Elie Jean B. "E. B." Hazzard (1841-1913) was born in Weare, New Hampshire, and died in Lawrence, Kansas. He graduated from Harvard Law School and worked as a lawyer for many years. During the 1880s, Hazzard advertised regularly in Mental Healing Monthly as a "Professor of Christian Science and Oriental Philosophy: Practitioner of Applied Metaphysics and Mind-Cure." He was head of the "New York School of Primitive and Practical Christian Science" and also advertised as "Demonstrator in charge and teacher of Christian Science, Mind-Healing and Metaphysics" at The Holden Healthery and Mind-Healing Home in Watkins, New York. In 1887, Hazzard published his own guidebook to mental treatment: The Mind-Cure Mentor, A Hand-Book of Healing, A Textbook of Treatments, A Compendium of Practical Christian Science. He also authored Essence of Mind-Cure: A Primer of "Christian Science". He was Associate Editor of A. J. Swarts' Mental Science Magazine, which regularly published articles repudiating the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy. Hazzard was never a student of Eddy, but because he called himself a Christian Scientist and sometimes quoted her, his teachings were mixed with hers in the press, thereby furthering public confusion of Christian Science with mind-cure. Even so, he wrote to Eddy in an undated letter that he had "...a deep admiration for your genius and character and a genuine confidence in your mission and its success." Hazzard turned his attention to allopathy and studied at the Yale School of Medicine and the Medical and Surgical College of the State of New Jersey. He graduated in 1888. By 1892, he was living in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and was listed in the city directory as a physician and surgeon. In 1895, he married Cornelia J. Hazzard in Lawrence, where he spent the remainder of his life and continued to work as a physician.

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