Clara Shepard
Clara Shepard (1852-1926) was born in New Hampshire and died in Sioux
City, Iowa. Shepard studied with Julia Anderson Root before she wrote to Mary Baker Eddy
in 1886. She later studied with Mary M. W. Adams and Elizabeth Webster of Chicago in
1899. Shepard joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in
December 1892. She organized a branch church in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1897 and served as
Reader there. She incorporated the Sioux City Christian Science Institute in 1900, and
advertised her services as a teacher there in The Christian Science
Journal from 1901 to 1904. Shepard was listed as a member in the General
Association of Teachers in October 1904, and as a practitioner in the Journal from 1890 to 1922. She had two articles printed in the Journal, "Sickness and its Cure" in April 1904, and a testimony of
healing in November 1912.
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Clara Shepard
Clara Shepard (1852-1926) was born in New Hampshire and died in Sioux
City, Iowa. Shepard studied with Julia Anderson Root before she wrote to Mary Baker Eddy
in 1886. She later studied with Mary M. W. Adams and Elizabeth Webster of Chicago in
1899. Shepard joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in
December 1892. She organized a branch church in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1897 and served as
Reader there. She incorporated the Sioux City Christian Science Institute in 1900, and
advertised her services as a teacher there in The Christian Science
Journal from 1901 to 1904. Shepard was listed as a member in the General
Association of Teachers in October 1904, and as a practitioner in the Journal from 1890 to 1922. She had two articles printed in the Journal, "Sickness and its Cure" in April 1904, and a testimony of
healing in November 1912.
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