George A. Quimby (1841-1915) was born and died in Belfast, Maine. He was the son of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby and worked as his father's assistant when Mary Baker Eddy became a patient of his father's in 1862. After his father's death, George A. Quimby worked as an insurance agent and a journalist, contributing regularly to The Republican Journal in Belfast, and was a member of the Maine Press Association. In 1888, he authored a biographical sketch of his father which was published in The New England Magazine. Quimby was protective of his father's legacy and maintained ownership of his father's manuscripts, refusing to publish them. He did, however, allow journalists who interviewed him to view them and publish extracts. George A. Quimby was dismissive of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science; however, he never sought to credit his father with the discovery of Christian Science.

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