Elnora B. Benford (1869-1964) was born in Illinois and died in Wheat
Ridge, Colorado. She worked as a dressmaker. Benford was a student of Mary Baker Eddy's,
completing the Primary class in May 1887 along with her parents, Sarah E. Benford and
William H. H. Benford. She completed the Primary class again in February 1889. Benford
was a member of both the Christian Scientist Association and the National Christian
Scientist Association, and she joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
Massachusetts, on July 1, 1893. She eloped from Omaha, Nebraska, with Max F. Trostler
and they married in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1902. They divorced in Denver, Colorado, in
1910, and she resumed using her maiden name thereafter. Benford was listed in the
directory of
The Christian Science Journal as a Christian
Science practitioner in Omaha from 1896 to 1903, and in Denver from 1904 to 1926. In
1904, she was elected as a member of the General Association of Teachers.
See more letters.