Article March 12, 1904 Issue

A Correction

Archibald McLellan

Some years ago a relative of our Leader and Teacher, the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, a member of the McNeil family from which Mrs. Eddy descended, reported that the Right Hon. Sir John McNeil, G.C.B., of Edinburgh, Scotland, was her ancestor.

The source of information seemed to be authentic, and the statement was accepted and used in good faith by writers on Mrs. Eddy's genealogy.

Mrs. Eddy has had this matter carefully investigated and having obtained no positive proof that the Right Hon. Sir John McNeil was her ancestor, she requests that all others writing upon her biography shall in future observe this correction.

General John McNeil, who is known as the hero of Lundy's Lane, was a relative on Mrs. Eddy's father's side of the Baker family, and he was the brother of President Pierce's mother. This is probably the line of McNeil to which Mrs. Eddy belongs. Mrs. Eddy herself has no special interest in these subjects.

Archibald McLellan

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