Rufus A. Morrison (1834-1903) was born in Windham, New Hampshire, and died in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Amherst College in 1859 and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1862. After teaching classics at Mount Joy Academy in Pennsylvania, he worked as an assistant examiner and solicitor of patents for the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C., until his death. He wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1885 to order a replacement copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

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