I wasn't able to locate any information for Elsie online other than her birth/death dates: Born 21 Aug 1893; Died 8 Feb 1996. The following historic events-of-interest occurred during Elsie's birth year in 1893:
Jan 1 - 1st US college extension courses for credit, University of Chicago
Jan 2 - 1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued (Queen Isabella, patron of Columbus)
Feb 1 - Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey
Mar 3 - US Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture
Mar 4 - Grover Cleveland (D) inaugurated as 24th US President (2nd term)
May 1 - World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
May 4 - Cowboy Bill Pickett invents bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground
May 5 - Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange
Jun 20 - Lizzie Borden acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts
Jun 21 - 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
Jul 22 - Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" in Colorado
Sep 4 - English author Beatrix Potter first writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5 year old boy
Oct 6 - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
Nov 28 - Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election
Dec 24 - Henry Ford completes his first useful petrol / gasoline fuelled engine