Emily C. Sterns (b. Coffin) (1848-1929) was born in Vernon River, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and died in Springfield, Massachusetts. She immigrated to the United States in 1867 and settled in Westfield, Massachusetts, where she married Robert D. Stearns in 1869. He was an organmaker and the foreman of Johnson & Son Organ Company in Westfield. Sterns's husband died in 1897 and by 1900 she had moved to Springfield. In 1887 Sterns wrote to Mary Baker Eddy twice to order Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and other Christian Science literature. She studied Christian Science with Clara E. Choate, one of Eddy's students, and joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 9, 1908. She was also a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Springfield.

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