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

Tressart, Secretary to Henry VI.

Would that my soul were where I believe the soul of that woman is.

John Alespie,

Peter Maurice.

(Two of the judges that condemned Joan of Arc.)

First in the list of American great women is Clara Barton; first in her ideals; first in her achievements. In America, she ranks with Jeanne d’Arc, of France, to whom the English are now (1818) placing a monument in Manchester.

Corra Bacon-Foster, Author, Clara Barton, Humanitarian.

Joan of Arc was rather tall, well shaped, dark, with a look of composure, animation and gentleness. Guizot.

It is not true, I think, that Miss Barton has ever done anything to disentitle her to a conspicuous recognition in the Red Cross Building. Ex-Secretary of State Richard Olney (in 1917). (The eminent American selected by the “Remonstrants” in 1903, and unanimously approved by the Red Cross, to name the members of the Red Cross Proctor Committee—to investigate the “charges.”)