Warren Felt Evans (1817-1889) was born in Rockingham, Vermont, and died in Salisbury, Massachusetts. After leaving Dartmouth College in the middle of his junior year, Evans was ordained as a Methodist minister in about 1840. He left the denomination in about 1864 to join the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian). It was in about 1863-1864 that he had two visits with Phineas P. Quimby, likely discussing their methods for healing disease. Not long after, Evans opened a mental medicine office in Claremont, New Hampshire, followed by an office in Boston. There he and his wife practiced and informally taught the principles of mental healing for over 20 years. Evans was a prolific writer on mental healing, later called New Thought. While Mary Baker Eddy was aware of Evans's work, there is no record of direct contact between the two.

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