Massachusetts Metaphysical College

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The Massachusetts Metaphysical College was founded in 1881 by Mary Baker Eddy in Boston, Massachusetts, to teach her school of Christianly scientific metaphysical healing that she named Christian Science. Eddy records in the preface of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, her chief work on scientific Christian healing, p. xi, that the college was opened, "under the seal of the Commonwealth, of Massachusetts, a law relative to colleges having been passed which enabled her to get this institution chartered for medical purposes." and it was located at 571 Columbus Avenue, Boston. USA. ^[1] After teaching for almost seven years, Eddy closed this college in 1889 in order to devote herself to the revision of her book, Science and Health, but retained her charter and reopened the College in 1899 as an auxiliary to her Church.^[2]

1 College discussed in the Christian Science textbook
2 Mark Twain discusses the College in his book, "Christian Science"
3 Presidency passes to Judge Septimus J. Hanna in 1910
4 Dittimore list of students taught at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College 1882-1889
5 Notes

[edit] College discussed in the Christian Science textbook

The College's founder, Mary Baker Eddy, in the preface to her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which is the fundamental doctrinal Textbook on Christian Science, outlines a short history of the College as follows:

In 1881, she (Mary Baker Eddy) opened the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in Boston, under the seal of the Commonwealth, a law relative to colleges having been passed, which enabled her to get this institution chartered for medical purposes. No charters were granted to Christian Scientists for such institutions after 1883, and up to that date, hers was the only College of this character which had been established in the United States, where Christian Science was first introduced.

During seven years over four thousand students were taught by the author in this College. Meanwhile she was pastor of the first established Church of Christ, Scientist; President of the first Christian Scientist Association, convening monthly; publisher of her own works; and (for a portion of this time) sole editor and publisher of the Christian Science Journal, the first periodical issued by Christian Scientists. She closed her College, October 29, 1889, in the height of its prosperity with a deep-lying conviction that the next two years of her life should be given to the preparation of the revision of SCIENCE AND HEALTH, which was published in 1891. She retained her charter, and as its President, reopened the College in 1899 as auxiliary to her church. ^[3]

[edit] Mark Twain discusses the College in his book, "Christian Science"

Mark Twain, in his critical and humorous book Christian Science, which was published in January, 1907, mentions an ad run in the Christian Science Journal for September, 1886:

MASSACHUSETTS METAPHYSICAL COLLEGE
REV. MARY BAKER G. EDDY, PRESIDENT
571 Columbus Avenue, Boston

The collegiate course in Christian Science metaphysical healing includes twelve lessons. Tuition, three hundred dollars.

Course in metaphysical obstetrics includes six daily lectures, and is open only to students from this college. Tuition, one hundred dollars.

Class in theology, open (like the above) to graduates, receives six additional lectures on the Scriptures, and summary of the principle and practice of Christian Science, two hundred dollars.

Normal (teachers) class is open to those who have taken the first course at this college; six daily lectures complete the Normal course. Tuition, two hundred dollars.^[4]

[edit] Presidency passes to Judge Septimus J. Hanna in 1910

Upon Eddy's decease in December of 1910, the By-laws of her church stipulated that the vice-president of the College would replace her as the College's President. This person was Judge Septimus J. Hanna who, with his wife, had been early students of Eddy and who occupied more positions of trust in the Christian Science Church than any other individual.

[edit] Dittimore list of students taught at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College 1882-1889

While Eddy stated that she taught over 4000 students at her College, she might have actually meant the sum total of all students taught under her authority as president as the College including the thousands of students taught when the College was reopened as an auxiliary to her Church in 1899 under the Church's Board of Education. By that time, other teachers such as Eddy's adopted son, Ebenezer Foster-Eddy, Edward Ancel Kimball and Judge Septimus J. Hanna had taught many subsequent classes. Kimball, for example, himself, taught over 150 classes. By 1889, her Normal (teachers class) students had also been teaching under her authority and under her signed certificates in the US and overseas. In any case, John V. Dittimore, former director and clerk of her Church and later Eddy critic, gives a far shorter list in his fairly negative biography on Eddy published in 1932. His list is probably limited to those students, at the College, personally taught by Eddy alone, until she turned over the teaching to Kimball and Hanna. In Dittemore's book, Mary Baker Eddy - The Truth and the Tradition, Dittemore's appendix lists the following students:

