The Mena weekly star., 1912-04-18
NOTED AMERICAN
 WOMAN IS DEAD
Miss Clara Barton, Florence Night ingaIc of America, Founder of American Red Cross Society,
 Passes Away at Glen Echo.

Washington, D. C., April i2.- Miss Clara Barton. founder of the American Red Cross society. died at her home in Glen Echo, Md, today. Pneumonia, with which she was stricken about year ago, was the cause. Her brother, stephen Bar ton Of Boston, was with her when she died.
 Miss Barton had been confined to her home, Red Cross, Glen Echo, since last fall when she returned from visit to New England. 1t was thought that her trip was beneficial, but soon afterward she was taken seriously ill. She cee- brated her 90th birthday December %.
 Life Full of Good Works.
 Miss Clara Barton, whose inter- national reputation as war time nurse, philanthropist and charity worker has placed her name among those of the greatest women of modern times, was born in Oxford, Mass. in 1891. Her first occupation, after graduating from the Clinton, New York, Liberal institute, was that of school teacher.
 She followed this avocation for ten years. previous to the civil war giving up her position to go Co the front with the Union forces as a nurse. Her capacity for work and her executive ability soon won her recognition among those in charge of the battlefield relief work and before the end of the struggle she reached high place in the ranks of the Red Cross.
 After the war Miss Barton or ganized a bureau for locating miss ing soldiers. She started this re- search department with money out of her own pocket, in order to aid grief-stricken mothers whose boys were missing after the great strug- gle.
 Out of the S0,OO0 inquiries made, Miss Barton was able to trace over 10000 to a satisfactory conclusion and thus give the grieving parents details of their children's death and the location of their burial places. Congress, in recognition of Miss Bartons work, voted her the sum of sl5,000.
 Miss Bartons labors along these lines proved too great tax on a constitution tried by the rigors Of field service in the Civil war, and she was obliged to go abroad. While she was in Europe the Franco prussian war broke out in 1870 and she organized the relief corps that succored the dying and wounded in the battlefleds of Strassburg, Belfort, Montpelier and Paris.
 Was H0Rored Abroad.
 The brilliancy and bravery with which she ministered to the dis tressed won her a European repu- tation that rivalled the love and veneration she inspired in the United States. She was received in the court of Queen Auguste and was decorated with several honor ary orders in recognition of her exploits.
 She was first elected president of the American Red Cross in 1881, later organizing an American amendment of the Red Cross to supply relief in all disasters, att tending several peace conferences as representative from the United States and taking active interest in relief work in every great disaster of recent years, including the Johnstown flood, Galveston flood, Spanish American war, Russian famine in 1892, the Sea Islands, $. C., disaster in 1898, etc.
 Miss Barton has been president of the National First Aid Associa- ton since 1905, and holds diplomas and decorations from Germany, Ba- dan, Austria, Servia, Turkey, Ar menia, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, Belgium; also a vote of thanks from the citizens of Johnstown. Pa, Texas legislature. etc. She is the oriy woman for whom a G. \. R. post has been named.
 Miss Barton is the author of the History of the Red Cross" Amer iea's Relief Expedition to Asia Minor" History of the Red Cross in Peace and War" "A Story of the Red Cross, Story of My Child hood, together with many pamph- ipfs ppnopfs afc