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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AT A DINNER IN LONDON

Lord Stratford—Will the guests kindly write on a slip of paper the name of the one, including the famous generals, who served in the Crimean War they think will be the longest remembered?

Guests—Florence Nightingale (written on every slip).

The Author.

Clara Barton is to America what Florence Nightingale is to us.

London Times.

No general that led hosts to victory on the battlefield is nearly so secure of lasting fame as is the name of Clara Barton.

Dayton (Ohio) Journal.

Miss Nightingale found herself misunderstood and lost her Governmental position—suffering much from Governmental heartlessness and neglect. England, in later Governmental acts, was more appreciative of her war heroine.... Percy H. Epler.

English women are solid and sensible, learned and self-possessed, and all the world respects them. Clara Barton.

Surely woman should bring the best she has, whatever that is, to the work of God’s world. Florence Nightingale.

A white marble cross, 20 feet high, overlooking Balaclava and seen from ships crossing the Black Sea, is known as the “Nightingale Cross,”—erected at the personal expense of Florence Nightingale in memory of the soldiers and nurses who died in the War. The Author.

© American Red Cross
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Clara Barton is to America what Florence Nightingale is to us.
London Times.
I will not speak of reward when permitted to do our Country’s work—it is what we live for.
Florence Nightingale.
Florence Nightingale, covered with the praises and honors of the world.
Clara Barton.
See pages [183]; [197].

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL ON THE MALL, LONDON
(Left to right.) The monument erected at Waterloo Place, corner of Pall Mall, London, England, to the memory of Florence Nightingale. Funds, by public subscription. Unveiled, February 24, 1915.
“To the memory of 2162 officers, non-com. officers and privates of Brigade of Guards who fell during the war with Russia in 1854–1856. Erected by their comrades.”
(In front) Statue of Sidney Herbert, associated with the life work of Florence Nightingale.