Janet Elliott Wulsin

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Janet Elliott Wulsin
Portrait, 1921
Born	Janet January Elliott (1893-10-17)October 17, 1893[1] St. Louis, Missouri, United States[1]
Died	November 15, 1963(1963-11-15) (aged 70)[1]
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	nurse; explorer
Spouse(s)	Frederick Wulsin (1919–1929) Richard Hobart (after 1929)
Children	Muffie Cabot
Parents	Howard Elliott[1] (father) Janet January[1] (mother)
Relatives	Ali Wentworth (granddaughter)

Janet Elliott Wulsin (October 17, 1893 – November 15, 1963) was an American early 20th-century explorer, whose accomplishments place her in line with contemporary women explorers such as Alexandra David-Neel.

Janet January Elliott was reared in an affluent family in Boston and New York, the daughter of railroad executive, Howard Elliott. Anxious to explore, Janet was tired of the "superficial social life of her world in New York," and, in 1918, at age 24, she joined the Red Cross as a nurse in France to help out the war effort and to be near her fiancé, Frederick Roelker Wulsin, whom she married in 1919.