Esther Ellen Frame (née Gordon; July 10, 1840 – June 11, 1920) was an American minister and evangelist.

[1][5] Her father was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, and his ancestors came from the Scottish Highlands about the year 1720, and were Scotch-Irish.

Grandfather Gordon was educated for a Scotch Presbyterian minister, but left that denomination and joined the Baptists, because there were no Scotch Presbyterians where he was teaching school, for he was one of the first educators, and taught a number of years in Warren County, Ohio and Montgomery County, Ohio, and also in the State of Indiana.

Deborah Mendenhall, Esther Frame's mother, was born in New Garden, Guilford County, North Carolina.

She attended Blue River Seminary in the southern part of Indiana, her brother, Luther Gordon, being the principal of this school.

[5] Esther farmed during the spring and summer, or until the crop season was over, and taught school in the winter -- three or four months usually.

They soon earned and saved enough money to purchase a home in the town of Salem, Iowa, and continued to attend the Methodist meetings.

About this time, Esther's health became poor and she went to Indiana, taking Corrinne, the baby with her, and leaving Itasca with Nathan at Salem.

For more than twenty years, with her husband, who was a minister, she preached as an evangelist among all the principal churches of the U.S.[1] In 1901, she held a series of meetings in Whittier, California.