According to Dittemore, Mary Baker Eddy personally taught the following students at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College from 1882-1889:

[edit] Primary Course

May 12,1882

Mrs. Maria Brown
Mrs. George Horne
Mrs. Hattie D. Jones
Miss Susie M. Lang
Mrs. Delia S. Manley
Seabury T. Manley
Mrs. Mary J. Tucker
August 16,1882
Rev. Charles D. Barbour
Mrs. Clara E. Choate
George D. Choate
Mrs. Sarah J. Crosse
Miss Alice Sibley
October 23, 1882
Mrs. Mary F. Berry
Miss Jennie P. Davis
Perley Green
Miss Mary B. Mourn
Mrs. Amelia Wheeler
Mrs. George W. Whiting
Mrs. George S. Williams
Mrs. Mary E. Wood
January 22, 1883
Mrs. Janet T. Coleman
Mrs. Elsie Grosse
Edward H. Hammond
Edward N. Harris
Mrs. Mary E. Harris
Alfred Lang
Miss Susie M. Lang
Mrs. Annie V. C. Leavitt
Mrs. Janet Marchant
Mrs. (Note 2) Mitchell
Mareelus M. Munroe
Mrs. (Note 2) Smith
----- 1883
Miss Ellen Brown
Richard Palmer
Mrs. Alice B. Poole
Mrs. Laura A. Rand
Mrs. Lydia M. Roaf
Mrs. Rose A. Wigglesworth
----1883
William H. Bradley
Solomon W. North
Mrs. Thomas Patterson
Mrs. Melissa J. Smith
Mrs. Mary J. Tucker
August 20, 1883
Mrs. Mary E. Chandler
Mrs. Montgomery Hunt
Luther M. Marston
S. D. Walker
Mrs. S. D. Walker
November 12, 1883
Mrs. Rachel Bradley
Mrs. L. A. Chipman
Mrs. E. P. Clark
Miss Kate L. Colby
William T. Seaver
Miss Hester Varney
December 27, 1883
Albert B. Dorman
Mrs. Emma C. Hopkins
H. E. Jepson
Mrs. H. E. Jepson
Mrs. Nellie Morton
John M. C. Murphy
Mrs. Jennie Sawyer
Silas J. Sawyer
February 25, 1884
Mrs. Sadie I. Bertram
William H. Bertram
Miss Nellie M. Cate
Levi A. Childs
Mrs. Susan E. Crocker
Mrs. Mary D. Fuller
Mrs. S. E. Heywood
William B. Johnson
C. T. Lord
Mrs. Caroline Dorr Noyes
Miss Sara A. Platt
Horace N. Poole
Mrs. Mary A. Poole
Bradford Sherman
Mrs. M. E. Sherman
Roger Sherman
Mrs. Fannie M. Silsbee
Mrs. Mattie Williams
May 13, 1884 (In Chicago)
Mrs. Olive L. Avery
S. J. Avery, M.D.
Mrs. E. Beach
Miss Isabel A. Beecher
Miss Libbie Berger
Miss Sarah Bickford
J. B. Crocker
Mrs. E. S. Cousen
Mrs. Ursula N. Gestefeld
Mrs. Emma A. McDonald
Mrs. Lovina Milledge
C. F. Morrill
Mrs. C. F. Morrill
Mrs. Mary H. Philbrick
Mrs. Laura E. Sargent
Rev. H. Slade
Benjamin Smith
Mrs. E. P. Vail
George B. Wickersham
In the last five days of the course there were also enrolled
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Swarts
Mr. and Mrs.S. J. Sawyer
Mr. Emerson,
Mrs. Dr. Heegard (Note 2)
September 2, 1884
Mrs. Etta French.
Joseph W. French
Miss Mary A. Gersham
Miss Carrie B. Graham
Miss S. Emma Grey
Mrs. Janette h. Robinson
Mrs. R. J. Robinson
Miss Mary E. Smith
Miss Kate Taylor
November 3, 1884
Henry P. Bailey
Mrs. Mary A. Flagg
Eugene H. Greene
Mrs. Grace A. Greene
Mrs. T. H. Hale
John A. Linfield
Mrs. John A. Linfield
Mrs. P. F. Lynch
