Laura E. Wiggin (b. Newman) (1844-1924) was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, and died in Greenwich, Connecticut. She married James Henry Wiggin, an ex-Unitarian minister who was Mary Baker Eddy's literary advisor and copy editor, in Brattleboro in 1864. In 1870 they were living in Medfield, Massachusetts, and by 1880 they were living in Boston, Massachusetts. Wiggin wrote to Eddy in 1900, asking if Eddy would like to purchase items relating to Christian Science and her husband, who had just passed away. Eddy requested that Wiggin return the letters she had written to James. It was arranged so that Joseph Armstrong, who served on the Christian Science Board of Directors and as publisher of the writings of Eddy, ended up purchasing these from Wiggin. Wiggin also sold the copyright of Christian Science and the Bible (1886), written by her husband, assigning it to Armstrong. In 1903 Wiggin was living back in Brattleboro. By 1920 she was living in Cleveland, Ohio, and she passed away while visiting her son in Greenwich. Wiggin was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

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