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Show CLARA BARTON, FOUNDER OF THE RED CROSS, DIES Aged Nurse Had Been 111 Since February, 1911, and the' End Was Not Entirely Unexpected. SKETCH OF CAREER OF NOTED WOMAN Achieves Reputation That Places Her Name Among . the Greatest 'Women of Modern Times. WASHINGTON, April 12. Mies Clara Barton," founder of the American !?ed Cross and probably the most widely known American woman of her day, died at her home, Red Cross, in Glen Echo. M.d., this morninc at 9-o'clock. She was 00 years old. Miss Barton suffered an attack of pneumonia in February, inn, bad a relapse re-lapse and the disease became chronic. She wont last summer to her old home in Oxford, Mass., and returned to Glen Echo in feeble health last autumn. Muscular weakness of the heart developed de-veloped and for weeks the condition of the nurse had been such as to cause grave concern. Her mind was un-dimmed un-dimmed almost to tho last and her ready wit and quick repartee made her sick room a place of cheer. With her when the end came, were her nephew, Stephen Barton of Boston, and Dr. J. B. Hubbell. Tho ereat regret of Miss Bartou's last month was that her cnfocbled condition mado it accessary for her to suspend work on her autobiography. She had .brought this work down only to tho beginning of her public career un a civil war nurse. A woman whoso whole training fos tcrod precision, she left behind practically prac-tically tho entire correspondence of her public career as well as other data beuring upou her international hospital work and tho work which she herself began will bo completed by other hands. She had outlincrl to her nephew, Stephen Barton, the salient points of her public life. The last years of the great Ked Cross nurse had been spent in retirement. She maintained her winter home at Glen Echo, but passed part of each summer at hor birthplace in Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. She retired from the presidency of the American L'cd Cross in 1001 and since then bad had no affiliation with the organization of which she had been tho beud since its establishment largely large-ly through her offorts more than thirty years ago. Members of her household were Tcti cent in discussing Miss Bartou's withdrawal from the work, conteuting (Continued on Page Two.) Clara Barton, "Who Founded The Red Cross 'CLARA BART01 IS CALLED BI DEATH (Continued from Pngo One.) ihomsolves with the statement thai, she retired when more ambitious ones uimio forward. They sent no notification of her passinc either to President Taft or the executive body of the lied Cross. Funeral Plana. Misa Barton will be buried where she was born. On the slopes of the little cemetery in Oxford, .Mass., with father fa-ther and mother, brothers and sisters, she will ho. laid hard by whore her era rtlo w.ns rocked. Funeral services will bo held at the Glen Kcho homo .Sunday. At -Miss Barton Bar-ton V wish, expressed shortly before her death, her loug-timo friend, Mv.i John A. Logan, will deliver a eulo.uy. Eev, John A. Van Scluiiek nnd the Jtev. Dr. Curry. Universalis clergyman, will officiate. Miss Barton leaned toward I ui ersalism, but was a member of uo church. 'I he funeral party will leave here Sunday evening and further services in Oxford will be conducted Monday noon by .lie Row William 13. Barton of Chicago, a cousin, and the Rev. J'ercv II. Kplcr of Woreostcr, Mass., both Congregntiona lists. iMiss Clara Barton, whose international interna-tional reputation as a war time nurse, philanthropist and chanty worker, has placed her name among thone oi the greatest women of modern times, was born in Oxford, Mass., in .1821. Her first occupation, after graduating from the Clinton, N. Y., Liberal institute, was that of a school teacher. She followed this vocation for ten years previous to the civil war, giving up her position to go to the front with the union forces ns a nurse. Tier capacity ca-pacity for work and hor executive ability abil-ity soon won her recognition amouj those in oharjio of the battlefield reliet work, nnd bofore tho end of the struggle strug-gle she reached a high place in tho ranks of the Red Cross. After the war Miss Barton organized a bureau for locating missing soldiers. She started this research department with money out of her own pocket in order to aid grief stricken mothers whose boys wore missing after the great struggle. Located Missing Soldiers. Out of the S0.000 inquiries made, Miss Barton was able to traeo over 20,000 to a satisfactory conclusion and thus give the grieving parents dotails of their children's death and tho location loca-tion of their burial places. Congress, in recognition of Miss Barton 's work, voted her tho sum of $15,000. Miss Barton's labors along those lines proved too great a tax on a constitution con-stitution tried by the rigors of field service in the civil war, and she was obliged to go abroad. While she was in Europe the Franco-Prussian war broke out in 1870 and she organized the relief corps that succored the dying dy-ing and wounded in the battlefields of Strassburg, Belfort, Montpclier, and Paris. Tho brilliancy and bravery with which she ministered to the distressed won her a European reputation that rivaled tho love and veneration she inspirod in the United States. She was received in tho court of Queen Auguste and was decorated with several sev-eral honorary orders in recognition of her exploits. She was first elected president of the American Rei Cross in 1881, later or- ganizing an American amendment of the Red Cross to supply relief in all disasters, attending several peaco conferences con-ferences as representative from the United States and taking active interest inter-est in relief work in every great disaster dis-aster of recent years, including1 the Johnstown flood, Galveston flood, Spanish-American waT. Russian famine in 1892, the Sea .Islands (S. C.) disaster disas-ter in 1S03, and others. Miss Barton had been president of the National First Aid association since 1905, and held diplomas and decorations from Gormany, Baden, Austria, Servia, Turkey, Armenia, Switzerland, Spnin, Russia, Belgium; also a vote or thanks from the citizens citi-zens of Johnstown, Pa., Texas legislature, legisla-ture, etc. She was the only woman for whom a G. A. I?, post had beon named. Miss Barton was the author of "Tho History of tho Red Cross," "America's "Amer-ica's Relief Expedition to Asia Minor." Mi-nor." "History of the Red Cross in Peace and War." "A Storv of the Red Cross." "Story of My Childhood," Child-hood," together with many pamphlets, reports, etc. |
