Hendrick, Burton Jesse (1870-1949). American magazine writer, editor, and biographer. Hendrick graduated from Yale in 1895 and worked as a newspaper journalist until 1905, when he became a staff writer at McClure’s Magazine. Cather blamed him for errors in the first serialized installment in McClure’s of a biographical exposé of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science. In 1913 Hendrick became associate editor of the World’s Work, a public affairs magazine founded by Walter Hines Page. Having won the Pulitzer Prize in biography as co-author of Victory at Sea (1921) and author of The Life and Letters of Walter Hines Page (1922), he left the magazine in 1927 to pursue writing biographies and histories, winning a third Pulitzer for a follow-up Page biography. Doubleday, Page, and Company, of which Walter Page was a partner, published all of Hendrick’s books.

Russell, Philemon Robbins, Jr. (1841-1922). American shoe factory worker. Born in Fall River, MA, a son of the Rev. Philmon R. Russell and his second wife, Harriet Wilkins Russell, the younger Philemon Russell served in the Civil War. He married Caroline E. Perkins in 1865, and after her death married Annie B. Blake in 1894; they had one daughter, Susan. In 1867 he was living in Lynn, MA, and rented a room to future Christian Science founder Mary Baker Patterson (later Eddy) and her husband, Daniel Patterson, who left his wife shortly thereafter. Russell evicted Mary Patterson a month later, partly because of her failure to pay rent and because his father and wife objected to her. His half-sister, Julia Russell Walcott, also knew Mary Patterson at this time. Russell was one of Georgine Milmine’s sources and was involved in lawsuits involving Mary Baker Eddy when Cather was working on the Christian Science series for McClure’s.