Bertha Miranda Hoyt (1870-1920) was born in Derby, Connecticut, and died in Springfield, Massachusetts. She originally wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1885 when she was a teenager looking for help with her ailments. Years later in November 1910, she joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, and from 1918 until her passing, she served as a Christian Science practitioner in Springfield and advertised in the directory of The Christian Science Journal.

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