Hugh McDonald (c.1837-1908) was born in Canada and died in Brookline, Massachusetts. He spent most of his life working as a lumber dealer in Wisconsin. He was the husband and also a student of Emma A. McDonald, who was a student of Mary Baker Eddy's. He joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in July 1893. From 1906 until 1908, he was listed as a Christian Science practitioner in the directory of The Christian Science Journal. In 1899, Eddy asked him to come to her home, Pleasant View, and manage the farm on her estate. He respectfully declined because he was unable to leave his struggling lumber business in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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