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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CHAMP CLARK
Clara Barton rendered her country and her kind great and noble service.—Champ Clark, of Missouri. Congress, 1893–1895; 1897–1921; Speaker of the House, 1911–1921.

REPRESENTATIVE OF UNITED STATES CONGRESS

CHARLES F. CURRY

DENVER S. CHURCH

Clara Barton, one of the great characters of history; unselfish and altruistic in her service for humanity; an American, intensely patriotic, but with an international mind and sympathy that embraced all humanity.—Charles F. Curry, of California. Congress 1913—

I regard Clara Barton one of the greatest women that ever lived.—Denver S. Church, of California. Congress, 1913–1919.

This will all sound very strange to you—you will wonder if I am “out of my mind”—let me answer—no; and if you had only a glimpse of what is put upon me to endure, you would not wonder, and in the goodness of your heart, would hold the gate open to show me a mule-track to some little mountain nook, where I might escape and wait in peace. Don’t think this is common talk with me, I have never said it to others; and yet I think they, who know me best, may mistrust that I cannot endure everything and will try in some way to relieve myself.