Alice Seward Brown (1844-1924) was born in Schenectady, New York, and died in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was introduced to Christian Science in 1887 when a friend loaned her a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Upon reading it, she was healed of an illness of two years' standing, and thereafter, in 1888, she took a class in Christian Science from Mary Baker Eddy's student Eliza A. Clark in New York. Brown heard Eddy lecture in New York City in 1889, and that same year she joined the Church of Christ (Scientist) in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1892 she was invited to live in Eddy's house located at 385 Commonwealth Avenue, in Boston, along with Eddy's student Carrie Harvey Snider, from whom she took another class in Christian Science. Brown joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 31, 1892, and was elected a First Member of the church in 1901.
In 1893 she joined the household of Eddy's students Joseph and Mary E. Armstrong in Roslindale, Massachusetts, living there for the following two and a half years. In September 1893 she attended the Christian Science Congress at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, Illinois. Brown was a member of Eddy's last Normal class in November 1898. In 1903 she was appointed librarian of the Christian Science Reading Room in Boston, a position she held until 1909. She also served as the custodian of the Mother's Room within the Original Edifice of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. Brown was listed as a practitioner, and later a teacher, in The Christian Science Journal from 1895 until her passing. She was also a member of the Christian Science Dispensary Association and the General Association of Teachers.
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Alice Seward Brown (1844-1924) was born in Schenectady, New York, and died in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was introduced to Christian Science in 1887 when a friend loaned her a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Upon reading it, she was healed of an illness of two years' standing, and thereafter, in 1888, she took a class in Christian Science from Mary Baker Eddy's student Eliza A. Clark in New York. Brown heard Eddy lecture in New York City in 1889, and that same year she joined the Church of Christ (Scientist) in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1892 she was invited to live in Eddy's house located at 385 Commonwealth Avenue, in Boston, along with Eddy's student Carrie Harvey Snider, from whom she took another class in Christian Science. Brown joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 31, 1892, and was elected a First Member of the church in 1901.
In 1893 she joined the household of Eddy's students Joseph and Mary E. Armstrong in Roslindale, Massachusetts, living there for the following two and a half years. In September 1893 she attended the Christian Science Congress at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, Illinois. Brown was a member of Eddy's last Normal class in November 1898. In 1903 she was appointed librarian of the Christian Science Reading Room in Boston, a position she held until 1909. She also served as the custodian of the Mother's Room within the Original Edifice of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. Brown was listed as a practitioner, and later a teacher, in The Christian Science Journal from 1895 until her passing. She was also a member of the Christian Science Dispensary Association and the General Association of Teachers.
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