John Henry Keene (1836-1914) was born and died in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard Law School with a LL.B. Afterwards he worked in a law firm with his brother, Robert G. Keene, in Baltimore. He married Fanny H. Keene (b. Cook) in New York, New York, in 1882; she passed away four months later. Keene retired from active law practice to pursue writing, including the book Justice and Jurisprudence (1889) and campaign literature for the Democratic Party.
Although he was not a Christian Scientist, Keene was angered by the attacks on the religion in the press and defended Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science in a number of newspaper articles. In 1902 he reprinted his articles in a pamphlet titled Christian Science and Its Enemies. The publication included sharp criticism of the medical profession and the clergy. Eddy initially praised Keene, but after a more thorough reading of his pamphlet realized his response was not the proper way to deal with the critics and asked him to stop publication of his booklet. At one point it appeared that Keene could revise the pamphlet, toning down the language, and republish it, but in the end the work was withdrawn. Keene continued to correspond with Eddy until her death in 1910.
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John Henry Keene (1836-1914) was born and died in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard Law School with a LL.B. Afterwards he worked in a law firm with his brother, Robert G. Keene, in Baltimore. He married Fanny H. Keene (b. Cook) in New York, New York, in 1882; she passed away four months later. Keene retired from active law practice to pursue writing, including the book Justice and Jurisprudence (1889) and campaign literature for the Democratic Party.
Although he was not a Christian Scientist, Keene was angered by the attacks on the religion in the press and defended Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science in a number of newspaper articles. In 1902 he reprinted his articles in a pamphlet titled Christian Science and Its Enemies. The publication included sharp criticism of the medical profession and the clergy. Eddy initially praised Keene, but after a more thorough reading of his pamphlet realized his response was not the proper way to deal with the critics and asked him to stop publication of his booklet. At one point it appeared that Keene could revise the pamphlet, toning down the language, and republish it, but in the end the work was withdrawn. Keene continued to correspond with Eddy until her death in 1910.
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