Israel E. Dwinell (1820-1890) was born in East Calais, Vermont, and died in Oakland, California. He attended the University of Vermont and the Union Theological Seminary in New York, New York. In 1848, he married Rebecca E. Maxwell in Jonesboro, Tennessee. He worked as a Congregationalist minister in Sacramento, California, and was a professor of homiletics for twenty-two years at the Pacific Theological Seminary (now known as the Pacific School of Religion). Dwinell was the father of Elizabeth Hawley, who wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1885.

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