Edwin Ross Champlin (1854-1928) was born in Westerly, Rhode Island, and died in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was an author, poet, journalist, and editor. He married Georgia "Georgie" A. Champlin (b. Butler) in Westerly in 1877. By 1900 they had moved to Fall River, Massachusetts, and then to Worcester in about 1924. Throughout Champlin's career he was a contributor to several magazines, journals, and newspapers, including Literary World, Youth's Companion, Lippincott's, Christian Union, Portland Transcript, Norwich Bulletin, Danbury News, New York Tribune, Attleboro Chronicle, Providence Journal, Gloucester Daily Times, Fall River News, and Fall River Herald. He was the author of two books, Heart's Own: Verses and On the White-Birch Road. In June 1886 Champlin wrote to Mary Baker Eddy, requesting that she fill out a questionnaire so as to be included in a work he was compiling entitled Handbook of Living American Writers, which was to include approximately fifteen hundred biographical entries. There is no evidence either of Eddy's doing so or of Champlin's publication of such a book. Based on the records available, we have found no further information concerning his involvement with Christian Science.

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