Charles Spencer Whitman (1800-1888) was born in Shaftsbury, Vermont, and died in Belvidere, Illinois. He was a farmer and transporter of grain to Chicago. He married Mary Ann Jakeway in 1824, and after her death in 1848, married Diana Adams Hartwell in 1848. His daughter, Eliza Brown, expressed interest in Christian Science in 1884. Another daughter, Mary, who became a member of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1893, wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1885, regarding her aging father.

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