Lewis C. Strang (1869-1935) was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston University in 1892 and worked as a reporter, as well as assistant city editor and assistant dramatic critic, for the Boston Journal. During this time he wrote several books, including Famous Actresses of the Day in America (1899) and Prima Donnas and Soubrettes of Light Opera and Musical Comedy in America (1900). He married Martha L. Strang (b. Locke) in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1895. Strang joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 10, 1902. The family moved to Washington D.C. in 1904 and Strang worked at the Washington Times. Soon after, he gave up his work in newspapers to devote himself full time to healing and writing about Christian Science. He was listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner and teacher in Boston from 1905 to 1924. Strang worked as an associate secretary to Mary Baker Eddy from January 1906 to April 1907 at her Pleasant View home in Concord, New Hampshire. After a year of doing so, Eddy gave him a degree of C.S.B. along with a certificate permitting him to teach. In 1907, he was a defendant in the "Next Friends" lawsuit. He resigned from teaching in 1925.

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