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THE LIFE OF MARY BAKER EDDY

York, the founding of a beautiful outpost of the faith in the great city of London, and the arousing to a closer, vital relationship with the Mother Church of the whole Pacific coast, gave Mrs. Eddy also the comfort of being able to reconcile her son, George Glover, to her wise plans for him. The consummation of an agreement took place and was signed on November 10, 1909, between Mrs. Eddy and her son and her adopted son, by which settlement she transferred to George W. Glover and his family the sum of $245,000 and to Ebenezer J. Foster-Eddy the sum of $45,000. The sum given to her son, George Glover, was inclusive of the trust fund previously created by which she had conveyed securities valued at $125,000 to the guardianship of her counsel for his benefit, but which he had previously rejected, and also funds already paid for the benefit of himself and family. Her son and adopted son professed themselves satisfied with this settlement and executed deeds relinquishing all their present and prospective rights or expectant interests in their mother’s estate, either as heirs-at-law or legatees under any previously made will of Mrs. Eddy. They severally acknowledged that full particulars of her estate had been made known to them. The settlement was brought about through a series of conferences held between General F. S. Streeter, Mrs. Eddy’s counsel, the Honorable Henry M. Baker, Mrs. Eddy’s trustee, and former United States Senator William E. Chandler, counsel for the sons. On July 16, 1910, she received her two grandsons at her home