James Walter Fertig (1859-1922) was born in Elizabeth, Indiana, and died in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1902, he married Annie M. Fertig (b. Mead) in Chicago, Illinois. Fertig was a schoolteacher at the Winchester Normal School in Ohio before becoming vice-president of Salina Normal University in Salina, Kansas. He later worked for the Normal Register in Salina before becoming head of the education department of the Middle Tennessee State Normal School. He wrote from Salina in 1886 to request a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures to review in a newspaper.

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