Mrs. Dora G. Mayo
Miss Dora M. Mayo
Miss E. P. Peck
George E. Ricker
Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson
December 22, 1884
Mrs-. H. P. Bailey
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Bangs
Herbert H. Bangs
Mrs. George B. Drake
Joseph S. Eastaman
Mrs. Frances A. Freeman
Charles M. Howe
Mrs. Charles M. Howe
F. R. Kimball
Ira 0. Knapp
Mrs. Ira 0. Knapp (Flavia Stickney Knapp)
Mrs. Emma A. McDonald
Mrs. Almeda G. Pendleton
Mrs. Laura E. Sargent
Mrs. Victoria Sargent
Mrs. Josephine C. Woodbury
March 2, 1885
J. Allen Campbell
Mrs. J. Allen Campbell
Miss A. A. Chevailler
Mrs. Mary F. Eastaman
Mrs. Jennie B. Fenn
C. C. Foster
Mrs. C. A. Jones
Mrs. Hannah A. Larminie
Mrs. B. D. Marshall
Miss L. A. Proctor
E. Frank Woodbury
Mrs. E. A. Wyman
April 20, 1885
Edward E. Allen
Mrs. Harriet G. Atwood
C. M. Charter
Mrs. Frank Converse
Rev. A. N. Henry
H. E. Hosley
Mrs. H. E. Hosley
Mrs. Charlotte Ingalls
Mrs. A. D. Kennedy
Mrs. Eldora E. Murphy
Mrs. Samuel Seward
Mrs. B. J. Swett
Charles A. S. Troup
Mrs. Charles A. S. Troup
Rev. Eliza T. Wilkes
Rev. J. W. Winkley
September 14, 1885
Mrs. Mary W. Adams
Edward A. Bailey
Mrs. Mary A. Batchelder
Mrs. J. P. Beckworth
Miss C. Lulu Blackman
Miss Sue E. Bradshaw
James E. Brierly
Mrs. James E. Brierly
Miss Julia M. Burnham
Miss Sarah J. Clark
Miss Mary E. Clements
Mrs. Charles H. Foye
Mrs. Sarah E. Heywood
Mrs. Mary E. Hill
Miss Susan R. Kenny
Ira 0. Knapp
Mrs. Ira 0. Knapp
Mrs. Laura Lathrop
Miss Ella Long
Mrs. Myra M. Phelon
Mrs. Mary H. Plunkett
Mrs. Helen L. Swan
Mrs. Virginia Vaughn
Mrs. Elizabeth Webster
November 16, 1885
Edward P. Adams
Mrs. Edith D. Bailey
Mrs. M. Bettie Bell
William H. Bertram
Mrs. Mattie Bowen
Miss Ellen E. Cross
Mrs. M. A'. De Forest-Brown
Francis J. Fluno, M.D.
Mrs. Francis J. Fluno
Mrs. 0. P. Gifford
Rev. 0. P. Gifford
Mrs. Grace A. Green
Miss M. Emma Morse
Mrs. M. R. Nutter
Miss L. A. Proctor
George E. Ricker
J. Newton Stone
Mrs. J. W. Winkley
March 29, 1886
Rev. Joseph Adams
Mrs. Emma D. Behan
George H. Bradford
Mrs. George H. Bradford
Mrs. Anna Chamberlin
Miss Fanny L. Clark
Miss Lucy A. Clarke
Erwin L. Colman
Charles W. Crosse
Mrs. George B. Day
Rev. George B. Day
John P. Filbert
Mrs. John P. Filbert
Rev. William I. Gill
Miss Mary E. Hampson
Mrs. Anna Maria Harvey
Mrs. Harriet W. Jones
Mrs. Pamela J. Leonard
Miss Katie H. Malone
Miss Martha E. S. Morgan
Gideon P. Noyes
Miss Sarah A. Pine
Mrs. Julia E. Prescott
Turner N. Seward
Mrs. Turner N. Seward
George W. Wheeler
Mrs. George W. Wheeler
Mrs. Mary R. Whitson
August 30, 1886
Mrs. J. A. D. Adams, M.D.
Mrs. David Austin
Mrs. Mary V. Blain
Mrs. Margaret C. Burgess
Mrs. S. L. Davidson
Mrs. Ruth B. Ewing
Mrs. Frances A. Freeman
Elizabeth J. French
Miss Mary E. Graves
Mrs. Malinda J. Lancaster
Mrs. Mary J. Lewis
