The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
MISS CLARA BARTON, F AMOUS AMERICAN NURSE, DIESAT HOME She Was the Founder of the American Red
 Cross CHRONIC PNEUMONIA WAS CAUSE OF DEATH Was Ninety Years Old at Her Death. In II Health for Some Time.
 Began Work in the
 Civil War

Washington, April 12-Afiss Clara Barton. founder of the American Red Cross, and probably the most widely known American woman of her day. died at her home. Red Gross. in Glen Echo, Md, this morning at o'clock. She was go years old
 Miss Barton suffered an attack of pneumonia in February, 1911, had relapse and the disease became chonic. She went last summer. as usual to her old home in Oxford, Mass, and returned to Glen Echo in feeble health last autumn. Muscular weakness of the heart developed and for weeks the cons diton of the venerable nurse had been such as to cause grave concern among her friends.
 Her bright mind was undimmed, al- most to the last, and her ready wit and quick repartee made her sick room place of cheer to her atetndantes. With nephew. stephen Barton of Boston. and Dr. J. B. Hubbeii.
 The great regret of Miss Bartons last months was that her enreebled condition made it necessary for her to suspend 
 brought this work down only to the be- ginning of her public career as Civil war nurse. A woman whose whole train- ing had fostered habits of precision, she has left behind practically the entire correspondence of her public career, as well as other data bearing upon her in- ternational hospital work and the work which she herself began will be com pleted by other hands.
 
 Last Years in Retirement
 The last years of the great Red Cross nurse had been spent in retirement. She maintained her winter home at Glen Echo, but passed part of each summer at her birthplace in Massachusetts. She re- tired from the presidency of the Amer ican Red Cross in 1904, and since that time had had no affinatlon with the orr ganization Of which she previously had been the head since it's establishment. largely through her efforts, somewhat more than 20 years ago.
 Members of her household were reticent in discussing Miss Barton's withdrawal from the work in which she so long had been leader They sent no notification of her passing either to President Taft or the executive body of the Red Cross.
 Miss Barton will be buried where she was born, in Oxford. Mass.
 Brief funeral services will take place at the Glen Echo home Sunday afternoon. Mrs. John A. Logan will deliver a brief eulogy The Rev. pr. John Van SehaicS and the Rev. Dr. Curry, Universalist clergymen, also win oniciate. Miss Bar ton leaned toward Iiniversalism but held membership in no church,
 The funeral party will leave here Sun day evening and further services in OK ford will be conducted Monday at noon.
 Not Confined to America
 Clara Barton might properly be called the Florence Nightingale of America. Like her British prototype her works of merclfulness were not confined to her native land but were carried even into the eastern hemisphere She will be writ ten down in history the founder of the Red Cross in America, but her power full personality also made an indelible im- pression upon the international organiza- tion through her active participation in the periodical conferences at Geneva. Rome and St. Petersburg.
 Miss Barton was 10 when she first turned her attention in the direction of Red Cross affairs. The organization was establhed in 1871 in America and in Miss Barton was found it's president from that date until 1904
 Before this time she had made a name for herself by her service on battlehelds, beginning in the civil war and extending through the Franco-Prussan war. Con- gross recognized her good offices fin the first case by an appropriation of S5,00o to be disbursed by her in searching for missing men after the various great bat ties of the war.
 Becomes More Extended
 Miss Barton's work became more ex- tended with the organization of the Amer