Anna L. Van Derzee (b. Collier) (1856-1943) was born and died in New York. She attended the Albany Female Academy in Albany, New York, and later married Andrew Van Derzee, a lawyer, in 1884. Van Derzee studied Christian Science with Augusta E. Stetson, a student of Mary Baker Eddy. She held the position of First Reader at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Albany, and she joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 1, 1893. Van Derzee was listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner in Albany from 1897-1899. She left the church in March 1900.

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