Abigail Dyer Thompson (1874-1957) was born and died in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She first met Mary Baker Eddy in 1886, at about age 12, during the time her mother, Emma A. Thompson, was taking Eddy's Primary class at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, and she recounted being healed by Eddy on two separate occasions in 1887. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 6, 1895, and was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal from 1897 until her passing. Thompson was a teacher of Christian Science and became a member of the General Association of Teachers in 1903. She was a member of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Minneapolis, which she and her mother helped found at Eddy's request in 1897, and together she and her mother also took Eddy's Normal course in November 1898. They were both invited to visit Eddy at her various homes many times over many years. Thompson very frequently contributed articles to both The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel. In 1942 she gave an address consisting of her reminiscences of Eddy at the annual meeting of The Mother Church.

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