Samantha A. Brown (b. Deuel) (1842-1893) was born in Canada and died in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1864 she married Meric "C. A. D." S. Brown, a traveling salesman, butcher, and grocer, in Stephenson County, Illinois. He was a private in Company D, 93rd Regiment of the Illinois Infantry of the Union Army in the American Civil War. Sometime prior to 1870, they moved to Vienna, Iowa, and by 1880 had moved to Marshalltown, Iowa. In 1888 they moved to Omaha. In 1886 Brown wrote to Mary Baker Eddy that she had been reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and would like to study Christian Science. Later that year she studied with John P. Filbert in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She took Eddy's Primary Class in 1887 and subsequently became a member of the Christian Scientist Association. She wrote to Eddy multiple times through 1887 and 1888 describing her healing work and ordering literature to distribute. She was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal in 1890.

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