Margaretta E. Beaton (1834-1919) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Grinnell, Iowa. She married William W. Beaton Jr., a piano tuner, in Polk, Iowa, in 1893. Beaton joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1893. She was listed in the directory of
The Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner in Grinnell from 1909-1913. Although she expressed an interest in studying with Mary Baker Eddy, there is no record of her doing so.
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