Altie E. Hallett (b. Hadley) (1858-1951) was born in Rochester, Minnesota, and died in Los Angeles, California. Her family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1865. She was the daughter of Ozro A. Hadley, who was elected first to the Arkansas state senate, then the United States senate, and ultimately served as the governor of Arkansas from 1871 to 1873. In 1878, Altie married William H. Hallett, chief clerk of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. They lived in St. Louis, Missouri, in the mid-1880s, where William was a timber agent for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. The Halletts then moved to Watrous, New Mexico, where Ozro Hadley had bought a cattle ranch, and finally, by 1900, to Los Angeles where they remained for the rest of their lives. In 1886, Altie Hallett wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to order a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

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