Frances J. Babcock (c.1838-1924) was born in New York and died in Oakland, California. She was a student of Miranda R. Rice's, studying with her in California in the winter of 1884. Rice was a former student of Mary Baker Eddy's, who left the Christian Science Movement during the Lynn Rebellion of 1881. Babcock would later join the New Thought movement, affiliating herself with the Unity Church and The Home of Truth. There is no record of Babcock studying with Eddy or uniting with the Church of Christ (Scientist).

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