Elvira S. Robinson (1826-1906) was born in Fort Plain, New York, and died in Topeka, Kansas. She was an educator, graduating from the State Normal School at Albany, New York, in 1847. After graduation, she taught briefly in New York before moving west to teach in Racine, Wisconsin, and then Stewartsville, Missouri. In 1864, she moved to Topeka where she taught in the public schools before running a private school from her home at 1221 Polk Street. In 1885, she studied Christian Science with Silas J. Sawyer, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's, and then helped with the early growth of Christian Science in Topeka by selling copies of Science and Health and obtaining subscribers to The Christian Science Journal.

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