Nona Lovell Brooks, described as a "prophet of modern mystical Christianity", was a leader in the New Thought movement and a founder of the Church of.
Background
Brooks was born on March 22, 1861 in Louisville, Kentucky, the youngest daughter of Chauncey and Lavinia Brooks. Due to the collapse of her father"s salt mining business, the family moved again, this time to Pueblo, Colorado where he entered the metal mining business.
Education
At a fairly early age, her family moved just outside Charleston, West Virginia, where Brooks graduated from the Charleston Female Academy.
Career
He died shortly after the move, when Brooks was 19. In 1890, with the aim of becoming a teacher, Brooks enrolled at Pueblo Normal School, which was followed by a one-year stay at Wellesley College. While attending these classes, Brooks "found herself healed of a persistent throat infection" and shortly thereafter Brooks and Small began to heal others
During this period, she also served on several Denver civic boards, including the Colorado State Prison Board.
Nona L. Brooks died March 14, 1945 in Denver, Colorado. Nona was described by many who knew her as warm, gentle, and "motherly", but with "a strength that came from conviction".