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the academic faculty. 1874-77, and 1884-88. He was vice-president of the American association for the advancement of science for section A in 1884. In 1890 he resigned his chair in the Uni- versity of Cincinnati to accept the presidency of Ko.se polytechnic institute, Terre Haute, Ind., which office he held until 1894, when he became professor of engineering and mechanics in the University of Minnesota. He was jDresident of the Society for the promotion of engineering education in 1896. He received the degree of LL.D. from Center college in 1893. He published Analytical Geometry (1874) ; Besearches in Graphi- cal Statics (1878); Thermodynamics (1879); Xetie Constructionen aus der Graphischen Statik (1880) ; 3Iaximum Stresses under Concentrated Loads (1890) ; and many contributions to scientific journals.

EDDY, James, engi-aver, was born at Provi- dence, R.I., May 29, 1806; son of Benjamin and Sarah (James) Eddy, and descended from Wil- liam Eddye, vicar of St. Dunstan's church, Cran- brook, England, whose two sons, John and Samuel, came to Plymouth in 1630. James Eddy was educated m the ^^^^*^ common schools and

y early showed talent

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when a lad of four- teen a copy of a bank- bill, which was so accurate that an ex- perienced shopkeeper thought it genuine until told by the boy that he had made it. He becadie a ^ ^yf^-, y skilful engraver, and f^;2^nafCa^a^ also showed ability

in fine drawings for architectural purposes, in original portraiture and in copying paintings. Early in life he went to Paris to purchase a set of engraver's tools, and while there visited the art gal- leries and conceived an idea that good copies of famous paintings would sell readily at profit- able prices in America. He invested his fxmds in that waj^, and the venture resulted in many subsequent trips abroad for pictures, the engrav- ings finding large sales in the principal cities of the United States. His religious feeling and his desire to further the interests of rational thought, led him to build a chapel on land adjoining his homestead property in Providence, and by his will he left in trust a fund for the support of non -sectarian devotional services therein. This chapel was dedicated by him " To God, to Truth, and to all that ennobles Humanity," and was opened for public and permanent use, Dec. 1,

1889. His writings were edited and published imder the title Thoiujlits on lieliijion and Morality (1891) . He died iu Providence, R.I., May 18, 1888. EDDY, Mary Baker Glover, the discoverer and foxmder of Christian Science, was born in Bow, near Concord, N. H., in 1827 ; daughter of Mark and Abigail (Ambrosp) Baker. Among her ancestors she numbered Gen. John MacXeil of New Hamp- shire, a hero of the battle of Limdj-'s Lane; Sir John MacNeil of Scotland, Britisla ambassador to Persia, and Gen. Henry Klnox, the Revolutionary officer. Mary M. Baker (her maiden name in- cluding the initial "M," afterward discarded) was educated at the Ipswich seminary, her first instructor in the higher branches being Mrs. Sarah J. Bodwell Lane. Her next teacher was Mr. Courser of Sauborton Bridge academy. She sub- sequently came under the training of Professor Sanborn and that of her brother, the Hon. Albert Baker. She became proficient in natu- ral philosophy, chemistry, astronomy, rhetoric, moral science, and the Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Frencli languages. She was baptized as an infant hy the Rev. Natlmniel Bouton, pastor of the First Congregational church. Con- cord, N.H., of which her parents were devout members. Slie was received as a member of tho Congregational Trinitarian church at Tilton, N.H., to which place her parents removed when she was a child, in 1839, and was a member c f that church. 1839-79. On being questioned as to her belief respecting the faith as taught bj- the Congregational Trinitarian denomination, she declined to accept the doctrine of foreordination and predestination as given in the catechism, but was accepted to membership notwithstand- ing this avowed heresy. In 1843 she was married to Col. George W. Glover of Charleston, S.C. About this time she began to study and experi- ment in curing diseases by the homa^opathic system and became a convert to the method, practising it for several years, but did not take a diploma as she could not combine with the science of healing the practice of surgery on ac- count of her aversion to the dissecting room. At that time women were not eligible to admis- sion to medical societies or to the profession as regular practitioners, and this limitation was one of the causes of her demanding the right to the administration of the art of healing by women as well as men. In 1866 she discovered Cliristian Science and formulated her theory as appUed to healing disease and practised it with marked suc- cess when in 1867 she determined to teach The Science of Mind Healing and received her firsfc pupil. The Rev. Theodore C. Piatt, pastor of the Congregational church, Tilton, N.H., under date of Jan. 13, 187.5, after Mrs. Eddy had left the state and when she had confessed to him the enlarge-