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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Everything Clara Barton did was performed in a masterly and businesslike way. New York Examiner.

Clara Barton possessed rare executive ability.

Boston (Mass.) Journal.

Clara Barton—her strong and capable hands—her clear and logical brain—her systematic methods. Boston (Mass.) Globe.

Is it not the finest kind of glory that when the American Red Cross is seen the name of Clara Barton comes to the mind like a benediction. New York (N. Y.) Sun.

The world lost in Clara Barton a great lawyer when it gained a whole-souled philanthropist. Ellen Spencer Mussey, Attorney for American Red Cross.

Had Clara Barton belonged to the other sex, she would have been a merchant prince, a great general, or a trusted political leader.

Dr. Henry W. Bellows.

Clara Barton’s herculean work was done with means that most men would scorn as too trivial to begin a work with.