"AN ANGEL OF MERCY."
DEATH OF CLARA BARTON, WHO SERVED IN TWO GREAT WARS.
From, New York recently came the announcement of the death of Miss Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross Society of America, which occurred at Glen Echo, Maryland. Miss Barton, who was born in 1821. and who rendered valuable service during the Franco-Prussian War, other campaigns, had been ill lor some time. Clara Barton, who was born 91 years ago in Oxford, Massachusetts, v/as the American Florence Nightingale, the greater part of her life being cevoted to the service of wounded soldiers, although, unlike the "angel" of the Crimea, she was never engaged as a nurse. Her work was to get supplies to people who needed them, whether in war or in times of great catastrophes from flood, fire- earthquake, or pestilence. ]?arly. in life Clara Barton was a teacher, then the first woman clerk in a Government office at Washington. She gave this up at the opening of the American Civil War for work in the field. She was in the FrancoGerman War in 1870-1, serving on the fields of Metz, Strasburg, and Wderth, and in the hospitals of Baden. She was in Paris after the fall of the Commune. •.'■■: Miss Barton spent the seven years from'lß7s to 1882 in making the inter-i-ational Red Cross work known in the United States, and in 1831 she organised the American Red Cross. She was nominated to its first presidency by President Garfield. .<|Jhe assisted ia the Spanish-American War as well as on numerous occasions of disaster at home and abroad.
"AN ANGEL OF MERCY."
Northern Advocate, 6 June 1912, Page 6
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