John W. Keyes (1845-1916) was born in Cambridge, Vermont, and died in Statesville Township, North Carolina. As a child he moved with his family to New Hampshire, where he lived in Alstead, Walpole, and Rockingham. From 1862 to 1865 Keyes served in Company F, 4th Vermont Infantry, in the American Civil War. He studied medicine at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the early 1870s and subsequently became a dentist in Bellows Falls, Vermont. There he met Isabella Keyes Benson (b. Benedict), and they married in Sandy Hill, New York, in 1882.
In 1885 they moved to Kearney, Nebraska, where they learned of, and experienced healing through, Christian Science treatment. Both studied Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy's student James A. Neal, and afterwards they became Christian Science practitioners and established First Church of Christ, Scientist, Leavenworth, Kansas. Both Keyeses took a class in Christian Science from Eddy's adopted son, Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy, in 1892 and joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 31, 1892. In 1896 they moved to Boston. Around 1899 they were called to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, to help organize a group of Christian Scientists there, and around 1903 they moved to Washington, D.C., where they took another class in Christian Science from Elizabeth C. Wickersham. Around 1915 they moved to Greensboro, North Carolina. Keyes continued to practice dentistry for many years, listing himself as a Christian Science dentist in local newspapers, and was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal from 1892 until his passing.
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John W. Keyes (1845-1916) was born in Cambridge, Vermont, and died in Statesville Township, North Carolina. As a child he moved with his family to New Hampshire, where he lived in Alstead, Walpole, and Rockingham. From 1862 to 1865 Keyes served in Company F, 4th Vermont Infantry, in the American Civil War. He studied medicine at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the early 1870s and subsequently became a dentist in Bellows Falls, Vermont. There he met Isabella Keyes Benson (b. Benedict), and they married in Sandy Hill, New York, in 1882.
In 1885 they moved to Kearney, Nebraska, where they learned of, and experienced healing through, Christian Science treatment. Both studied Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy's student James A. Neal, and afterwards they became Christian Science practitioners and established First Church of Christ, Scientist, Leavenworth, Kansas. Both Keyeses took a class in Christian Science from Eddy's adopted son, Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy, in 1892 and joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 31, 1892. In 1896 they moved to Boston. Around 1899 they were called to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, to help organize a group of Christian Scientists there, and around 1903 they moved to Washington, D.C., where they took another class in Christian Science from Elizabeth C. Wickersham. Around 1915 they moved to Greensboro, North Carolina. Keyes continued to practice dentistry for many years, listing himself as a Christian Science dentist in local newspapers, and was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal from 1892 until his passing.
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