J. D. Woodward (c. 1834-?) was born in New York and died in an unknown location. He worked as a lawyer in Chicago, Illinois. In 1884 he took a class in Chicago on metaphysics taught by A. J. Swarts. Although he wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1885, looking to become one of her students, there is no record of Woodward studying with Eddy or joining The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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