James Walter Fertig (1859-1922) was born in Elizabeth, Indiana, and died
in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1902, he married Annie M. Fertig (b. Mead) in Chicago,
Illinois. Fertig was a schoolteacher at the Winchester Normal School in Ohio before
becoming vice-president of Salina Normal University in Salina, Kansas. He later worked
for the Normal Register in Salina before becoming head of the education department of
the Middle Tennessee State Normal School. He wrote from Salina in 1886 to request a copy
of
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures to review in a
newspaper.
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