Religious Leader. Founder of Christian Science. Born Mary Morse Baker in Bow, New Hampshire, the was the youngest of Mark and Abigail Baker's six children. A sickly child, her formal education was often interrupted by illness, so she read and studied at home with the guidance of an older brother. She later attended Holmes Academy at Plymouth and Sanbornton Academy. Her parents were deeply devout Congregationalists, but she rebelled against the doctrine of predestination at an early age. She married for the first time in December of 1843, to George Washington Glover, who died the following June. A pregnant widow, she returned to her family home. Her son was born the following September, and she was coerced by her parents to give him up to the Russell Cheney family who relocated to Minnesota 1856, when the boy was told his mother was dead, and Eddy did not see her son again until he was 35 years old. She married for a second time in 1853, but after Daniel Patterson abandoned her in 1866, she divorced him in 1873 on grounds of desertion. Chronic illness dogged her, and left her desperate for relief. She sought alternates to harsh medical treatments of the day, and in 1866, a fall on an icy sidewalk left her critically injured and bedridden. Immobilized, she asked for her Bible. While reading an account of Jesus' healings, she found herself feeling well again, and she referred to this as the moment she discovered Christian Science. It was not enough for her that she was physically healed, she wanted to understand how, and set about studying her Bible. Years of intensive scriptural study, healing work, and teaching followed, culminating in the publication of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" in 1875. She taught her discoveries to others, and in 1877, she married one of her students, Asa Gilbert Eddy. In 1879, she secured a charter for the Church of Christ, Scientist, which was established "...to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." In 1881 she also obtained a charter for the Massachusetts Metaphysical College as a degree-granting institution. In 1883, the "Journal of Christian Science" was first published, and it still exists in the 21st century as "The Christian Science Journal." Her book "Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896" was considered important enough, that in 1897 she requested her students spend the next year thoroughly reading it, and in 1888, a Christian Science Reading Room was opened in Boston. In 1894, Christian Scientists moved into their own building, The Mother Church, in Boston. In 1895, she published a church manual, establishing guidelines that are followed to this day, and she founded The Christian Science Publishing Society. The new denomination allowed women a high position in the church in a time when women could not even vote. She was often attacked for her teachings, and suffered the full fury of Joseph Pulitzer's yellow journalism campaign. In 1898, in a response to prejudicial endemic yellow journalism, she founded "The Christian Science Monitor," a newspaper written "...to injure no man, but to bless all mankind." In her final decades, she focused much of her attention on expanding the church teachings and continually revised her publications. The Church of Christ, Scientist has branches in 80 countries worldwide. "Science and Health," has been translated into 17 languages and in 1992 was voted by the Women's National Book Association as the 19th of 75 books by women which have changed the world. In 1995, Mary Baker Eddy was inducted in the National Women's Hall of Fame, and in 2002, The Mary Baker Eddy Library was established in Boston.