1. Cora Elm was a member of the Oneida Nation, and attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School from 1906 to 1913.
11 Facts About Cora Elm
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Cora Elm's father was a farmer, born in Canada, and her grandmother was a midwife.
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Cora Elm's grandfather Jacob Hill was a hereditary chief in the Oneida nation.
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Cora Elm attended the Carlisle Indian School from 1906 to 1913, and trained as a nurse at the Episcopal Hospital School of Nursing in Philadelphia, graduating in 1916.
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Cora Elm worked as supervisor of the wards at the Episcopal Hospital after she graduated.
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Cora Elm participated in demonstration for women's suffrage at the White House in 1917.
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In December 1917, Cora Elm volunteered for overseas service and sailed to France, where she worked as a Red Cross nurse at the base hospital in Nantes.
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Cora Elm wrote about her wartime experiences for the Carlisle Arrow magazine.
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Cora Elm was one of the two Native American nurses known to serve in Europe during the war, though others served in stateside military hospitals.
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Cora Elm died in 1949, aged 58 years, at a veterans' hospital in North Carolina.
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Cora Elm was buried with military honors, and her gravesite at Holy Apostles Church Cemetery in Oneida includes a military headstone.