Joanna M. Bryan (1856-1939) was born in Canada and died in Boston, Massachusetts. Her family moved to the United States in 1866. She worked as a seamstress and was a student of Josephine Curtis Woodbury's, who was a student of Mary Baker Eddy's. Bryan joined the church in the spring of 1886, when Joseph A. Adams preached several times at the Church of Christ (Scientist) in Boston. Bryan found Adams' teachings to be in conflict with what she believed to be Christian Science, and she wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1886 wishing to be removed from church membership. Based on the records available, we have found no further information concerning her involvement with Christian Science.

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