Jane C. Utley (b. Combs) (1834-1914) was born in Boonville, New York, and died in Humboldt, Iowa. In 1858 she married Joseph Utley, a farmer, and thereafter they moved to Turin, Lewis County, New York. After her husband died in 1881, Utley moved with her two young sons to Humboldt, where her brother and his family had settled, and remained there for the rest of her life. In 1886 she wrote to Mary Baker Eddy several times to order copies of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and other Christian Science literature. She studied Christian Science with Elizabeth Webster, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's. Utley joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 29, 1894. She helped found the Christian Science church in Humboldt and was a practitioner listed in The Christian Science Journal from 1899 until 1905.

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