Maurine R. Campbell (1854-1943) was born in Poland, Ohio, and died in Pasadena, California. By 1860 she had moved with her family to Washington Township, Iowa, and by 1870 to Indianola, Iowa, where she attended Simpson Centenary College and subsequently became a teacher and an elocutionist. After sustaining a severe eye injury, Campbell spent the next six years seeking her health in the mountains of Colorado. In 1886, while traveling through Des Moines, Iowa, on her way to Chicago, Illinois, for an eye operation, she was introduced to Christian Science by her sister Valeria J. Campbell, who was living there. She began reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and was healed through Christian Science treatment by Mary Baker Eddy's student Mary E. Harris, from whom she then took the Primary class.
In 1889 Campbell was called to Boston, Massachusetts, to work for the editorial department of The Christian Science Publishing Society, where she remained until 1893. While there she organized the Busy Bees, a national group of Christian Science children, to raise funds to build and furnish the Mother's Room within the Original Edifice of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, which she joined on December 31, 1892. Her parents, James W. Campbell and Elizabeth Campbell (b. Riddle), joined on September 30, 1893, and Valeria joined on July 1, 1893.
Campbell returned to Iowa by 1894. She resided with her mother and Valeria in Des Moines, and was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal. From 1902 to 1905 Campbell went to China as a companion to Sarah Pike Conger, wife of the American Foreign Minister. The two women ran a Christian Science Sunday School in Peking (now Beijing). From there, Campbell moved to California, first to Palo Alto and then to Pasadena and, after taking the Normal class with Eddy's student Septimus J. Hanna in 1907, worked as a Journal-listed Christian Science practitioner and teacher until her passing.
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Maurine R. Campbell (1854-1943) was born in Poland, Ohio, and died in Pasadena, California. By 1860 she had moved with her family to Washington Township, Iowa, and by 1870 to Indianola, Iowa, where she attended Simpson Centenary College and subsequently became a teacher and an elocutionist. After sustaining a severe eye injury, Campbell spent the next six years seeking her health in the mountains of Colorado. In 1886, while traveling through Des Moines, Iowa, on her way to Chicago, Illinois, for an eye operation, she was introduced to Christian Science by her sister Valeria J. Campbell, who was living there. She began reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and was healed through Christian Science treatment by Mary Baker Eddy's student Mary E. Harris, from whom she then took the Primary class.
In 1889 Campbell was called to Boston, Massachusetts, to work for the editorial department of The Christian Science Publishing Society, where she remained until 1893. While there she organized the Busy Bees, a national group of Christian Science children, to raise funds to build and furnish the Mother's Room within the Original Edifice of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, which she joined on December 31, 1892. Her parents, James W. Campbell and Elizabeth Campbell (b. Riddle), joined on September 30, 1893, and Valeria joined on July 1, 1893.
Campbell returned to Iowa by 1894. She resided with her mother and Valeria in Des Moines, and was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal. From 1902 to 1905 Campbell went to China as a companion to Sarah Pike Conger, wife of the American Foreign Minister. The two women ran a Christian Science Sunday School in Peking (now Beijing). From there, Campbell moved to California, first to Palo Alto and then to Pasadena and, after taking the Normal class with Eddy's student Septimus J. Hanna in 1907, worked as a Journal-listed Christian Science practitioner and teacher until her passing.
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