Oil on canvas portrait from life by Eben F. Comins
Original Longyear Collection, Longyear Museum, AW0291

EMMA EASTON NEWMAN, C.S.D.
At the age of seventeen, Emma Easton, along with her parents, entered Mary Baker Eddy's March 1889 Primary class in Christian Science. After this class, Miss Easton was awarded the degree of C.S.B. (Bachelor of Christian Science), and two years later she was listed in The Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner. Upon completion of Mrs. Eddy's class of 1898 in Concord, New Hampshire, Miss Easton was awarded the further degree of C.S.D., the degree described by Mrs. Eddy as Doctor of Christian Science. In 1899 she was instrumental in organizing a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and she and William P. McKenzie were appointed the church's Readers. In 1904, Emma Easton and Rolf Newman of Riverside, California were married, and in 1910 they settled in Riverside. In 1919, Mrs. Newman taught her first Christian Science Primary class in Los Angeles. Among her later students was Mary Baker Glover Billings, Mrs. Eddy's granddaughter.