The Influential Life of Mary Eddy Baker
Mary Ann Morse Baker Glover Patterson Eddy is an American writer and spiritual teacher. She was the founder of the Christian Science, an author to the book Science and Health, a religious leader, and a Christian religious reformer. Many people looked up to Mary, and they still do today. Mary wrote and published many books and helped many people during her lifetime of 89 years.
Mary Eddy Baker was born in Bow, New Hampshire on July 16th, 1821, to the proud parents of Mark Baker and Abigail Bernard Ambrose Baker. Mary was the youngest of the six children that her parents had together. Growing up, Mary discovered that treating sick people/animals was something that she enjoyed doing. After Mary turned 17, she decided to join the Congregationalist Church at Sanbornton Bridge. Around that time, Mary was also getting her education at Pembroke Academy. There, she once calmed down a lunatic, while he allowed himself to be taken into custody without resistance.…show more content… Her brother passed away when she was 20. Her first marriage to George Washington Glover ended in a tragedy when he died, only six months after they got married. At the time Mary was 22 and pregnant with their first child (George Washington Glover, Jr.). She went from writing pieces for the New Hampshire patriot to working as a substitute teacher- it was very hard for her being a widow. Things did not seem to be getting better because in 1849, her mother and her third husband (Asa Gilbert Eddy) died within a span of three months. She had a son with him named Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy. Her father soon remarried to Elizabeth Duncan, while Mary wanted to regain some stability by marrying, again, to Daniel Patterson- that marriage didn’t last very long for Mary and Daniel. It eventually ended in
