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

CHARLES SUMNER YOUNG

The only picture of myself that I have cared anything about at all is the one taken at the time of the Civil War (1865), in which I am represented in the uniform of a nurse. If my friends had let me have my way, I would never have had another picture taken. ([Frontispiece])

Clara Barton.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Babyhood Impressions	[21]
II	School—Childish Memories—Military	[24]
III	On Her Favorite Black Horse	[28]
IV	Phrenology—Read Her Characteristics—Basis of Friendship	[30]
V	“Spontaneous Combustion” Laid to Clara Barton	[34]
VI	Christmas—a Christmas Carol	[36]
VII	“Button”—“Billy”—Clara Barton Ownership	[38]
VIII	Pauper Schools; from Six to Six Hundred	[43]
IX	Child Love—Joe and Charlie—Appreciation	[45]
X	Temperance—Clara Barton and the Hired Man—Stranger than Fiction	[48]
XI	Looking for a Job—Equal Suffrage	[51]
XII	Credulous Ox—Innocent Child—Clara Barton, a Vegetarian	[55]
XIII	Fell Dead on the Ground beside Her	[57]
XIV	Wickedness of War—Settles no Disputes	[59]
XV	Her Wardrobe in a Handkerchief—The Battle Scene	[63]
XVI	The Bravery of Women—Clara Barton’s Bravest Act	[66]
XVII	Yes, and Got Euchred	[69]
XVIII	To Dream of Home and Mother	[71]
XIX	Tribute of Love and Devotion	[74]
XX	Cheering Words—Always Ready—Wears a Smile	[76]
XXI	Horrible Deed—Leads American Navy—Angel of Mercy	[80]
XXII	Confederates and Federals alike Treated	[86]
XXIII	The Enemy, Starving—Tact—The White Ox	[89]
XXIV	Bullethole—Amputated Limbs Like Cordwood—God Gives Strength	[91]
XXV	Fearless of Bullets and Kicking Mules	[95]
XXVI	His Comfort, not Hers; His Life, not Hers	[97]
XXVII	Does not Need any Advice	[99]
XXVIII	Had but a Few Moments to Live	[102]
XXIX	Enlisted Men First—The Colonel’s Life Saved	[104]
XXX	You’re Right, Madam—Good Day	[107]
XXXI	Bleeding to Death—His Headless Body—Women in the War	[109]
XXXII	Timid Child—Timid Woman	[112]
XXXIII	Ez Ef We Wuz White Folks	[115]
XXXIV	In Her Dreams—Again in Battle	[117]
XXXV	Four Famous Women	[120]
XXXVI	Simplicity of Childhood—Pet Wasps—Pet Cats—Loved Life—Domestic	[122]
XXXVII	Clara Barton in the Literary Field	[128]
XXXVIII	The Art of Dressing—Clara Barton’s Individuality	[133]
XXXIX	The Jewelled Hand and the Hard Hand Meet	[138]
XL	Clara Barton and the Emperor	[140]
XLI	America—Scarlet and Gold—Europe	[143]
XLII	Three Cheers—Wild Scenes in Boston—Tiger!! No, Sweetheart	[147]
XLIII	The Last Reception—Her Autograph—The Boys in Gray	[150]
XLIV	Open House—Cost of Fame, Self-Sacrifice—Best in Woman	[152]
XLV	Kneeled Before Her and Kissed Her Hand	[158]
XLVI	I Never Get Tired—Eating the Least of My Troubles	[160]
XLVII	Royalty Under a Quaker Bonnet	[163]
XLVIII	Still Stamping on Me—Personally Unharmed	[165]
