ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author, in the preparation of his pen pictures, begs to acknowledge with sincere thanks the courtesies extended to him by Mr. Stephen E. Barton, the Executor of the Clara Barton Estate; by Doctor J. B. Hubbell, for many years the manager for Clara Barton; by the Oxford (Mass.) Memorial Day Committee of 1917; by the Twenty-First Massachusetts Regiment G. A. R.; by many of the Army Nurses of the Civil War; also for material assistance in data by the American National Red Cross; by Mrs. J. Sewall Reed Acting-President, National First Aid Association of America; by Honorable Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress; by General W. H. Sears for the use of his data in his book of 177 pages, prepared for and used in the defense of Clara Barton before the Library Committee of Congress, and his generous contribution of incidents in the life of his personal friend; by Honorable Francis Atwater for data in “The Story of My Childhood,” 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 before the American people; by the National First Aid Association of America and likewise to many other associations, personal friends and admirers of America’s most remarkable woman.
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.Lamartine.
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.Lamartine.
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.Lamartine.
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Lamartine.
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.Schiller.
“The fairest chaplet Victory wearsis that which mercy weaves.”I live to learn their story,Who suffered for my sake;To emulate their gloryAnd follow in their wake;Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,The noble of all ages,Whose deeds crown History’s pages,And Time’s great volume make.· · · · ·For the cause that needs assistance,For the wrongs that need resistance,For the future in the distanceAnd the good that I can do.
“The fairest chaplet Victory wearsis that which mercy weaves.”I live to learn their story,Who suffered for my sake;To emulate their gloryAnd follow in their wake;Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,The noble of all ages,Whose deeds crown History’s pages,And Time’s great volume make.· · · · ·For the cause that needs assistance,For the wrongs that need resistance,For the future in the distanceAnd the good that I can do.
“The fairest chaplet Victory wearsis that which mercy weaves.”
“The fairest chaplet Victory wears
is that which mercy weaves.”
I live to learn their story,Who suffered for my sake;To emulate their gloryAnd follow in their wake;Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,The noble of all ages,Whose deeds crown History’s pages,And Time’s great volume make.
I live to learn their story,
Who suffered for my sake;
To emulate their glory
And follow in their wake;
Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,
The noble of all ages,
Whose deeds crown History’s pages,
And Time’s great volume make.
· · · · ·
· · · · ·
For the cause that needs assistance,For the wrongs that need resistance,For the future in the distanceAnd the good that I can do.
For the cause that needs assistance,
For the wrongs that need resistance,
For the future in the distance
And the good that I can do.