Virginia T. Johnson (c. 1858-1951) was born and died in Washington, District of Columbia. She attended the Packer Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She became interested in Christian Science in the 1880s and studied with Mary Baker Eddy's student Emma Gray. In March 1888 she took Eddy's Primary class at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College and subsequently joined the National Christian Scientist Association. In the early 1890s Johnson opened an office in Washington, D.C., where she operated a healing practice that she advertised in the local newspaper, and she was also listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal from 1891 to 1895. Johnson worked with others to organize regular Sunday Christian Science meetings in Washington, D.C., including a Sunday School that she established in 1892. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 5, 1892. In the early 1900s Johnson became employed as a reading room assistant at the Library of Congress.

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