Elisabeth Gilman

[1] At the age of seven, Elisabeth's father took the post as the first president of Johns Hopkins University and the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland.

Gilman attended Miss Hall's School until age eleven, when due to eye trouble, she was tutored by her governess at home.

Instead of attending Bryn Mawr, Gilman traveled to France as a representative of the National Committee on Surgical Dressings.

When Gilman returned to the United States at the age of twenty, she entered into social work at the request of her father.

Gilman was also a core member of the National Mooney-Billings Committee, which was "organized to help secure the pardon of Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, serving life sentences in California prisons".