Franklin "Frank" J. Atwell (1852-1887) was born and died in Schenectady,
New York. He worked as a general and real estate insurance agent at D. A. Atwell &
Son. In the early 1870s he married Sarah Virginia Atwell (b. Harvey), and they settled
in Schenectady, where she worked as an instructor of domestic science and was the
secretary of the Y.W.C.A. He was the son-in-law of Anna M. Harvey and the brother-in-law
of Carrie Harvey Snider, both students of Mary Baker Eddy. In 1886 Anna M. Harvey wrote
to Eddy encouraging her to accept Atwell and his wife into her Primary class in
Christian Science, although the available records do not reflect that they took
it.
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