Alfred P. Hanchett (1852-1935) was born in Aurora, Illinois, and died in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was a homeopathic physician who began practicing in Council Bluffs in 1881. Hanchett graduated from Chicago Homeopathic Medical College (1878) and shortly afterwards began practicing in Marengo, Illinois, before moving to Iowa. In 1885 he wrote to Mary Baker Eddy asking for information on studying at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College. There is no record of him studying at the College.

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