Minerva C. Corlett (b. Franklin) (1852-1924) was born in Burlington, Iowa, and died in New York, New York. She married William W. Corlett in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1873 and moved with him to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he practiced law and was involved in politics, including serving as the Wyoming Territory delegate to the United States Congress. He died in 1890, and in 1892 Corlett married John N. Tisdale in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was involved in the cattle and mining industries, and by the late 1890s they had moved to Snettisham, Alaska, where he was the president and manager of the Alaska-Snettisham Gold Mining Company and was also the Snettisham postmaster. After his death in 1905, Corlett moved to New York where she became an apartment manager. In 1886 both Corlett and her first husband studied Christian Science with Havilah A. Heathwood, who had received instruction in Christian Science from Mary Baker Eddy's students Huldah P. Read and Arthur T. Buswell. Heathwood indicated that the Corletts were interested in studying with Eddy themselves but the records do not reflect that they did so.

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