Barton, Clara
philanthropist, was born in 1830, in North Oxford, Mass. She was educated at Clinton, N. Y. She founded a free school at Bordentown, N.
J.; was clerk in the United States patent office from 1854 to 1861; devoted herself to the care of sick and wounded soldiers during the civil war; went to Europe and did hospital work in the Franco-German war; aided the Red Cross movement; assisted the poor at Paris and Strasburg; returning, she became the head of the Red Cross society, and in 1896 went to Turkey to aid the persecuted Armenians. In 1898 she went to Cuba, and had charge of distributing supplies furnished by the United States government.