Adaline B. Wheeler (b. Young) (1834-1919) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Lincolnville, Maine. In 1854 she married William F. Wheeler in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and they subsequently moved to Grafton, Massachusetts. William was a farmer and operated a private farm school for boys in Grafton until 1862 when he began serving as a Captain in Company E of the 51st Massachusetts Infantry of the Union Army in the American Civil War. By 1880 the Wheelers had moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Adaline and William subsequently divorced, and in 1887 Adaline went to live in Boston with her daughter, Ada M. Wheeler, whose healing through Christian Science treatment that year inspired both of them to read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and begin studying Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy hired Adaline as a private teacher for her grandchildren Edward G. Glover, Mary B. Glover, and Evelyn Glover Schell, the eldest three children of her son, George Washington Glover and his wife, Ellen H. Glover, while the family visited Boston for about six months in late 1888 and early 1889. Adaline and Ada were both listed as practitioners in The Christian Science Journal in 1889 and 1890, and they joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, on November 7, 1899. Adaline and Ada moved to Rockport, Maine, by 1900 and then around 1908 to Lincolnville, where Adaline remained for the rest of her life.

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