Lucy K. Bissell (b. Hoyt) (1827-1906) was born in Cayuga, New York, and died in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1855 she married Harvey Bissell in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Over the course of his career he was a store clerk, a furniture dealer, and a crockery merchant. He was also an inventor, holding a patent on improvements to the thill couplings of wagon axles. They moved to Grand Rapids in 1871. Bissell was Mary Baker Eddy's student, completing her Primary class in January 1887 and her Normal class in February 1887. She then joined the Christian Scientist Association, the National Christian Scientist Association, and the General Association of Teachers. Bissell joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 6, 1895, and was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal from 1891 to 1906.

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