XLIX	At the Memorial—“The Flags of all Nations”—A Good Time	[167]
L	Clara Barton Kept a Diary	[171]
LI	Nursing a Fine Art—Over the Washtub	[176]
LII	Immortal Words—A Million Thanks	[178]
LIII	The Pansy Pin—For Thoughts	[180]
LIV	Clara Barton Pays Respects to Florence Nightingale	[182]
LV	The Passing of Years—Right Habits of Life	[184]
LVI	She Won His Heart	[186]
LVII	You Buy It for Him	[188]
LVIII	Or God Wouldn’t Have Made Them	[190]
LIX	Clara Barton—Mary Baker Eddy	[192]
LX	Like Tolstoi She Lived the Simple Life	[194]
LXI	Clara Barton—Florence Nightingale	[196]
LXII	The General Has Money—I Am His Reconcentrado	[201]
LXIII	Abraham Lincoln’s Son	[204]
LXIV	The Butcher Didn’t Get It	[207]
LXV	The Kind of Girls that Needed Help	[209]
LXVI	A Romance of Two Continents	[211]
LXVII	The Little Monument—For all Eternity	[215]
LXVIII	Story of Baba—Dream of a White Horse—Life’s Woes	[218]
LXIX	People, Like Jack Rabbits—No “Show-Woman”	[223]
LXX	Clara Barton’s Heart Secret—$10,000 in “Gold Dust”	[227]
LXXI	Fell on Their Knees before “Mis’ Red Cross”	[231]
LXXII	Clara Barton’s Tribute to Cuba	[233]
LXXIII	At the Birthplace of Napoleon—The Corsican Bandit	[235]
LXXIV	When Cares Grow Heavy and Pleasures Light	[238]
LXXV	A Red Cross Red Letter Day	[240]
LXXVI	Patriotic Women of America Self-Sacrificing	[242]
LXXVII	Opposition—The American Red Cross “Complete Victory”	[246]
LXXVIII	Greetings—National First Aid Association of America	[255]
LXXIX	Humanitarianism, Unparalleled in All History	[264]
LXXX	Clara Barton’s Prayer Answered	[268]
LXXXI	Not the Value of a Postage Stamp	[272]
LXXXII	Honorary Presidency for Life—Proposed Annuity	[275]
LXXXIII	Clara Barton’s Resignation	[279]
LXXXIV	No Red Cross Controversy	[285]
LXXXV	International Red Cross—American Red Cross—American Amendment	[287]
LXXXVI	Blackmail Alleged—“Congressional Investigation”—Truth of History	[294]
LXXXVII	Of Graves, of Worms, of Epitaphs	[332]
LXXXVIII	Turkey—Statesmanship of Philanthropy—Armenia	[340]
LXXXIX	Treason—Lincoln Assassinated—Grant Protects Clara Barton	[349]
XC	President McKinley Sends Clara Barton to Cuba	[352]
XCI	In Details—Clara Barton, a Business Manager—World’s Record	[355]
XCII	Superintendent of Woman’s Prison	[363]
XCIII	Greatness—An Immortal American Destiny—Immortality	[365]
XCIV	What Was Her Religion?	[369]
XCV	One Day with Clara Barton	[373]
XCVI	The Personal Correspondence—Clara Barton’s Proposed Self-Expatriation	[377]
XCVII	Closing Incidents—The Biography—Other Correspondence	[392]
XCVIII	A Record History at the Funeral	[398]
XCIX	Clara Barton’s Last Ride	[401]
C	Chronology of the Leading Achievements in the Life of Clara Barton	[403]
CI	The Press and the Individual	[411]
CII	The Clara Barton Centenary—Memorial Address, 1921	[415]
CIII	Clara Barton—Memorial Day Address, 1917	[422]

