Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

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In my home here at Oxford, we would listen with intense interest to the story of her early years, to childhood and girlhood, and to scenes and events in her old home on the hillside. Clara Barton, by her shining example to our children and our children’s children, has left a rare legacy to the town of her birth.

Mrs. A. L. Joslyn—In Clara Barton In Memoriam.

Bucephalus was calmed, and subdued, by the presence of Alexander and became his favorite war-horse.

Abbott.

My arms, my arms. My horse; come quick, my horse——.

Joan of Arc.

My brother David was the “Buffalo Bill” of all that surrounding country.

Clara Barton.

My father was a lover of horses, one of the first in the vicinity to introduce blooded stock.

Clara Barton.

The first horses imported into the United States were brought to New England in 1629. Surviving the ocean voyage were one horse and seven mares. Oxen being used for all farm work, horses did not come into general use until one hundred years afterwards.

The Author.

Joan of Arc, Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale was each an expert horsewoman and each made use of her skill in horsemanship, in war.

The Author.