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 AmericaYoung, Charles Sumner
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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
Young, Charles Sumner
Barton, Clara, 1821-1912
36. Paris, Fall of the Commune; relief.
37. Organizing and managing relief for sick and wounded soldiers and
sick and destitute people in France at close of war, 1871.
RED CROSS WORK
38. With the International Red Cross Committee in Europe, Switzerland,
Germany and France. 1869–71. 1872–73, ill in London.
39. Seven years’ effort to make Red Cross known to the United States and
asking for the treaty; 1875–1882. Secured adhesion of the United States
to the Treaty of Geneva, March 1, 1882, having organized the American
National Red Cross Association the year before, and was nominated to
first presidency by President Garfield, 1882; was the President for
twenty-three years; 1881–1904.
40. Author of American Amendment authorizing Red Cross to administer
relief in time of great National disasters, which was adopted by all
treaty nations.
41. Organized First Aid Department within the Red Cross; but when she
resigned in 1904 as President, it was discontinued by her successors,
1903.
42. Organized The National First Aid Association of America, independent
of the Red Cross, similar in its scope and object to the St. John
Ambulance Association of England. Five hundred and twenty-two classes
have been organized with ten thousand students and five thousand four
hundred graduates—January 1, 1922.
43. Conceived idea of a Rest Cure and School where people should be
taught to keep well.
(The cost of distributing the funds and other contributions entrusted to
Clara Barton, as President of the American Red Cross during her
twenty-three years of administration, did not exceed two per cent. of
the amounts contributed for the twenty fields of relief in this country
and the four fields in foreign countries. Signed: Julian B. Hubbell,
General Field Agent of the Red Cross during the twenty-three years of
Clara Barton’s Presidency.)
RED CROSS FIELDS
44. Michigan Forest Fire, 1881, expended $80,000.00
45. Mississippi River Floods, 1882, expended 8,000.00
46. Mississippi Cyclone, 1883, expended 1,000.00
47. Mississippi River Floods, 1883, expended 18,000.00
48. Balkan War; relief, 1883, expended 500.00
49. Ohio and Miss. River Floods, 1884, expended 175,000.00
50. Texas Famine, 1885, expended 100,000.00
51. Charleston Earthquake, 1886, expended 85,500.00
52. Mt. Vernon Illinois Cyclone, 1886, expended 85,000.00
53. Florida Yellow Fever, 1888, expended 15,000.00
54. Johnstown Flood, 1889, expended 250,000.00
55. Russian Famine, 1892, expended 125,000.00
56. Pomeroy, Iowa, Cyclone, 1893, expended 2,700.00
57. S. C. Islands Hurricane and Tidal Waves, 1893, 65,000.00
expended
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