John A. Moore
Mrs. John A. Moore
Rev. J. S. Norvell
Miss M. Anna Osgood
Mrs. Kate S. Peirce
Mrs. Mary D. Porterfield
Mrs. Jane M. Rand
Fremont D. Snider
Mrs. Fremont D. Snider
Mrs. F. E. Stich
Mrs. Emma A. Thompson
Rev. J. H. Veasey
Rev. H. C. Waddell
Miss Lucinda Willsie
Mrs. A. G. Wilson
January 10, 1887
Mrs. Addie M. Allen
Edward P. Bates
Mrs. Edward P. Bates
Mrs. Lucy K. Bissell
Henry Bradley, M.D.
Mrs. Henry Bradley
Miss Mary B. Bull
Stephen A. Chase
Mrs. Stephen A. Chase
Joseph L. Churchill
Mrs. Joseph L. Churchill
Miss Emma A. Estes
Miss M. Nettie Hall
B. W. Hight
Mrs. Lillia S. Hight
Miss Flora M. Lamson
(one lesson)
Mrs. Maria B. Newsomb
Mrs. Ann M. Otis
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Shepherd
(one lesson)
E. W. Ticknor
Miss Josephine Tyter
Miss Florence Whiteside
May 2, 1887
Thomas A. Benbow, M.D.
Mrs. Elconora B. Benford
Mrs. Sarah E. Benford
William H. H. Benford
Mrs. C. C. Bigelow
Mrs. Cemantha A. D. Brown Mrs. J. A. Brown
H. C. Buhl
Mrs. Elizabeth Buswell
Ezra M. Buswell
Mrs. Chloe Ann Dow
Herbert L. Dunbar
Mrs. Mary E. Dunbar
Alfred Farlow
William S. Farlow
Winslow C. Fiske
Mrs. Winslow C. Fiske
Mrs. H. D. Jones
Frances 0. Leonard
John F. Linscott
Miss Mary Macmillan
Frank E. Mason
George A. Miles
Mrs. Mary S. Moore
Mrs. Maud E. Morton
Henry A. Reynolds, M.D.
Mrs. Louisa Scribner
William A. Smith
Mrs. William A. Smith
Mrs. Emma G. Strong
Charles A. S. Troup
W. H. Walling
Mrs. W. H. Walling
Mrs. Margaret A. Watts
November 7, 1887
David Anthony
Joseph Armstrong
Mrs. Mary E. Armstrong
A. M. Crane
E. J. Foster, M.D.
Robert C. Hannon
J. C. Light
William H. Perkins
Mrs. William H. Perkins
Miss Mary C. Piper
Henry A. Reynolds, M.D.
Miss Elizabeth Saville
Mrs. Adell Seymour
Abbot E. Smith
Mrs. Abbot E. Smith
Walter J. Vinall
Mrs. Ella E. Williams
March 5, 1888
Miss Marie M. Adams
Mrs. A. L. Ames
Erastus N. Bates
Mrs. Erastus N. Bates
Mrs. Harriet L. Betts
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Burcbard
Miss Jennie.L. Chaffee
Graves Colles
Mrs. Graves Colles
C. R. Courtney
Mrs. Nellie Courtney
Mrs. Harriet S. Cowan
Miss Ella M. Craig
Mrs. E. W. Crawford
Miss Anna Dodge
Mrs. Marie Fancher
Mrs. Christiana D. Frye
Mrs. Caroline W. Frame
Mrs. Eldora 0. Gragg
Mrs. Mary E. Keeley
Edward A. Kimball
Mrs. Edward A. Kimball
Charles F. Kinzel
Mrs. Hannah A. Larminie
B. A. Lillie
Mrs. B. A. Lillie
Miss Mary K. Lincoln
Mrs. Emily M. Meadcr
Miss Phebe A. Mendenhall
Miss Mary E. Miller
Mrs. Sarah A. Moore
Mrs. T. Emily Moore
J. H. Murray
Mrs. Sarah E. Murray
Mrs. Nellie H. Parker
Mrs. Belle Pew
Miss Lila F. Scbaffenburg
Mrs. Elizabeth P. Skinner
Mrs. Helen A. Smith
(one lesson)
Mrs. Helen P. Smith
Mrs. H. F. Stevens
Miss Nancy Stilson
Mrs. A. L. Stone
Mrs. Abbie B. Trego
Mrs. Hattie L. Vihitaker
Reuben Whitaker
