Nellie B. Cafferty (1861-1931) was born in Binghamton, New York, and died
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She married Doane Cafferty, a bookkeeper, in Binghamton
in 1884. She studied with Ellen E. Cross, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's, and joined The
First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 7, 1899.
Although her mother, Delinda E. Brownell, was a student of Eddy's, there is no record of
Cafferty studying with Eddy. Cafferty was one of the Directors of First Church of
Christ, Scientist, Binghamton. She was listed in the directory of
The
Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner in Philadelphia
from 1914 until her death.
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