Noah "Node" W. Halley (1843-1914) was born in Tipton County, Indiana, and died in Washington, District of Columbia. He was a Civil War veteran, serving as a private and then a corporal in Company G of the 140th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. After the war he worked as a dry goods merchant in Liberty, Indiana, then as a clerk in Tipton, Indiana. In 1869 he married Sciota "Otie" J. Halley (b. Anderson) in Marion, Indiana, and they moved to Washington sometime in the 1870s. From 1878 to 1884 Halley worked as a doorkeeper for the United States House of Representatives, and thereafter he worked in the Bureau of Pensions, initially as a special examiner and ultimately as chief of the record division. In 1886 Halley wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to express his interest in Christian Science and ask for information about any of her students in his area with whom he might connect.

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