Sally T. Wentworth (1819-1883) was born and died in Stoughton, Massachusetts. She married Alanson C. Wentworth, a farmer and shoemaker. When Mary Baker Eddy left Amesbury, Massachusetts, she went to live with the Wentworths in Stoughton from 1868-1870. She met Sally Wentworth through her first student, Hiram S. Crafts, when Wentworth took her daughter to Crafts for treatment. Eddy was invited to stay at the Wentworths in exchange for instruction in Eddy's metaphysical system of healing through prayer. Sally Wentworth took up the practice of healing and would also copy for Eddy. While living with the Wentworths, Eddy would spend much of her time studying and writing, and it was here where she completed her first work on Christian Science, a teaching manuscript titled The Science of Man, which would find its way into the third and subsequent editions of Science and Health as the chapter "Recapitulation."

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