James A. Thomas (c. 1856-1927) was born in Linesville, Pennsylvania, and died in Edmore, Michigan. He was a photographer and a general store merchant. He married Minnie B. Thomas (b. Dunham), a teacher, in Lakeview, Michigan, in 1891. She died in 1913, and he married Julia R. Thomas (b. Gibbs) in West Millbrook, Michigan, in 1916. They divorced in 1924. In 1886 Thomas wrote to Mary Baker Eddy stating that he had been studying Christian Science and inquiring about buying Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures in bulk quantities for resale.

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