OBITUARY.
MISS CLARA BARTON. . By Telegraph.— Press Association,— Copyright, (Received April 13, 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 12th April. Miss. Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross Society, is dea<l. / Death was due to chronic pneumonia. [Miss Clara Barton was" born at Oxford, Massachusetts, in 1830.' In her early years Mice Barton taught echool and * founded tho free schools of New Jersey. At the beginning of the" Civil war 6ho entered into the hospital service.' She assisted the Grand Duchess of Baden in establishing hofipitnle during tho % FrancoGerman war, following the Gorman army, for which services eho was honoured with the Gold Cross of Baden ana the Iron Cross of Germany. Returned to America, Miss Barton organised, in 1881, the world-famous American Red Cross Society, and became ito first presi- ' dent. Though nearly seventy, Mies Barton personally superintended the relief work among the Armenians in 1896, and again the hospital work in tho Spanish-American war of 1898, a-nd the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 5
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162OBITUARY. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 5
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