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

One of the “Committee to Advise,” and

Author of “The Life of Clara Barton.”

“REFUSES TO ANTE”

If there was any lack of consideration for Clara Barton, it would do no good now to remember it.

Reverend William E. Barton,

(In 1922)

One of the “Committee to Advise,” and

Author of “The Life of Clara Barton.”

Years were to Clara Barton merely opportunities of service, not measures of life. This attitude prolonged her life and kept her young in spirit.

At ninety (1911) there was no mark of physical infirmity upon her nor was there any slightest slacking in the interest of the object for which she long had cared.