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.

Anna Linderfelt (or Linderfeldt) Fisher was born in Milwaukee,[1] but was often described as being from New York,[2][3] or from California, either Pasadena or Santa Barbara, depending on the source.

She organized schools, encouraged the development of traditional handicrafts,[10] and ran the American Red Cross orphanage in Damascus.

[18] Anna Linderfelt was engaged to architect Oswald Constantin Hering IV in 1900, while she was living in Paris.