Dr. Mabel E. Elliott

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Dr. Mabel E. Elliott

General Director, American Womens Hospital and Near East Relief
Follow my updates from Turkey, Armenia, and Greece from 1919 to 1923.

I will publish excerpts from my letters and diary.

09/05/2025

Today is a big day for me - the publication of my biography, Unbreakable Healer, and a new edition of my memoir, under the title I intended - Children of Ararat. I wrote that book in 1923 in Athens, Greece with a very helpful and brilliant writer, Rose Wilder Lane. Because of circumstances of the time, Mrs. Lane's name could not appear on the book. You may not be familiar with Rose Wilder Lane, but it could be that you know her mother - Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the Little House series of books that inspired the television show, Little House on the Prairie. She helped her mother much as she helped me.
You can purchase the books at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and ordered through bookstores
Amazon links:
Biography: https://a.co/d/8i59MTH
Memoir: https://a.co/d/eiL04tw

08/23/2025

We are getting closer to September 15, the release of both Unbreakable Healer, Dr. Elliott's biography, and Children of Ararat, a new edition of her 1924 memoir.
It has been one incredible journey for me, to have the privilege to tell her story. I know in my heart why it has to be told now, because we haven't learned the lessons of what her work tried to help—the senseless suffering of women and children in places where people only see their differences.
From start to finish, the story takes the reader down many paths that are difficult, others that are startling—the senseless things that humans do to each other, including what happened to her during her service in Turkey, Armenia, and Greece.
Stay tuned!

08/09/2025

My 1924 memoir, Beginning Again at Ararat, will have a new edition on September 15, 2025 under its original title, Children of Ararat. Many kind people helped with the book as I state in the preface. One helped much, serving as my co-author, but due to circumstances of the time, could not appear on the cover. That person will be revealed on publishing day. A very interesting person who helped another aspiring author become world famous in both books and television. All will be revealed September 15!

07/22/2025

With my sister Beatrice in Greece, among my seven sisters. We had planned to vacation in Italy when the Burning of Smyrna occurred. Duty called and together aided relief efforts. For Beatrice is was baptism by fire.

07/21/2025

My sister Grace and I graduated from Rush Medical College, University of Chicago in 1904. Grace was my eldest sister, born in India, where my father served in the British Army.

07/06/2025

Proof copies ordered!

06/25/2025

In 1924, while on my book tour for Beginning Again at Ararat, I gave a radio address from station WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky. That was my first time in a radio station

06/15/2025

I was decorated with the Greek War Cross on March 3, 1923. I was the first woman who was awarded this medal by the Greek Government. It recognized my work in Rodosto helping refugees in the wake of the Burning of Smyrna.

06/13/2025

ON THIS DAY in 1968, Dr. Mabel Evelyn Elliott passed away in West Palm Beach, Florida at the age of 87. She slipped away at a place named for what she was - The Good Samaritan Hospital. When Dr. Elliott came to West Palm Beach in 1894 at age thirteen, the land where the hospital now stands was a pineapple field carved from the woods.
Her life mission took her to many continents, but with the same task—to be a humanitarian healer to all who needed help. She healed those in war-torn Armenia, Greece and Turkey, and brought modern pediatric care to Japan. She is truly the bravest person I have ever encountered. Sadly, our world today now ridicules those whose aspirations are not selfish. We can't fathom why someone would risk their own life and well being to help people in other countries. But we forget—we are all human. She never forgot it.

Mabel Evelyn Elliott, February 8, 1881 - June 13, 1968

06/10/2025

In 1922 and 1923, the Greek Government decorated me three times - The Silver Cross of St. George for my work in Ismid, and the Greek War Cross and the Gold Cross of St. George for my work in Rodosto and Smyrna. I don't know who has my medals today, but I hope they know what they represent.

05/29/2025

My life story...coming in September. It was the life I chose to live.

04/24/2025

Today commemorates the Armenian Genocide of 1915, 110 years ago. The orphans of Marash, seen in the photo below, were treated in my clinic and hospital. Near East Relief Historical Society housed many of these orphans. We were a brave band of Americans doing humanitarian service.

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West Palm Beach, FL
33401

Website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Evelyn_Elliott

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