Alice M. Peck (1848-1933) was born in Watertown, Wisconsin, and died in Appleton, Wisconsin. By 1884 she was living in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where she worked as a clerk and later as a bookkeeper. She began listing as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal in 1891, maintaining her listing until 1915. Peck joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts (also known as The Mother Church), on July 1, 1893. In June 1900 she took the Normal class from Mary Baker Eddy's student Edward A. Kimball under the auspices of the Board of Education and thereafter began teaching Christian Science. Peck served a term as First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in the early 1900s. Around 1904 she relocated to Butte, Montana, where she was a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Butte, Montana, and served as its First Reader, remaining there through 1907. She then went to serve on the staff at Eddy's Pleasant View home in Concord, New Hampshire, from April until early October of 1908, thereafter moving to London, England, from 1909 until 1914. After Peck returned to the United States, she lived in Long Beach, California. In 1932 she went to live with Myra I. Klapstein in Appleton. Klapstein had joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in November 1925 and was a Christian Science nurse listed in the Journal.

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