Show FOUNDER OF RED GROSS CROSS DEAD t I Ii I II II I Miss Clara Barton Most Widely Known American Woman of Her 1 Day Day Called at Age ge of 90 Washington Washington Miss Miss Clara Barton founder rounder of ot the the- American Red Cross and probably the most wid widely ly IY known American n Woman of her da daj died at ather her ber home Red Cross Jross in then Echo Md Friday morning at 9 o'clOCk She was 90 years old Miss 1 Barton suffered an attack of at pneumonia In February 1911 had a relapse and the disease became chronic Miss Barton might properly bo be called the Florence Nightingale of America Like l her er British prototype her works of mercy were not confined to her native land but were carried oven into the eastern hemisphere Miss Barton was 40 years of ot ago when first she turned her attention to the great works of have made her name famous The Ther r 4 f f y yb b MISS CLARA BARTON I Red Cross was established in America Amer Amei ion ica In 1881 and Miss Barton was its president from that date until 1904 Before that time she had made a name for herself by her services on battlefields beginning in the civil war and extending through the Franco- Franco Prussian war Congress recognized her good offices in the first case by byan byan byan an appropriation of 1500 to be disbursed disbursed dis dis- by her in searching for missIng missing missing miss miss- ing men after the various battles of the war J iJ e extended with the organization of the American Red Cross and covered the new field of ot catastrophes in time of peace She distributed relief to the sufferers from the Johnstown flood and went to Russia Russa In 1852 1892 to carry food to the famine sufferers there In Inthe Inthe Inthe the following year she was ministerIng ministering minister minister- ing to the destitute survivors of the tidal wave Which struck South Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina Una and Florida In 1896 she was aiding the Armenian families decimated decimated decimated deci deci- mated by the Turks and yet when yellow w fever appeared among the American troops in Cuba following the battles around Santiago it was Clara ClaTa Barton who at the request of at I President McKInley organized field hospitals and personally spent her time lime on the battle lines Her last i work of national prominence was in connection with the great Galveston flood relief in 1900 In 1904 the Red Cross was wag President then secretary Taft being chosen its president and Miss Barton then far advanced In age I and somewhat broken in health from exposure and hardships retired from active connection with the tion Miss Barton will be buried burled where she was born In the slopes of the little cemetery in Oxford Mass with father rather and mother brothers and sisters sisters sis sis sis- she will be laid hard by where her cradle was rocked |