Ida M. Marr (b. Brown) (1859-1934) was born and died in Clinton, Maine. In 1882 she married Jacob D. Marr, a farmer and pulp mill laborer. She wrote a letter to Mary Baker Eddy in 1886 to order a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. In 1901, in a tragedy reported upon in newspapers nationwide, Marr's husband murdered their three children and then took his own life. Marr survived, and for three decades afterward she supported herself by working as a housekeeper for other families in Clinton.

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