Ida E. Shute (b. Mathews) (1859-1947) was born in Ossipee, New Hampshire, and died in Concord, New Hampshire. By 1870 she had moved with her family to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where she married Edward P. Shute in 1882. They were both schoolteachers. Sometime before 1900 they moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where they remained until at least 1930. Sometime in the early 1930s they moved to DeLand, Florida, and in 1937 they moved to the Christian Science Pleasant View Home in Concord, where they remained for the rest of their lives. In 1886 Shute wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to ask for a recommendation for a healer and to order literature. She studied Christian Science with Susie M. Lang, a student of Eddy who was practicing and teaching in Lawrence, and she and her husband both joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1893. Shute was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal from 1895 until 1905.

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