Carola Woerishoffer

Emma Carola Woerishoffer (August 1885 — September 11, 1911) was an American labor activist and settlement worker.

[2] After finishing college in 1907, Woerishoffer became a resident and a member of the board of managers at the Greenwich House settlement.

While traveling to a labor camp for her work in 1911, died in an automobile accident near Cannonsville, New York.

[4] Among the speakers at Woerishoffer's memorial service were Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Florence Kelley, Helen Marot, Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, George McAneny, and M. Carey Thomas.

The following year, her Bryn Mawr classmates and Ida M. Tarbell assembled and published a biographical tribute to Woerishoffer.

Carola Woerishoffer, from a 1912 publication.