John H. Thompson (1860-1928) was born in Canada and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He immigrated to the United States in 1875 and moved to Virginia City, Washington, where he owned a cattle ranch and worked as a railroad telegraph operator. He married Lida W. Thompson in about 1880. Thompson became interested in Christian Science in the early 1890s after his wife obtained a copy of Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. They both began reading it, and his wife was healed by doing so. They joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1898.
In November 1898 Eddy's student James A. Neal arranged with Thompson to provide Eddy with a gift of two horses for use at her Pleasant View home, and in early 1899 the Thompsons relocated to Concord, New Hampshire, where for a brief time they lived in a cottage on the Pleasant View grounds and Thompson worked for Eddy as a coachman and assisted with her horses. In March 1899 the Thompsons moved to Boston, where both began listing as practitioners in The Christian Science Journal in June 1899. They took the Normal class from Eddy's student Edward A. Kimball under the auspices of the Board of Education in June 1902. In 1906 and 1907, Thompson worked to correct the misinformation in Georgine Milmine's series of articles about Eddy that were being published in McClure's magazine by personally collecting information on Eddy's experiences in Franklin, North Groton, and Rumney, New Hampshire. He was named to the Committee on Business in 1908. Thompson maintained his Journal listing as a practitioner in Boston until his passing.
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John H. Thompson (1860-1928) was born in Canada and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He immigrated to the United States in 1875 and moved to Virginia City, Washington, where he owned a cattle ranch and worked as a railroad telegraph operator. He married Lida W. Thompson in about 1880. Thompson became interested in Christian Science in the early 1890s after his wife obtained a copy of Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. They both began reading it, and his wife was healed by doing so. They joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1898.
In November 1898 Eddy's student James A. Neal arranged with Thompson to provide Eddy with a gift of two horses for use at her Pleasant View home, and in early 1899 the Thompsons relocated to Concord, New Hampshire, where for a brief time they lived in a cottage on the Pleasant View grounds and Thompson worked for Eddy as a coachman and assisted with her horses. In March 1899 the Thompsons moved to Boston, where both began listing as practitioners in The Christian Science Journal in June 1899. They took the Normal class from Eddy's student Edward A. Kimball under the auspices of the Board of Education in June 1902. In 1906 and 1907, Thompson worked to correct the misinformation in Georgine Milmine's series of articles about Eddy that were being published in McClure's magazine by personally collecting information on Eddy's experiences in Franklin, North Groton, and Rumney, New Hampshire. He was named to the Committee on Business in 1908. Thompson maintained his Journal listing as a practitioner in Boston until his passing.
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