Adaline E. Hinkley (1832-1919) was born in Jordan, New York, and died in Lone Tree, Iowa. She married Samuel E. Hinkley in Iowa in 1857. Hinkley traveled to Chicago, Illinois, in 1885 to receive Christian Science treatment through prayer from Mary Hinds Philbrick, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's, and wrote to Eddy asking for further advice. There is no record of Hinkley studying with Mary Baker Eddy or uniting with The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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