I want the last picture of the friends I love to show them in their strength, and at their best, not after time and age shall have robbed them of all characteristic features which represented them in actual life.—Clara Barton, from her diary of December 13, 1910.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Clara Barton		[Frontispiece]
		FACING PAGE
Charles Sumner Young		[12]
The Universalist Church, Main Street, Oxford, Massachusetts		[35]
Summer Home of Clara Barton, Oxford, Massachusetts		[35]
Birthplace of Clara Barton, Near Oxford, Massachusetts		[42]
Officers of the W. N. M. A. Present at the Dedication of the Clara Barton Memorial on October 12, 1921		[42]
Historic in Education, Bordentown, N. J.		[53]
	The School House
	The Desk Used by Clara Barton
	The Clara Barton Museum
Representative Temperance Advocates		[56]
	Annie Wittenmeyer
	John B. Gough
	Mary Stewart Powers
	Frances Willard
Representative Suffrage Leaders		[69]
	Susan B. Anthony
	Carrie Chapman Catt
	Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
Warren G. Harding		[72]
Representatives Respectively of Three Wars		[83]
	William T. Sampson
	Isaac B. Sherwood
	Joseph Taggart
Representative of Two Wars		[90]
	Mathew C. Butler
	Joseph Wheeler
	Harrison Gray Otis
Leonard Wood		[117]
The Red Cross Home of Clara Barton, Glen Echo, Maryland		[120]
Representative of the Literary World		[133]
	Ida M. Tarbell
	Lucy Larcrom
	Elbert Hubbard
	Alice Hubbard
W. R. Shafter		[136]
The Royalty of Germany		[149]
	Empress Augusta
	Emperor William I
	Luise, The Grand Duchess of Baden
	Friederich, The Grand Duke of Baden
The Royalty of Russia		[152]
	Nicholas II, The Czar of Russia
	Alexandra Feodorowna, The Czarina of Russia
	Maria Feodorowna, The Empress Dowager
Florence Nightingale		between pages [182] and 183
Florence Nightingale Memorial on the Mall, London		between pages [182] and 183
Co-Workers with Clara Barton		[195]
	Count Lyof Nikolayevitch Tolstoi
	Dr. Henry W. Bellows
	Dr. Julian B. Hubbell
Woodrow Wilson		[202]
Sentiment in History		[213]
	The Clara Barton Baby Cradle
	The Pet Jersey Calf
	Colony of Constantinople Dogs
Historic and Sentimental		[216]
	Baba, Clara Barton’s Pet Horse
	The Baba Tree and William H. Lewis
The Clara Barton Monument		[229]
Mario G. Menocal		[232]
William McKinley		[241]
James A. Garfield		between pages [246] and 247
Chester A. Arthur		between pages [246] and 247
The International Committee of the Red Cross (in 1898)		[252]
Clara Barton		[275]
Harriette L. Reed		[275]
Mrs. John A. Logan		[282]
Ambassador Bakhmeteff		[289]
Elutheros Venizelos		[293]
Grover Cleveland		[296]
Five Photographs of Clara Barton		[300]
Attorneys for the American Red Cross Society Under the Presidency of Clara Barton		[321]
	Richard Olney
	Lewis A. Stebbins
	William H. Sears
Badges, Medals, Decorations		between pages [326] and 327
Dorence Atwater		[332]
Dedication of Memorial to Clara Barton at Andersonville, Georgia		[332]
Cemetery at Andersonville, Georgia		[339]
Dr. G. Pasdermadjian		between pages [342] and 343
I. H. R. Prince Guy De Lusignan		between pages [342] and 343
Abdul-Hamid		[346]
William R. Day		[355]
Her Business Record		between pages [358] and 359
	Benjamin F. Butler
	Francis Atwater
	Leonard F. Ross
Redfield Proctor		between pages [358] and 359
The American Red Cross Building, Washington, D. C.		[362]
Henry Breckenridge		[369]
Representative of United States Congress		[380]
	Champ Clark
	Charles F. Curry
	Denver S. Church
Reunion of 21st Massachusetts Regimen		between pages [390] and 391
The Memorial Tree Planting to the Memory of Clara Barton, 1922		between pages [406] and 407
	Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, with the first shovel of dirt
	Mrs. John A. Logan, with second shovel of dirt
	The Clara Barton Oak
	Miss Carrie Harrison, planting the Clara Barton Rose
	Charles Sumner Young, while delivering the memorial address
William Howard Taft		[417]
The Inside of Memorial Building, Oxford, Massachusetts		between pages [422] and 423
The Oxford, Massachusetts, Memorial Building		between pages [422] and 423
Representative Massachusetts Statesmen		[428]
	Henry Wilson
	Charles Sumner
	George F. Hoar
United States Senators Who Saw the Work of Clara Barton		[430]
	Charles E. Townsend
	Jacob H. Gallinger
	H. D. Money
Nelson A. Miles		[433]
John J. Pershing		[435]
Abraham Lincoln		[442]
The Red Cross Monument		[444]
The embossed cut on the front cover is a reproduction of a bronze bust by Mrs. Otto Heideman.

CLARA BARTON

There is a kind of character in thy life,