James Henry Wiggin
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James Henry Wiggin (May 14, 1836 Boston - November 3, 1900) was a Unitarian minister and editor. He edited editions of Science and Health, as well as other of her writings, for Mary Baker Eddy.
Biography
He studied at Tufts College, and graduated in 1861 from Meadville Theological School, becoming a Unitarian minister in 1862. After serving in five pulpits in Massachusetts, in 1875 he moved to New York City where he edited the Liberal Christian. By 1876 he was back in Boston, and by 1881 his agnosticism compelled him to leave the ministry. In 1885, he began working as an editor for Mary Baker Eddy, where he continued until 1891 when philosophical differences separated them. Among other tasks during his tenure with Eddy, he worked on two editions (c. 1885 and 1890) of Science and Health, a draft of Retrospection and Introspection and informally edited the Christian Science Journal (1887-1889).[1]
Family
In 1864, he married Laura Emma Newman of Brattleboro, Vermont.[1] Their son Albert H. Wiggin was a noted banker.
References
- 1 2 Ernest Sutherland Bates (1936). "Wiggin, James Henry". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Further reading
- New York World, November 4 and 5, 1906. Article by Wiggin on his relationship with Eddy.
- Georgine Milmine (1909). The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the history of Christian science. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
- Christian Register, November 15, 1900.
- Boston Transcript, November 3, 1900.