John V. Dittemore

John Valentine Dittemore
Born	(1876-09-30)September 30, 1876 Indianapolis
Died	May 10, 1937(1937-05-10) (aged 60) New York
Occupations	Packing company executive Committee on Publication church director author

John Valentine Dittemore (September 30, 1876 - May 10, 1937) was director of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, the Christian Science church, in Boston from 1909 until 1919. Before that he was head of the church's Committee on Publication in New York, and a trustee for ten years of the estate of Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), the founder of the church.^[1] Dittemore is best known as the co-author, with Ernest Sutherland Bates, of Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition (1932).