Dora M. Knapp (1856-1933) was born in Coxsackie, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 6, 1894, and was a member of the Christian Scientist Association. Knapp was part of a special committee appointed by First Church of Christ, Scientist, Kansas City, to inform Mary Baker Eddy of its unification with the city's Second Church in 1896. She was listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner in Kansas City and Los Angeles from 1896 until her death.

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