Asa T.N. Macdonald (1840-1876) was a resident of Chelsea, Massachusetts,
and first cousin of Elizabeth M. Newhall (a student of Mary Baker Eddy's) and the Hon.
Asa Tarbell Newhall, a well-known Massachusetts politician. Macdonald was educated at
the West Newton English and Classical School in West Newton, Massachusetts, and worked
as a bookkeeper in Boston, Massachusetts. Macdonald studied with Eddy in 1875.
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