The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-04-16
news FROM THE LIVE WIRES
MISS CLARA BARTON, FOUNDER
AN. RED CROSS SOCIETY, DEAD


Washington, April 12.-Miss Cora
Barton, founder Of the American Red
Cross society, died at her home In
Glen Echo, Md, TO day. The cause Of
her death was chronic pneumonia.
with which she was stricken about
year ago. Her brother Stephen
Barton OF Boston, was with her.
Miss Barton was born at Oxford,
Mass, In 1921,
Miss Barton has been confined to
her home, Red Cross" at Glen
Echo, since last fall when she return
ed from visit to New England. 1t
was thought her trip was beneficial
hut soon afterward she was taken
seriously i'll. She celebrated her nine
tieth birthday anniversary December
20.
Miss Barton might properly be cal
led the Florence Nightingale of Am.
erica. Like her British prototype,
her works of mercy were not confin-
ed to her native land, but were car
rled even into the eastern hemis.
phere. She will be written down in
history as the founder OF the Red
Cross in America, but her powerful
personality also made an indelible
impression on the international or
ganization itself through her active
participation in the periodical confer.
ence at Geneva, Carlsruhe, Rome,
Vienna and st. Petersburg.
Miss Barton was 40 years OF age
when first she turned her attention
to the great works Of humanity which
have made her name famous. The
Red Cross was established in Am.
erica In 1881, and Miss Barton was
its president from that date until
1904. Before that time she had made
name for herself by her services on
batthefields beginning in the Civil
war and extending through the
Franco-Russian war. Congress recog-
nized her efforts in the first case by
an appropriation of $4,000 to be dis.
bursed by her in searching for miss
ing men after the various battles OF
the war.
Miss Barton's work became more
extended with the organization of
the American Red Cross and cover
ed the new field of catastrophes In
in time of peace. She distributed re-
lief to the sufferers from the Johns
town flood and went to Russia in
1892 to carry food to the famine suf-
ferers there. In the following year
she was ministering to the destitute
survivors of the tidal wave which
struck South Carolina and Florida.
In 1896 she was aiding the Armen-
ian families decimated by the Turks,
and yet when yellow fever appeared
among the American troops in Cuba,
following the battles around Santi-
ago, it was Clara Barton who, at the
request of President Mckinley, or
gapized hospitals and personally
spent her time on the battle lines
Her last work of national promince
was in connection with the great
Galveston Flood relief in 1900.
In 1904 the Red Cross was reorgan
lied, President (then secretary Taft
being chosen as president and Miss
Barton, then far advanced in age
and somewhat broken in health
from exposure and hardships, retired
from active connection with the or
ganization. She has rested for the
last 7 years at her home at Glen
Echo, Md, on the banks of the up
per Potomac.
During her lifetime she received
many decorations from foreign coun
tries in recognition of her services
to humanity and her varied expert
ences have been recorded in perman
ent form in her liberal contributions
to literature, mostly relating to the
activities of the Red Cross.
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