Charles H. Rust (1847-1930) was born in Northfield, New Hampshire, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio. He married Anna D. Brown in Cincinnati in 1876. Rust worked for the Union Central Life Insurance Corporation which his father, Richard S. (Richard Sutton) Rust, founded. He was involved with the United States temperance movement, editing The Light, a temperance newspaper published in Cincinnati, from 1886-1888 and serving as Chairman of the Hamilton County Prohibition Executive Committee. Rust's father was a Baker family friend and a friend of Mary Baker Eddy's.

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