Founder of Christian Science, born at Bow, NH, and educated by private tutors and in the public schools. Brought up a Congregationalist, she thought out and organized a religious sect known as Christian Scientists, began teaching its doctrines in 1867, organized the Church of Christ (Scientist), in Boston, MA, in 1879, and was herself ordained to the ministry in 1881. In the latter year she founded the Mass. Metaphysical College, Boston, and in 1883 founded the Christian Science Journal. She is the author of Science and Health, with key to the Scriptures, which embodies the doctrines she propounds.
