Clara Barton is to America what Florence Nightingale is to us. The American Civil War created her, and determined the whole course of her life. There is that which war, and nothing less, can do with a woman. It can make her, right away, what we may without irreverence call superwoman; and, having done that, it can set her to hard administrative work, to reform and organize great matters of national welfare; and it can keep her at that high level to the end of her days. Only, it must have her all to itself; she must give up everything that she was doing. It was a wonderful life. She was inspired to save lives. Providence, very wisely, chose her for its purposes, not because she was an intellectual woman but because she was a pure flame of sympathy. Not peace, but war, made her what she was. London (Eng.) Times, January 27, 1916. THE INDIVIDUAL Among the countless thousands, in her lifetime, that Miss Barton numbered as her friends, the following have been culled; and Miss Barton had not only letters thanking her for her work from the following but also enjoyed their personal friendship: _Presidents of the United States_ Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison William McKinley _Vice-Presidents of the United States_ John C. Breckinridge Hannibal Hamlin Schuyler Colfax Henry Wilson William A. Wheeler Garret A. Hobart _Secretaries of the Interior_ Zachariah Chandler Henry M. Teller John W. Noble _Secretaries of the Navy_ Benjamin F. Tracey Hillary A. Herbert John D. Long _Secretaries of the Treasury_ Salmon P. Chase George B. Boutwell William Windom Charles J. Folger _Secretaries of State_ William H. Seward Elihu B. Washburn Hamilton Fish William M. Evarts James G. Blaine T. F. Frelinghuysen Thomas F. Bayard John W. Foster Walter Q. Gresham Richard Olney John Sherman William B. Day John Hay _Secretaries of War_ Edwin M. Stanton John M. Schofield William T. Sherman Robert T. Lincoln William C. Endicott Redfield Proctor Daniel S. Lamont Russell A. Alger _Secretaries of Agriculture_ Norman J. Coleman Jeremiah M. Rusk J. Sterling Morton James Wilson _Postmasters General_ James N. Tyner John Wanamaker Wilson S. Bissell William L. Wilson _Chief Justices U. S. Supreme Court_ Salmon P. Chase Morrison R. Waite Stanley Matthews _The Army_