Catherine E. Stevens (b. Seabury) (1852-1914) was born in Kickapoo, Illinois, and died in Winona, Minnesota. By 1870 she had moved with her family to Peoria, Illinois, where she married Henry C. Stevens in 1878. Her husband and his father, also named Henry Stevens, owned and operated H. Stevens & Son which sold books, stationery, and other goods, including Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Stevens's husband later became a real estate and insurance agent in Winona. In the mid-1880s Stevens was healed of blindness through Christian Science treatment by her sister Jeannette R. Seabury and subsequently took a class in Christian Science from her. Seabury was a student of Bradford Sherman, who in turn was a student of Mary Baker Eddy. Stevens was also a close friend of Sarah J. Holbrook, another of Eddy's students. Stevens joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1898, and was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal from 1898 until her passing. She wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1886 to order copies of Science and Health to be sold by H. Stevens & Son. She wrote to Eddy again in 1892 to endorse Seabury's application to Eddy's Normal class.

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