Myrtle Page Fillmore

Myrtle Page Fillmore (born August 6, 1845, Pagetown, Ohio, U.S.—died October 6, 1931, Lee’s Summit, Missouri) was an American religious leader who, with her husband, founded Unity, a new religious movement that propounded a pragmatic healing and problem-solving faith. Mary Caroline Page, who later took the name Myrtle, grew up in a strict Methodist home. After a year at Oberlin College (1868–69), she became a schoolteacher in Clinton, Missouri, and then in Dennison, Texas. In...