Jessie G. N. Clarke (b. Nichols) (1843-1896) was born in Berkley, Massachusetts, and died in Fall River, Massachusetts. In 1872, she married Charles H. Clarke, a shoemaker who served in the Civil War and became a Colonel. Clarke wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1886 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, about taking classes. She took the Normal Class in May 1888 and joined the National Christian Scientist Association that same year. Clarke wrote several times in 1887-1888 to order literature from Calvin A. Frye. Clarke was listed in The Christian Science Journal as a practitioner in Wisconsin in 1890-1895. Clarke joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in April 1893. In the 1896 city directory for Milwaukee, she listed her occupation as Christian Scientist.

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