Sister Gabriella Draper, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection includes obituaries, archival research correspondence, a personal data sheet, biographical notes, a prayer card, and photographs. Photographs may be of Sister or her family, although this is uncertain. Also included in this collection are photocopies of the title pages of books that Sister Gabriella owned, which were donated to the Saint Scholastica Library in Canon City, Colorado.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1895-1989
Creator
- Draper, Gabriella, 1881-1917 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is unrestricted. Materials are open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Gabriella Draper, OSB was born Cora Edith Draper in Colorado Springs on February 18th, 1881. Education was very important to her family, and when she entered the community on December 6th, 1906, she gifted her extensive personal library of literary and historical works to the Cannon City Academy's library. She made her perpetual vows in 1911, and at the Canon City Academy taught Latin, French, German, and English. Sister Gabriella died of tuberculosis on February 3rd, 1917 at the age of 36. She is buried in Lakeside Cemetery in Canon City, Colorado.
Extent
.1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Gabriella Draper, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-09-23
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives Repository
Archives
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago
7430 N. Ridge Blvd.
Chicago Illinois 60645 United States
(773) 764-2413 ext. 203
archives@osbchicago.org