Frederic A. (Frederic Alphonso) Noble (1832-1918) was born in Baldwin, Maine, and died in Evanston, Illinois. He graduated from Yale in 1858 and studied at the Andover Theological Seminary for a Doctor of Divinity degree. He was ordained in 1862 and held pastoral positions at the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, Minnesota; Third Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Center Congregational Church in New Haven, Connecticut; and at Union Park Congregational Church in Chicago, Illinois. Noble was president of the New West Education Commision in 1885; edited the Advance from 1886-88; was moderator of the National Congregational Council in 1898; and president of the American Missionary Society from 1898-1900. He wrote numerous religious works and articles, including "The Divine Life in Man" (1895), "Typical New Testament Conversions" (The American Journal of Theology, April 1902), and "The Pilgrims" (1907). There is no record of Noble studying with Mary Baker Eddy or joining The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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