September 17, 1888
Miss Lou Aldrich
Mrs. A. B. Austin
Mrs. E. M. Bacon
E. W. Baxter
Mrs. E. W. Baxter
Mrs. Ellen Bouton
Miss Jennie L. Bryan
Miss Alice C. Churchill
William Clark
Mrs. A. E. Connelly
Mrs. M. E. Crane
Mrs. M. A. Cummings
Mrs. Mary E. Dillingham
Paul Dillingham
Mrs. A. Dorland
Mrs. Kate E. Ewing
Mrs. Julia Field-King
A.P. French
Frank W. Gale
James M/ Gano
Mrs. Anna F. Gennet
Mrs. Ella W. Hoag
Mrs. Sarah E. Jones
Miss Eva Kellogg
Joseph G. Mann
Mrs. Mary E. C. McCoy
Mrs. H. G. McVicker
Rev. Lamson P. Norcross
Miss Myra Overman
Ira W. Packard
Mrs. Ira W. Packard
Oliver M. Parsons
Mrs. Oliver M. Parsons
Miss Clara M; S. Shannon
Mrs. C. H. Shipman
Mrs. Lillian E. Stoddard
Mrs. Harriet W. Tirrell
Miss Emelyn M. Tobey
P. N. Trahn
Mrs. P. N. Trahn
G. A. Walther
Mrs. E. R. Wertz
Mrs. Cordelia V. Willey.
November 12, 1888
Mrs. E. M. Bacon
Frank Bailey
Joshua F. Bailey
Mrs. Amanda J. Baird
Miss L. Ballinger
Mrs. Martha H. Bogue
Mrs. Margaret Bolter
Mrs. Sallie N. Chandler
Rev. J. F. Clymer
Mrs. Kate S. Corning
Mrs. H. M. Evans
Mrs. Sarah J. Holbrook
Mrs. Ella M. Holton
Mrs. Emilie B. Hulin
Mrs. F. E. Mason
Miss Emma McLauthlin
Miss Laura C. Nourse
Mrs. Fannie L. Pierce
Mrs. Anna H. Rogers
Ward B. Rogers
Mrs. Kate E. Rousseau
Mrs. Emma K. Sawyer
Mrs. A. C. Sellers
M. B. Sellers
Rev. E. F. Strickland
Mrs. Julia W. Tryon
Mrs. J. N. Ward
William H. Wing
February 25, 1889
Frank Bailey
Joshua F. Bailey
Mrs. Helen A. Baker
Miss Hannah A. Balkam
Mrs. Sarah C. Barney
Edward P. Bates
Mrs. Edward P. Bates
Mrs. Emma D. Behan
Mrs. Amanda D. Belcher
Mrs. Eleonora B. Benford
Mrs. Helen W. Bingham
Rev. Jesse B. Broadbent
Fred W. Bunnell
Mrs. Nina Bunnell
Mrs. Martha E. Burns
Mrs. Lydia J. Calhoun
Mrs. Henrietta E. Chanfrau
Miss Lydia R. Chase
Edward C. Clarke
Mrs. Myra F. Clymer
Miss Mary E. Collier
Miss Mary E. Crawford
Miss Mary Alice Dayton
Rev. D. A. Easton
Miss Emma Easton
Mrs. Margaret E. Easton
Alfred Farlow
Miss Emma L. Farlow
Miss Sarah A. Farlow
William S. Farlow
Mrs. Jennie B. Fenn
Mrs. Mary E. Hardy
Thomas W. Hatten
Mrs. Mary B. Hinckley
Mrs. Susan R. K. Hoyt
Edward A. Kimball
Mrs. Edward A. Kimball
Mrs. Martha L. Lambert
Mrs. Julia M. Landon
Mrs. Catherine G. McBean
Mrs. Alma S. Metcalf
Ralph Moody
James A. Neal
Mrs. Helen A. Nixon
Paul Nixon
William G. Nixon
Mrs. J. C. Otterson
William H. Perkins
Mrs. William H. Perkins
Mrs. Mary E. Pope
Henry L. Putnam
Charles A. Roberts
Mrs. Charles A. Roberts
Miss Nemi Robertson
John C. Ryan
Mrs. John C. Ryan
Mrs. Rebecca L. Stebbins
Miss (Note 2) Stebbins
Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson
Mrs. H. F. Stevens
Mrs. Estella W. Stimpson
Mrs. Carrie H. Snider
Sampson D. Stiles
Miss Marguerite F. Sym
Miss Lucretia A. Veazey
Miss Elizabeth T. Wendland
Miss Gwendoline Woodbury
(one lesson)

