Thomas Van Ness (1859-1931) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a Unitarian minister who was ordained in 1884, a year after graduating from Harvard Divinity School. After graduation, Van Ness ministered in San Francisco, Denver, Boston, and Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1886, while living in Denver, he became interested in Christian Science, ordering copies of Science of Health with Key to the Scriptures and giving talks on Christian Science.

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