Arabella Perry (b. Green) (c. 1852-1926) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Washington, D.C. She married Samuel T. Perry, a ship carpenter and electrician, in Brooklyn in 1870, and by 1880 they had moved to Boston, Massachusetts. They had a son, Walter L. G. Perry, whose healing through Christian Science treatment in the mid-1880s inspired Perry to begin the study of Christian Science herself. She joined the Sabbath School held by the Church of Christ (Scientist) and then took a class from Josephine Curtis Woodbury, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's. She joined the Church of Christ (Scientist) on March 21, 1886, and was also a member of the National Christian Scientist Association and the Christian Science Dispensary Association. She wrote several contributions to The Christian Science Journal in the late 1880s and was listed as a practitioner in the Journal from 1893 to 1896. Her son Walter was a student in the Sunday School held in Chickering Hall in the 1880s and recalled meeting with Eddy several times when she visited the students there. Perry's husband died in 1912, and in 1915 she moved to Washington, D.C. to live with Walter, who had become a draftsman for the United States government, and she became a custom shirt maker.

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