Charles Leighton (1855-1939) was born in Farmington, New Hampshire, and
died in Lynn, Massachusetts. He married Grace E. Paul in 1887 and became a member of the
Mount Carmel Freemason Lodge of Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1890. Leighton was a member of
the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; he was a descendant of
David Watson, a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Leighton worked as a lawyer and owned
a practice with Ira B. Keith, who was retained as a lawyer by Mary Baker Eddy during the
late 1870s until the middle of the 1880s and provided legal advice on lawsuits and
managing her property at 8 Broad Street, Lynn.
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