The American National Red Cross Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 1, January, 1906American National Red Cross
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The American National Red Cross Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 1, January, 1906
American National Red Cross
American National Red Cross -- Periodicals; Red Cross and Red Crescent -- Periodicals
_Incorporators._—Miss Mabel T. Boardman, John C. Boyd, Noble C.
Butler, George B. Davis, John W. Foster, James R. Garfield,
George Gray, Frederick H. Gillett, Hilary A. Herbert, A. C.
Kaufman, Charles Hallam Keep, Mrs. John A. Logan, Samuel Mather,
W. W. Morrow, J. Wilkes O’Neill, Louis A. Pradt, Redfield
Proctor, William H. Taft, A. W. Terrell, Lambert Tree, William
K. Van Reypen, Thomas F. Walsh, William T. Wardwell, John M.
Wilson.
_Delegates from branch societies._—George Peabody Wetmore and
John C. Pegram, of Rhode Island; William Cary Sanger and Howard
Townsend, of New York; Judge and Mrs. W. W. Morrow, of
California; John B. Henderson, jr., and Gist Blair, of the
District of Columbia; Miss Katherine P. Loring and Miss Louisa
P. Loring, of Massachusetts; Mrs. Eugene Hale and Charles E.
Littlefield, of Maine; William W. Farnam and Robert T.
Huntington, jr., of Connecticut; Henry Stockbridge and George
Norbury Mackenzie, of Maryland; Charles Bird and Miss Emily P.
Bissell, of Delaware; A. C. Kaufman, of South Carolina; Mr. and
Mrs. T. H. Newberry, of Michigan; Samuel Mather and J. G.
Schmidlapp, of Ohio; Lambert Tree, of Illinois; Mrs. W. W.
Gordon and Mrs. Samuel Spencer, of Georgia; Noble C. Butler, of
Indiana.
The central committee elected as an executive committee the following:
Hon. Robert Bacon; Brig. Gen. Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon-General, U. S.
Army; Medical Director John C. Boyd, U. S. Navy; Hon. James C.
McReynolds, James Tanner, Hon. James R. Garfield, Miss Mabel T.
Boardman.
The board of consultation consists of Brig. Gen. Robert M. O’Reilly,
Surgeon-General, U. S. Army; Surgeon-General Presley M. Rixey, U. S.
Navy; Surgeon-General Walter Wyman, U. S. Public Health and
Marine-Hospital Service.
The president of the corporation appointed the following as a finance
committee: C. C. Glover, president, the Riggs National Bank; Arthur T.
Brice, cashier, the Riggs National Bank; Charles J. Bell, president, the
American Security and Trust Company.
The American National Red Cross was reported to the Surgeon-General of
the Army the enrollment of 30 doctors and 50 trained nurses, as follows:
Connecticut branch, 1 doctor; District of Columbia branch, 1 doctor and
18 trained nurses; New York branch, 11 trained nurses; Rhode Island
branch, 28 doctors and 21 trained nurses.
As required by the charter of the corporation, there is transmitted
herewith as a part of this report a full, complete, and itemized
statement of the receipts and expenditures of the corporation, which
account has been audited by the War Department, as shown by the copy of
letter appended to said account.
It is also deemed advisable to include in this report a supplementary
statement of the receipts of the society for the period subsequent to
the date of the audited account.
Respectfully,
C. L. MAGEE,
_Secretary_.
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