W. A. Pray (1839-1890) was born in Berwick, Maine, and died in an unknown location. During the Civil War, he served in the Maine 27th and 20th Volunteer Infantry Regiments. After the war, he worked as a farmhand and then later in the textile mills of Great Falls (now Somersworth), New Hampshire. There is no record of him studying with Mary Baker Eddy or uniting with the Church of Christ (Scientist).

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