Ida E. Shute (b. Mathews) (1859-1947) was born in Ossipee, New Hampshire, and died in Concord, New Hampshire. By 1870, she was living in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where in 1882 she married Edward P. Shute, a schoolmaster. In 1886, Shute wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to ask for a recommendation for a healer and to order literature. Shute and her husband joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1893 and Shute studied with Susie M. Lang. She is listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal between 1896 and 1904. After Edward's death in 1939, Shute retired to the Christian Science Pleasant View Home in Concord and died there in 1947.

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