Franklin "Frank" J. Atwell (1852-1887) was born and died in Schenectady, New York. He worked as a general and real estate insurance agent at D. A. Atwell & Son. In the early 1870s he married Sarah Virginia Atwell (b. Harvey) and they settled in Schenectady where she worked as an instructor of domestic science and was the secretary of the Y.W.C.A. He was the son-in-law of Anna M. Harvey and the brother-in-law of Carrie Harvey Snider, both students of Mary Baker Eddy. In 1886 Anna M. Harvey wrote to Eddy encouraging her to accept Atwell and his wife into her Primary class in Christian Science, although the available records do not reflect that they took it.

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