Charles M. Barrows (1838-1918) was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, and died in Manhattan, New York. He worked as a teacher, author, and editor. He married Adelaide V. Marden in Allston, Massachusetts, in 1864. Barrows was the author of Bread-Pills: A Study of Mind Cure; What It Is and How to Do It (1885), Facts and Fictions of Mental Healing (1887), as well as the pamphlet Christian Science vs. Mesmerism. In 1885, in response to attacks by Rev. A. J. Gordon, Barrows published a defense of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science called Christian Science is not Pantheism. Even though Barrows was not a Christian Scientist, the pamphlet was advertised in The Christian Science Journal and distributed to Christian Scientists in New England and the Midwest. He moved to New York in 1907 and was an Associate of the American Society for Psychical Research. Barrows spent the latter years of his life studying to cure deafness by suggestion and contributing articles to The Association Review, the journal for the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf.

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