Jennie B. Phillips (b. Martha J. Burris) (1855-1940) was born in Washington, Iowa, and died in Los Angeles, California. She married Jephtha H. Phillips in Johnson, Kansas, in 1879. He was a Congregational pastor, first at the First Congregational Church of Leadville, Colorado, and then, from 1887, at the East Los Angeles Congregational Church in California before becoming an attorney. Phillips wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1886 that she had been healed by Eddy's student, Jane M. Rand. Although she expressed an interest in studying with Eddy, there is no record of her doing so. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in July 1895. Phillips was listed as a practitioner in Los Angeles in The Christian Science Journal from 1896 to 1932.

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