Jane Craven

Dr. Jane Wells Craven (born January 25, 1875) was an American doctor, prize-winning tennis player, World War I ambulance driver, and medic. She won the 1899 U.S. National Championships in women's doubles tennis and received the Croix de Guerre in 1917 for her medical service in France during the war. After her tennis career, she became a Roman Catholic nun and took the name Sister Elizabeth. Jane Wells Craven was born in Lucknow, India, and her family immigrated to the United States in 1879, settling in Evanston, Illinois. She had three siblings and attended Evanston Township High School.More