Jessie C. H. Gorham (1849-1930) was born in Monroe County, New York, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. She spent her early life in Rochester, New York, living there with her family by 1855. By 1875 she was working in a seed store, and in the 1880s she worked variously as a bookkeeper, correspondent, and clerk. Gorham met Sarah A. Pine, a student of Mary Baker Eddy, while they were boarding in the same place in Rochester in the mid-1880s, and she subsequently studied Christian Science with Pine. In October 1889 Gorham moved to Boston and began working as associate editor at the Christian Science Publishing Society, a position she held through most of the 1890s. At the same time, she began aiding Eddy with copyediting aspects of revising Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and in 1896 she served as the assistant editor of Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896. Eddy outspokenly praised Gorham's contributions in these capacities and was also personally fond of her, often addressing her as "My Darling Lassie." Gorham joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston on July 6, 1895, and was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal from 1897 until her passing.

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