Adelaide Johnson (1859-1955) was born in Plymouth, Illinois, and died in Washington, D.C. She was an artist, sculptor, and suffragist, most famous for the Portrait Monument, housed in the United States Capitol Rotunda. She studied at the St. Louis School of Design in St. Louis, Missouri, and achieved financial independence following an insurance settlement after an accident in an elevator shaft in Chicago. She used the money to travel to Italy to study art and upon her return to the United States, began sculpting busts of notable suffragists, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott. In 1885 Johnson wrote to Mary Baker Eddy, praising Christian Science and asking for information on bulk orders of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. In 1904 she again wrote to Eddy, this time asking to make a marble bust of Eddy. However, because of her busy schedule, Eddy was unable to undertake the project. There is no record of Johnson taking Primary class instruction in Christian Science or joining The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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