Martha J. Hinds
Martha J. Hinds (1825-1925) was born in Hallowell, Maine, and died in
Port Townsend, Washington. She married Charles P. Hunter, a provisions dealer, in
Hallowell in 1849. Mary Baker Eddy boarded at their home in Portland, Maine, in October
1862 when she was a patient of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby's. Hunter, also a patient of
Quimby's, passed away that month. Martha later married John F. Hinds, a sea captain, in
Monona, Iowa, in 1891. Hinds and her second husband later moved west to Washington and,
after becoming interested in Christian Science in 1890, she joined The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 1, 1898. She was listed in the
directory of The Christian Science Journal as a Christian
Science practitioner in Port Townsend from 1913-1923.
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Martha J. Hinds
Martha J. Hinds (1825-1925) was born in Hallowell, Maine, and died in
Port Townsend, Washington. She married Charles P. Hunter, a provisions dealer, in
Hallowell in 1849. Mary Baker Eddy boarded at their home in Portland, Maine, in October
1862 when she was a patient of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby's. Hunter, also a patient of
Quimby's, passed away that month. Martha later married John F. Hinds, a sea captain, in
Monona, Iowa, in 1891. Hinds and her second husband later moved west to Washington and,
after becoming interested in Christian Science in 1890, she joined The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 1, 1898. She was listed in the
directory of The Christian Science Journal as a Christian
Science practitioner in Port Townsend from 1913-1923.
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