Frederick "Fred" W. Bunnell (1863-1899) was born in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, and died in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a farmer. By 1880 he was living in Blue Springs, Nebraska, and in 1886 he married Nina A. Bunnell (b. Haynes) in Gage County, Nebraska. They resided in Kearney, Nebraska. In the mid-1880s Fred and Nina studied Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy's students Janet T. Colman and Jennie B. Fenn. In a case reported in The Christian Science Journal of October 1887, Fred was accused of practicing medicine and obstetrics contrary to Nebraska statutory law but was acquitted of all charges by a jury. In February 1889 Fred and Nina both took Eddy's Primary class and subsequently joined the Christian Scientist Association. Fred was also a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist, in Kearney. Nina died later in 1889, and in 1894 Fred moved to St. Louis and married Sarah J. "Jennie" Bunnell (b. Pierson) who was also a Christian Scientist. She studied with Ezra M. Buswell, one of Eddy's students, and was a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist, in St. Louis. Fred joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 6, 1895, and Jennie joined on July 3, 1897. He was listed as a practitioner and teacher in the Journal intermittently between 1891 and 1899, and she was listed as a practitioner from 1899 to 1905.

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