J. W. (Jonathan Wingate) Winkley (1833-1912) was born in Barrington, New
Hampshire, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a Unitarian minister and graduate
of Harvard Divinity School (1868) who took Primary class with Mary Baker Eddy in April
1885. He joined the Christian Scientist Association in May 1885 and preached several
times at Church of Christ (Scientist) services at the Hawthorne Rooms. In March 1886, he
withdrew from Eddy's Christian Scientist Association and joined the Association of
Luther M. Marston's students. After leaving the Christian Science movement, Winkley
studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Boston and graduated in
1894. The remainder of Winkley's life was spent in Boston, practicing medicine and
editing
Practical Ideal, a New Thought magazine.
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