Samuel A. Tolman (1835-1919) was born in Camden, Maine, and died in Chicago, Illinois. He moved to Chicago in 1852 and went into the wholesale grocery business, first with Tolman & Walker and then with John A. Tolman & Co. In 1860 he married Elizabeth "Bessie" A. Tolman (b. Roberts) in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a student of a student of Mary Baker Eddy's and wrote to Eddy in 1886 inquiring about the Normal class.

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