[edit] Normal (Teachers) Courses

August 8, 1884

Miss Julia S. Bartlett
Mrs. Mary F. Berry
Arthur T. Buswell
Calvin A. Frye
Mrs. A. V. C. Leavitt
Mrs. Delia S. Manley
L. M. Marston
Mrs. Mary W. Munroe
Mrs. H. P. Read
Mrs. Melissa J. Smith

February 16, 1885
Miss Ellen Brown
Mrs. Janet T. Coleman
Albert B. Dorman
Edward H. Hammond
Miss Susie M. Lang
Mrs. Caroline Dorr Noyes
Bradford Sherman
Roger Sherman

February 22, 1886
Mrs. Edith D. Bailey
Mrs. Mary A. Batchelder
William H. Bradley
Miss Ellen E. Cross
Mrs. M. A. De Forest-Brown
Mrs. E. N. Harris
Mrs. Hannah A. Larminie
Miss Dora M. Mayo
John M. C. Murphy
Mrs. M. R. Nutter
Mrs. R. J. Robinson
Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson
Mrs. Josephine C. Woodbury

May 3, 1886
Edward A. Bailey
Mrs-. Elizabeth S. Bangs
Miss Isabel A. Beecher
Miss Sarah F. Bickford
Miss Sue E. Bradshaw
Mrs. Jennie B. Fenn
C. C. Foster
Miss Minnie B. Hall
Mrs. Sarah D. Howe
Mrs. Laura Lathrop
Seabury T. Manley
Mrs. Lovina Milledge
Mrs. Mary H. Philbrick
George E. Ricker
Mrs. Lydia M. Roaf
Mrs. Laura E. Sargent
Silas J. Sawyer
Mrs. Samuel Seward
October 4, 1886
Mrs. George W. Adams
Mrs. J. A. D. Adams
Rev. Joseph Adams
Mrs. Sarah G. Baker
Mrs. C. A. Beecher
Mrs. M. Bettie Bell
Rev. George B. Day
T. H. Donahue
Mrs. Elizabeth J. French
Mrs. Grace A. Greene
Mrs. Pamela J. Leonard
Mrs. Emma A. McDonald
Mrs. M. Anna Osgood
Mrs. Almeda Pendleton
Mrs. Victoria H. Sargent
Mrs. Jennie E. Sawyer
Sara W. Spaulding
A. G. Stahl
J. Newton Stone
Mrs. Elizabeth Webster
George B. Wickersham
February 7, 1887
Mrs. Sophia E. Avery
Mrs. Mary A. Bagley
Mrs. Emma Behan
Miss Antoinette P. Belden
Mrs. C. C. Bigelow
Mrs. Lucy H. Bissell
Mrs. D. Eloise Brownell
Mrs. E. P. Clark
Edward H. Collins
Mrs. Nellie Courtney
Miss Sarah M. Cowan
Miss Anna Crawford
Mrs. Mary A. Eastaman
Mrs. Clara M. Evans
John P. Filbert
Francis J. Fluno, M.D.
Mrs. Grace A. Greene
Mrs. Anna Maria Harvey
Mrs. Harriet W. Jones
Mrs. Susie E. Kirby
Mrs. Annie M. Knott
Mrs. J. H. Lewis
(two lessons)
John F. Linscott
Mrs. C. R. Marshall
Mrs. Mary P. Nichols
Rev. J. S. Norvell
Mrs. Emma L. Palmer
Miss Sarah A. Pine
Mrs. Mary D. Porterfield
