Mary J. Nutting (b. Winslow) (c.1830-1899) was born in Unity, Maine, and died in Wakefield, Massachusetts. She married George S. Nutting, an insurance agent, in Portland, Maine, in 1863, and by 1870 they were living in Newton, Massachusetts. Nutting studied Christian Science with Mary W. Munroe, a student of Mary Baker Eddy. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 31, 1892, and was a member of The Christian Science Dispensary Association. Nutting was listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner in Newton in 1890 and in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1892 until her death. Although Nutting intended to study with Eddy, there is no record of her doing so.

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