President of the National First Aid Association of America from 1905 to 1912; now, The President In Memoriam. [Sidenote: ABRAHAM LINCOLN] Born at Hodgensville, Kentucky February 12, 1809 Died at Washington, D. C. April 15, 1865 President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 [Illustration: THE RED CROSS MONUMENT Built by Stephen E. Barton, Executor of the Estate of Clara Barton in the Cemetery at North Oxford, Massachusetts. How peaceful and powerful is the grave. LORD BYRON. Her memory deserves a monument. Nashville (Tenn.) _Banner_. Her monument is the sign of the Red Cross. Sioux Falls (S. D.) _Press_. Clara Barton needs no monument, her fame is written on the world’s battlefields. Albany _Press Knickerbocker_. Congress should provide for the erection of a handsome monument to the woman who has served the nation in war and in peace. Baltimore _Sun_. The Red Cross will serve as her monument and that is her work which, we trust, will keep alive her merciful spirit through the oncoming centuries. Boston _Journal_. Clara Barton needs no monument; her name will live in the hearts of the people. Jackson (Mich.) _Patriot_. The whole civilized world owes Clara Barton more than it can ever pay in the form of tributes or material monuments. Worcester (Mass.) _Telegram_. Long after the funeral service, as we passed on the way home, pathways were full of people coming from a distance; and next day hundreds trod the worn by-path in the cemetery to the still-standing Red Cross—a path that the feet of the world will tread to the end of time. _Clara Barton In Memoriam._ ] “Clara Barton joined the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man’s search To vaster issues. So has she joined the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES