Byron M. Smith (c.1833-1888) was born in Whitney Point, New York, and died in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was a realtor and Civil War veteran, serving in Company F, 4th Vermont Volunteer Infantry. In early 1886 after suffering many years of ill health, he wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to purchase a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and other Christian Science literature.

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