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CLARA BARTON
See Contents.
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
This book is respectfully dedicated tothe Boys and Girls of the World; andto the Men and Women who are still Boysand Girls, in their love for humanity.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author, in the preparation of his pen pictures,begs to acknowledge with sincere thanks the courtesiesextended to him by Mr. Stephen E. Barton, the Executorof the Clara Barton Estate; by Doctor J. B.Hubbell, for many years the manager for Clara Barton;by the Oxford (Mass.) Memorial Day Committee of1917; by the Twenty-First Massachusetts RegimentG. A. R.; by many of the Army Nurses of the CivilWar; also for material assistance in data by theAmerican National Red Cross; by Mrs. J. Sewall ReedActing-President, National First Aid Association ofAmerica; by Honorable Herbert Putnam, Librarianof Congress; by General W. H. Sears for the use ofhis data in his book of 177 pages, prepared for and usedin the defense of Clara Barton before the Library Committeeof Congress, and his generous contribution ofincidents in the life of his personal friend; by HonorableFrancis Atwater for data in “The Story of MyChildhood,” by Clara Barton; by the Macmillan Co.,Publishers of the Life of Clara Barton by Percy H.Epler, the book of the best data on her life now beforethe American people; by the National First Aid Associationof America and likewise to many other associations,personal friends and admirers of America’s mostremarkable woman.
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