Jessie C. Chamberlin (1867-1965) was born in Aurora, Illinois, and died in Asheville, North Carolina. By 1870 she moved with her family to Waco, Texas. She attended Kent Academy in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1888. In the early-1890s, Chamberlin received a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures from her friend Alice Seward Brown, who was practicing Christian Science in New York. Chamberlin went on to study Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy's student Carrie Harvey Snider, and she joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 30, 1894.
Sometime thereafter she became employed by Eddy's students Joseph and Mary E. Armstrong in Boston, and in the late 1890s she was appointed secretary of the Committee on the Manual at the Christian Science Publishing Society. In 1900, at Eddy's recommendation, Chamberlin became the head of the Christian Science Reading Room in Boston. She was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal from 1895 to 1902. Chamberlin withdrew from church membership in 1911. Thereafter she began working as a professional opera singer, and she moved to Asheville around 1925. While living in Boston, she was a member of the New England Women's Press Association. She was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Jessie C. Chamberlin (1867-1965) was born in Aurora, Illinois, and died in Asheville, North Carolina. By 1870 she moved with her family to Waco, Texas. She attended Kent Academy in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1888. In the early-1890s, Chamberlin received a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures from her friend Alice Seward Brown, who was practicing Christian Science in New York. Chamberlin went on to study Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy's student Carrie Harvey Snider, and she joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 30, 1894.
Sometime thereafter she became employed by Eddy's students Joseph and Mary E. Armstrong in Boston, and in the late 1890s she was appointed secretary of the Committee on the Manual at the Christian Science Publishing Society. In 1900, at Eddy's recommendation, Chamberlin became the head of the Christian Science Reading Room in Boston. She was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal from 1895 to 1902. Chamberlin withdrew from church membership in 1911. Thereafter she began working as a professional opera singer, and she moved to Asheville around 1925. While living in Boston, she was a member of the New England Women's Press Association. She was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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