Rebecca M. White (1878-1959) was born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and died in an unknown location. Her parents were Anna B. White (b. Bradley) and her first husband, Barclay White Jr. He died in 1878 and Anna moved in with her parents in Pennsylvania, where she gave birth to a daughter and named her Rebecca Merritt White after Barclay's mother, Rebecca Merritt White (b. Lamb). In 1889, Anna married her second husband, Alfred E. Baker, in New Jersey. He was a homeopathic physician, but he had given up that role and bought a farm in East Bradford, Chester County, Philadelphia. The family lived on the farm in East Bradford in the early 1890s. In 1896, Anna and Alfred became involved in Christian Science and studied first with Flavia Stickney Knapp and then in 1898, with Mary Baker Eddy. In about 1896, White left home and went to Wellesley College for Women in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She graduated in 1900 and moved back in with her parents who were in Boston, then Concord, New Hampshire, where they were working closely with Eddy. Eddy was very fond of White, calling her "Dolly", as did her parents in their many letters to Eddy. At one point, Eddy gifted her a miniature oil lamp. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston in June 1901. She was also a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Concord, New Hampshire. Rebecca continued to live with Anna and Alfred, moving with them first to Brookline, Massachusetts, then Pennsylvania by 1910, and then to Newton by 1920. In 1924, White was one of the founding members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she had studied.

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