Omaha daily bee., 1912-04-13
Received Messages from AL Parts of
World Last Anniversary.
NURSE ON MANY BATTLEFIELDS
She Was Aptly Called the Florence
Nightingale of America.
POUNDS AMERICAN RED CROSS
She Wns Actively Connected with
Relief Work During Civil War,
In France, Russia, Turkey
and Cuba.

lOuflueT OF tue 4NcA
Cross society, died at her home In Glen
Ecir0, Nd. today. The cause Of her
death was chronic pneumonia with which
she was stricken about a year ago. Her
brother Stephen Barton Of Boston, was
with her when she died. Miss Barton was
born at oxford, Mass, in lS2l.
Miss Barton had been confined 10 her
home, Red Cross at Glen Echo, Md,
since last fall. when she returned from a
, visit to New England, 1t was thought
Ser trip was beneficial. but soon after
Nard she vas taken seriously ILL.,
She celebrated her nlneiieth birthday
anniversary December ., when she re-
oeived many messages of congratulation
from all rarts Of the worc.
Nurse on Many BattIefields.
Clarissa Harlowe Barton, known
throughout Christendom as Clara Barton,
has been sptly called the Florence Night
ingale of America. on the battlefields OF
the civil war and in the camps OF the
French and German armies in Europe she
frsed wounded and dying soldiers. She
ok personal charge of the nursing Of
r fever patients of the south and after
tte fall OF the commune she entered Paris
n foot and distributed food to the starv-
Sng. She endured the ha~lshlps Of travel
in Russia and Turkey to relieve suffering
humanity and faced the dangers Of yellow
fever in Cuba to nurse Cuban reconcen-
trados and later the American soldiers
In Santiago.
Miss Barton was born December Is.
\12l, at oxford, Mass, and was the
Aughter Of Captain Stephen Barton, who
fought under Mad Anthony Wayne
against the Indians. After completing her
schooling she was a teacher for a time,
but the occupation did not suit her and
she became cloth trimmer in factory
Later. after course at The Clinton LIB
eral institute she ventursd upon q new
undertaking and founded free school ct
Bordentown. n. j.. which, beginning with
six pupils, quickly grew until II numbered
nearly 600. She was not contented at
Bordentown and going 10 washington,
secured a place In the patent office,
which she held until the outbreak OF the
civil war ta - -,'Tst
When hostliitles commenced Miss BAR.
ton Immediately gave up her place in the
patent office and advertised In the papers
of Worcester, Mass, that she would re-
ceive stores and money for wounded sol
diers at the front, which she would per.
sonally distribute. Her appeal was so
literally answered that II became neces-
slry to use large warerooms in Washing
j,n in which TO store the donations. She
&ent direct to the headquarters Of Cen
Feral Butler in Virginia and undertook
with ali the energy and will at her corn
mand the work of relief to the troops.
sh2 continued with the soldiers In Vir-
.Inia during neatly the entire period OF
7 the war and in 1854 General Butler ap-
pointed her head nurse of the hospitals
in the army OF the James. This was the
beginning OF her long service in relief
work. Miss Barton conducted all her
work independently Of other charitable
. relief organizations.
Hunts Missing soldiers.
Upon returning To Washington at the
close Of the war Miss Barton petitioned
congress for an Appropriation Of sl5.eoo
in payment Or her services in endeavor-
ing to discover missing soldiers Of the
army OF the Tinted States. ard IN com
rnunicating intelligence to their relatives"
Congress did not respond very readily to
her appeal. and when the bill finally
passed II was In payment Of services ren.
dered and to be rendered. During the
next few years Miss Barton engaged In
the work OF finding the graves Of SOL
diers unknown. missing or unrecorded.
After completing this work Miss Barton
took the lecture platform under an agree
ment TO lecture for DO nights at 800 a
night. Her subject was her experiences
in the war, and she was so well adver-
tlsed and managed that ii proved a very
successful venture until she broke down
in the spring Of 1851.
Two years later Miss Barton went to
Europe and she was abroad when the
Franco Prussisn war broke out. She
hurried to strsssburg and plunged head
long into the work Of nursing the
wcfladed soldiers. She proceeded later to
Paris and rendered assistance In reliev-
ing the distress after the fall Of Com
nune. Her work abroad did not go un-
recognized. In addition 10 rewards OF a
more substantial character she received
numerous medals and decorations from
The sovereigns of the old world.
works for Red Gross Treaty.
For several years after her return to
America size urged upon the government
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