into a boarding house in Rumney, New Hampshire
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1851· 1 entry
George Washington Glover II was sent to live permanently with Mahala Sanborn in New Hampshire, which Eddy would later attribute to a plot to separate her from her child
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1844· 1 entry
Her first husband George Washington Glover (a friend of her brother Samuel) died after six months of marriage
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1838· 1 entry
When she was 17, according to church records published by Cather and Milmine
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1836· 1 entry
When Eddy was about 14 to 15 years old, she moved with her family to the town of Sanbornton Bridge, New Hampshire, approximately twenty miles (32 km) north of Bow
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1821· 3 entries
Born 1821-07-16.
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In a farmhouse in Bow, New Hampshire to farmer Mark Baker (d
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Eddy was born Mary Morse Baker on July 16, 1821, in a farmhouse in Bow, New Hampshire to farmer Mark Baker (d. 1865) and his wife Abigail Barnard Baker, née Ambrose (d. 1849).
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