Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-04-13
DEATH CLAIMS
CLARA BARTON
Florence Nightingale of
America Called TO Her
Reward
FOUNDER Of ! RED CROSS
HAB REFN NINISTERING ANGEL
TO STEICkI'N IN TIMES
OF WAR AND PES
THENCE.
By Associated Press.

~ Associated Press
Washington. d. c., April Miss
Clara Barton, founder of the Red
Cross. and the most widely known
American woman OF her day, died
al her home in Glen Echo, Maryland,
this morning at the age of ninety
years.
Miss Barton Suffered an attack OF
pneumonia In 1911, which became
chronic.
The last few wears Of her life the
great Red Cross nurse spent IN re-
tirement.
Funeral services will be held at
Glen Echo Sunday Mrs. John A.
Logan, a lifelong friend, will deliver
a eulogy.
sketch of Career.
Clarissa Harlowe Barton, known
throughout Christendom as Clara
Barton, has been aptly called the
Florence nightingale of America. on
the battlefields OF the civil war and
I'm the camps of the French and Ger
man armies in Europe she nursei
wounded and dying soldiers. She took
personal charge of the nursing OF
the fever patients Of the South, and
after the fall OF the Commune she
entered Paris on foot and distributed
food 20 the sta,ving. She endured
the hardships Of travel in Russia
and Turkey TO rclicye suffering hui
manity and faced the dangers Ct yel-
low fever in Cuba 10 nurse Cuban re-
concentrates and later the American
soldiers In Santiago
Miss Barton was born December
Is, 1871, at oxford. Mass, ard wa;
the daughter OF Capt stephen Bar
ton. who fought under Mad Anthony
Wayne against the Indians AiteI
completing her schooling she was
teacher for time. but the occupation
did not suit her and she became
cloth trimmer in a factory Later
after a course at the Clinton Liberia
Institute. she ventured upon a new
undertaking. and founded a frei
school al Bordentown, y. j., which
beginning with six pupils, qaioRl'
REV until it numbered nearly GOO
She was not content at Bordentowi
and. going TO Washineton, secured
nlacc in the Patent Office. which sh'
held until the outbreak OF the civi
war
When hostitilities commenced Mis-
Barton Immediately gave up her plac
IN the Patent office and ADVERTISE
IN tho papers OF Worcester, Mass
that she would receive stores an
money for wounded soldiers az th
front. which she would personaU
distribute Her appeal was so liber
ally answered that Il became ncces
sarv 10 use larco ware-rooms d
WASHINGTON IN which 20 store th
donations She went direct 10 IN
bead0uartors Of Con lutler IN Vii
cinia and undertook with all tho er
orgy and will az hor command th
work Of relief 10 tho troops Sh
continued with tho soldiers IN VII
ainia during nearly the entire period
of the war. and In 1864 Gen. Rul
lor appointed her head nurse Of IN
hospitals Of the Army ot the Jamoi
This was the beginning of her Ion
service in relief work Miss Parto
conducted all her work independent
of other charitable or relief orrani7'
tions
Upon returning 10 Washington
tho close ~ the war Miss Barton n
titioned Congress for an appropri'
tion of $4,000 IN paymen for h'
services in endeavoring 70 discove
missing soldiers Of the army Of q
United States. and in communicatin
intelligence n their relatives COT
rress did not respond very readil
20 her appeal, and when the bill III
ally passed Il was In payment OF Sc
vices rendered and 20 be rendere'
During the next few wears Miss IA
ton engaged IN the work Of iindin
the graves of soldiers unknown, mis-
ing or unrecorded.
After completing This work MI
Barton took the lecture platform ~
der an agreement 70 lecture Tor ''
nights az 500 n night Her srh'e
was her experience in tho war. an
she was 30 we'll advertised and mai
agcd that Il proved a very succcs
ful venture until she broke down
the spring OF 1867.
Two Years later Miss Barton wei
20 Europe. and was abroad when q
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