Elizabeth "Lizzie" B. Scribner (1837-c.1926) was born in Kingston, Massachusetts, and died in California. She served in the Civil War as a nurse, joining the Wisconsin Soldiers' Aid Society, in the Washington, D.C. area, in 1862. She transferred to McDougall General Hospital in Fort Schuyler, New York, in 1863, and in 1864 she was promoted to Lady Superintendent of Lovell General Hospital in Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island, serving in that capacity through the end of the war in 1865. She subsequently moved west and in 1870 married Eben Scribner who worked as an amalgamator in the mining industry in Dayton, Nevada. They remained in Nevada until the 1880s when they relocated first to Southern California, near San Bernardino, and later to Lakeport, in Northern California. Subsequent to her husband's passing in 1894, Scribner moved to Berkeley, California. In 1886, Scribner wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to purchase a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Based on the records available, we have found no further information concerning her involvement with Christian Science.

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