Barton
CLARA, an American phi- Y., lanthropist, born in Oxford, Mass., in 1830; was educated at Clinton, N. Y., Y., and early became a teacher, and founded at Bordentown, N. J., a free school, opening it with six pupils. In 1854 it had ing it with six pupils. In 1854 it had grown to 600, when she became a clerk in the Patent office in Washington. On the outbreak of the Civil War she became a volunteer nurse in the army hospitals and on the battle-field. In 1864 she was appointed by General Butler to the charge of the the hospitals at the front of the Army of the James. She was present at several battles, and in 1865 went to Andersonville, Ga., to identify and mark the graves of Union prisoners buried there, and was placed by President Linthere, and was placed by President Linmen of the Union armies. She lectured on her war experiences in 1866-1867. In the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870, she aided the Grand Duchess of Baden in preparing military hospitals, assisted the distribution of work to the poor of Strasburg, in 1871, after the siege, and in 1872 in Paris. She was decorated with the Golden Cross of Baden and the Iron Cross of Germany. On the organization of the American Red Cross Society in 1881, she was made its President, and in 1884 had charge of the relief of sufferers 1881, she was made its President, and in She was Special Commissioner for Foreign Exhibits at the New Orleans Exposition in 1883, represented the United States at the Red Cross Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1884, and was delegate to the International Peace Conference in Geneva the same year. In 1889 she had charge of relief of sufferers from the floods at Johnstown, Pa.; in 1892 distributed relief to the Russian famine sufferers; in 1896, personally directed relief measures at the scenes of the Armenian massacres; in 1898, at the request of President McKinley, took relief measures at the scenes of the performed field work during the war with Spain; and in 1900 undertook to BARUCH works include: "Story of the Red Cross" (1904) "Story of My Childhood" (1907). In 1904 she resigned her presidency of the Red Cross Society. Her published works include: "Story of the Red Cross" (1904); "Story of My Childhood" (1907).
Miss Barton died in 1912.
College in 1881, and from the Hartford can clergyman, born in Charlotte, Vt., in gregational ministry. He served as mis- College in 1881, and from the Hartford Theological Seminary in 1885. In the latter year he was ordained to the Congregational ministry. He served as misto 1892. In 1893 he was appointed presisionary at Harpoot, Turkey, from 1885 dent of the Euphrates College at Harknown of his books are "The Missionary nected with missionary work. The best China. He wrote much on subjects connected with missionary work. The best known of his books are "The Missionary "Educational Missions." "Human Progress Through Missions"; "Educational Missions."
American clergyman and writer, born in American clergyman and writer writer, born in Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1890. from Berea College in 1885 and from the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1890.
In 1885 he was ordained to the Congre- 1899. He served on the editorial staff of in Ohio and Boston and Chicago, until 1899. He served on the editorial staff of several religious papers and was lecturer of applied practical theology at the Chicago Theological Seminary from 1905 to 1909. From 1911 he lectured at the same a member of the editorial staff of the institution on ecclesiastical law. He was "Youth's Companion" and was an officer of many theological and missionary so- "A Hero in Homespun" cieties. He was a prolific writer on re- ligious and historical topics. Among his works (1897) "The Psalms and Their Story" (1898) "I Go A-Fishing" (1901); "Bible Classics" (1911); "Into All the World" (1911). are World" (1911). an American 1699; was called the "father of botanist, born in Chester co., Pa., March 23, 169 American botany," and founded at in America, Linnæus termed him "the greatest natural botanist in the world." etc., Made in His Travels He published "Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Diverse Productions, Animals, e a similar volume on eastern Florida from Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario," and (1766). He died at Kingsessing, near Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 22, 1777.
Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 22, 1777.
American financier and public official. He graduated from the College of the City BARUCH of New York in 1899. For many years he was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and acquired a large fortune.
In 1915 he was appointed by President Wilson a member of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense. He was also a member of the Commission on Raw Materials, Minerals and Metals, and a member of the commission in charge of purchases for the War Industries Board. He was appointed chairman of the War Industries Board in 1918. During the negotiations of the peace treaty in Paris he acted as financial adviser to the American delegates. - BARUCH, SIMON, an American physician, born at Schwersenz, Germany, in 1840. He received his early education in Germany. Removing to the United States he graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in 1862. He was surgeon in the Confederate Army until 1865, and was captured during this service. Following the war, he practiced medicine in Camden, S. C., until 1881, when he removed to New York and became consulting physician on chronic diseases. He diagnosed the first recorded case of perforating appendicitis and successfully operated on it. He was instrumental in introducing free municipal baths in New York City. For many years he was on the medical staff of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia, and was one of the most noted physicians of the United States. He was the author of "Uses of Water in Modern Medicine" (1892); "The Principles and Practice of Hydrotherapy." In 1913 a hospital was erected in his honor at Camden, S. C.