Anna L. Fisher
Anna Linderfelt Fisher (1878 – October 17, 1939) was an American Red Cross worker who ran an orphanage in Damascus. She was an advisor to Faisal I of Iraq in the short-lived Arab Kingdom of Syria in 1920, and held the rank of captain in the Syrian army. In 1927 she was appointed to the Ministry of Education in Iraq. Early life Anna Linderfelt (or Linderfeldt) Fisher was born in Milwaukee,"Mrs. Anna L. Fisher Rites to be Today"
''Poughkeepsie Eagle-News'' (October 19, 1939): 9. via Newspapers.com but was often described as being from New York, or from California, either Pasadena, California, Pasadena or Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara, depending on the source. She was the daughter of Swedish-born librarian Klas August Linderfelt and Margaret Eliza Parker Linderfelt.
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