Joseph F. Fielden (1844-1925) was born in Somersworth, New Hampshire, and died in Belfast, Maine. He served in Company I, 60th Massachusetts Infantry, in the American Civil War. He graduated from Brown University in 1867 and from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1872 and was subsequently ordained in Franklin Falls, New Hampshire, where he served as pastor of the Baptist church for the following nine years. He married Nellie M. Fieldon (b. Brown) in 1873. She died in 1884, and in 1886 he married Ada G. Fieldon (b. Gardner). Fieldon later served pastorates in Winchester, Massachusetts, and Newport, New Hampshire, before settling in Winchendon, Massachusetts, where he served as pastor of First Baptist Church from 1896 until 1912, when he retired. In 1910, Alfred Farlow wrote a letter to Mary Baker Eddy reporting that one of his students had sent Fieldon a one-month subscription to The Christian Science Monitor. The student said that although Fieldon had formerly been opposed to Christian Science, he was so impressed with the Monitor that he began taking it regularly.

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