Mrs. Adell Seymour
Mrs. Mary E. Spooner
Edward E. Springer
Mrs. Anna E. Warner
George W. Wheeler
October 30, 1887
Mrs. E. M. H. Ashton
Edward P. Bates
Mrs. Edward P. Bates
Mrs. W. F. Bennett
Mrs. C. L. Boyden
James E. Brierly
Mrs. K. W. Clark
Mrs. Nellie B. Eaton
Miss Emma A. Estes
Mrs. Ruth B. Ewing
Alfred Farlow
Mrs. Berenice H. Goodall
Mrs. C. A. Jones
Mrs. Malinda J. Lancaster
Miss E. L. Lane
Frank E. Mason
Mrs. Annie R. Michael
John A. Moore
Mrs. X. L. Otis
Mrs. Eliza Patterson
Horace N. Poole
Mrs. Mary F. Purple
Fremont D. Snider
Mrs. Fremont D. Snider
Miss Mary E. Southworth
Mrs. Ella P. Sweet
Mrs. Maria E. Tallman
Miss Emelyn M. Tobey
Miss Josephine Tyter
January 30,1888
Miss M. D. Daniels
Mrs. Ella L. Dench
Charles M. Howe
Mrs. Frances A. Freeman
Mrs. H. Elizabeth Roberts
Mrs. Adelia P. Hanson
Miss Lizzie T. Harmony
Edward N. Harris
Mrs. Salome Harris
Mrs. Elizabeth P. Skinner
Mrs. Amanda L. Willoughby

[edit] Metaphysical Obstetrics

June 6,1887

Mrs. Mary M. W. Adams
Mrs. Sophia E. Avery
Miss Isabel A. Beecher
Mrs. Mary F. Berry
Joseph S. Eastaman
Mrs. Jennie B. Fenn
Eugene H. Greene
Ira 0. Knapp
Mrs. Hannah A. Larminie
Mrs. Delia S. Manley

John M. C. Murphy
Hanover P. Smith
Mrs. Elizabeth Webster
George B. Wickersham

December 5,1887

Mrs. Mary M. W. Adams
Miss Julia S. Bartlett
Mrs. Emma D. Behan
Mrs. M. Bettie Bell
Miss Sarah J. Clark
Mrs. Janet T. Coleman

Mrs. Nannie G. Davidson
Mrs. Laura Lathrop
Mrs. A. V. C. Leavitt
Mrs. Ellen B. Linscott
Mrs. Emma A. McDonald
Mrs. Mary W. Munroe
Mrs. Caroline Dorr Noyes
Mrs. J. E. Robinson
Mrs. Laura E. Sargent
Mrs. Emma A. Thompson
Mrs. Elizabeth Webster

The name of Mrs. Abby H. Corner is omitted as it has seemed impossible to learn the exact class which she attended.
First name unrecorded ^[5]

While the Bates-Dittemore book is largely critical of Eddy, Dittemore was at one time a Clerk and Director of the Mother Church in Boston and had access to the above information for almost ten years. Numerous individual dates and students have been verified by additional documentary evidence such as the Memoirs of Martha Harris Bogue and Janet Coleman published by Gilbert Carpenter.