Caroline "Carrie" H. Sawyer (1838-1932) was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and died in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She moved to Gloucester with her parents when she was five years old. In about 1857 she became the first drawing teacher in the Gloucester public schools, and from 1862 until 1900 she served as supervisor of drawing for the Gloucester school district. She gave up that profession to become a full-time Christian Science practitioner and teacher. She was introduced to Christian Science by relatives whom she was visiting in Newburyport in about 1887, and in 1888 she took the Primary class in Christian Science from Mary Baker Eddy's student Pamilia J. Leonard. She then took the June 1900 Normal class with Eddy's student Edward A. Kimball under the auspices of the Board of Education. Sawyer was listed as a practitioner, and then a teacher, in The Christian Science Journal from 1892 until 1921. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 1, 1893.

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