Richard W. Husted
Richard W. Husted (1835-1927) was born in Hallowell, Maine, and died in
New York, New York. By 1855 he was living in Alford, Massachusetts, and in 1860 he
married Anna E. Husted (b. McLean). Husted served as a private in Company E, 12th New
York Infantry, in the American Civil War. After the war he lived in Warwick, Rhode
Island, and Bridgeport, Connecticut, before settling in the greater Boston,
Massachusetts, area. Husted was the secretary of the chorus of the American Peace
Jubilee and was one of the three original founders of the New England Conservatory of
Music. He served as treasurer of Boston University from 1875 until 1911. He was
acquainted with Mary Baker Eddy's student James A. Neal (1866-1930), who reported to
Eddy in 1897 that Husted was supportive of Christian Science and endorsed it among his
colleagues. By 1910 he was living in Brookline, Massachusetts, and by 1920 in
Washington, D.C.
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Richard W. Husted
Richard W. Husted (1835-1927) was born in Hallowell, Maine, and died in
New York, New York. By 1855 he was living in Alford, Massachusetts, and in 1860 he
married Anna E. Husted (b. McLean). Husted served as a private in Company E, 12th New
York Infantry, in the American Civil War. After the war he lived in Warwick, Rhode
Island, and Bridgeport, Connecticut, before settling in the greater Boston,
Massachusetts, area. Husted was the secretary of the chorus of the American Peace
Jubilee and was one of the three original founders of the New England Conservatory of
Music. He served as treasurer of Boston University from 1875 until 1911. He was
acquainted with Mary Baker Eddy's student James A. Neal (1866-1930), who reported to
Eddy in 1897 that Husted was supportive of Christian Science and endorsed it among his
colleagues. By 1910 he was living in Brookline, Massachusetts, and by 1920 in
Washington, D.C.
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