Emma A. Thompson (1842-1913) was born in North Yarmouth, Maine, and died in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was a student of Mary Baker Eddy's, completing the Primary (1886) and Obstetrics (1887) classes. She was a student, along with her daughter, Abigail D. Thompson, in Mary Baker Eddy's final Normal class (1898). She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in July 1895. She and her daughter helped organize Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Minneapolis, in 1897 and continued nurturing the expanding community of followers in Minneapolis through her healing ministry there. She was listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner from 1887 until her passing.

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