Worcester county; a narrative history, Volume II, Part 38

Author: Nelson, John, 1866-1933
Publication date: 1934
Publisher: New York, American historical Society
Number of Pages: 534


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the Distinguished Service Cross; Hospital Apprentice Leo H. Woodcomb, United States Navy, died of influenza on September 2, 1918.


Leominster, although in 1918 a city of less than 19,000, subscribed to the various war loans more than three million dollars, a sum which was equal to nearly one-quarter of its assessed valuation. Its gifts to the war-service organizations were on the same liberal scale, and its civilian activities as dis- tinguished. More than one thousand of its men and women went into uni- formed war service, the most of the men being distributed among the 26th, Ist and 76th divisions, the Marine Corps, the Aviation Service and the Navy. Captain William Kenny received two French decorations, including the Croix de Guerre; Captain Leo K. Bernier was awarded the Croix de Guerre with bronze star; and Captains James H. Johnson and W. K. Morse, both were given the Croir de Guerre. Edward J. Lawless was awarded the Dis- tinguished Service Cross. Twenty-six from Leominster paid the supreme sacrifice ; Luigi Aquilio, killed in France, July 20, 1918; Exlone Arsenault, accidental death in France, September 16, 1918; Wilfred Brosseau, died in France November 27, 1918; Enrico Chiuri, in France; Antonio Del Bove, killed in France; Henry A. Douglas, died at Camp Devens, September 24, 1918; Charles F. Dubay, killed in France, October II, 1918; John J. Finn, killed in France, October 31, 1918; Henry W. Flibbert, missing in France ; Morse Freeman, died at Camp Quantico, October 4, 1918; Giovanni Gasbarri, killed in France, October II, 1918; Martin Glasheen, died at Camp Mitchell, October 31, 1918; Lester Horton, died at Gettysburg, September 30, 1918; John Hyland, died at Camp Devens, September 27, 1918; Clifford LeDuc, died at Fall River, Massachusetts, from results of service ; Herman J. Lauson, died at LaRochelle, France, December 10, 1919; Carl G. Locke, died at LaRochelle, France, November 10, 1918; Raymond I. Look, died at Camp Devens, September 21, 1918; William H. Lynch, died Edgewood, Maryland, October 8, 1918; Daniel O'Keefe, died at Camp Devens, September 30, 1918; Donald M. Parker, killed in France, September 15, 1918; Emery J. Pelkey, killed in France, September 26, 1918; Harold J. Petts, killed at Hampstead, Long Island, New York (Aviation Service), February 15, 1919; Edward J. Regan, killed at Chateau-Thierry, July 23, 1918; Maurice J. Smith, killed in aviation accident, Fort Worth, Texas, April 9, 1918; Sidney Earl Taylor, died at Camp Hancock, Georgia, October 14, 1918; Raffaele Villano, died in France, September 26, 1918; John S. Thuerer, killed in action; Ludger Rouillard, killed in action.


The Gardner of the World War period with a population of less than 17,000, has a record that in most features was but very slightly under that of its larger sister city. The five government loans were oversubscribed by $589,650 and totaled $3,324,350. The estimated number of its inhabitants


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who entered war service is given as one thousand. Major Seth Heywood, of the third generation to bear that name so well known in Gardner history, was one of the commissioned personnel from the city. He commanded certain "suicide companies" in the 76th Division, in France, but returned in command of the 147th Machine Gun Battalion. Twenty-one Gardner men lost their lives in their country's service : Oliva Caisse, Leo T. Burke, Gustaf Erickson, Harold B. Howe, Frederick Hall, Charles A. Larned, John P. Sokol, Carl H. Angell, Frank Bukoski, John Carlson, Jerome Cormier, David P. Guillow, Alfred Goguen, Phileas Gagne, Albin Forsberg, Joseph Hendrickson, Guy L. Hall, Alfred LaMontagne, Per Persson, Henry W. Vaughn, and Howard N. Tandy. Rena McLean, a nurse, also died.


GOLD STAR ROSTER OF WORCESTER.


ARMY.


Louis Birtz


Major Howard W. Beal


Edward H. Blanchard


Captain Walter S. Danker


Norman M. Blanchard


Captain Ralph E. Donnelly


George Blondin


Captain Starr E. Eaton


Isadore Blundy


Captain Frederick H. Lucke


Albert J. Boisvert


Major Thomas M. Lynch


Louis Bombardier


Captain Willard Smith


Fred Bonyea


Lieutenant Harold G. Allen


George A. Bourget


Lieutenant Laurence S. Ayer


Archie F. Bray


Lieutenant Norman R. Baldwin


Victor Brigham


Lieutenant Thomas C. Carver


Axel G. Broden


Lieutenant Edwin A. Daly


Harold Brown


Lieutenant William P. Fitzgerald


Leinster Brown


Lieutenant Lawrence J. Flaherty


Harry Alfred Brown


Lieutenant Jens H. Frostholm


John F. Brosnihan


Lieutenant Warren T. Hobbs


Frank C. Brough


Lieutenant Arthur W. Horne


Ralph A. Bruneau


Lieutenant H. Rockwood Knight


George Bullion


Lieutenant Donald W. Libby


John Bullock


Lieutenant William H. Montgomery


James Burke


Lieutenant Brayton Nichols


Ernest P. Carlson


Lieutenant Henry A. O'Leary


Corporal Henry F. Caron


Lieutenant Horace Wyman


Clarence H. Carr


Carl L. Abrahamson


Frank A. Carrigan


Dominick Edward Adams


Eugene S. Carter


Earl Q. Adams


Robert Cassie


William P. Allison


Richard Castham


Frank J. Anderson


Corporal Ralph L. Chabot


Sergeant John C. Anderson


Frederick W. Chaplin


Floyd H. Andrews


William Chapman


Claude H. Anson


Peter Clemenzi Louis Cody


Edward R. Askew


Arthur D. Condren


Exaid J. Barrett


James E. Conlon


Roy H. Bates


Sergeant Ralph Louis Cook


William B. Bates G. Barry


William J. Cooney


Roy D. Beachler


George D. Corey


Sergeant James M. Beatty


Corporal Arthur C. Corsen


George L. Benoit Carl G. Bergman


Charles Allen Creed


Francis B. Bertrand


Hugh M. Degnan


Andrea Dell'Orco


Henry W. Billings


Sergeant Jerome J. Courtney


Isadore W. Baker


Walter F. Coonan


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Alfred J. Deemers Roy E. Deragon John E. Donnelly Edward Donohue Joseph Donvinto John P. Dorsey Patrick W. Doyle


Oscar A. Johnson


Willard Johnson Albert L. Johnston


Forest D. Jones


John J. Kane


Maxwell B. Katz


Corporal Walter T. Drohan


Walter P. Kelley


Leon A. Dumas


Herman Kaskinen


Joseph H. Dunn


Arthur Kemplin Clarence D. Kendrick


Corporal George E. Eklund


Norman L. Kennedy


Charles R. Ellis


Austin R. Kinney


Stephen Klukynas


Sergeant Fife V. Ellis Henry A. Emmons Earle R. Estabrook


Ernest F. Laforest


John F. Fahey


Leon Laflamme


John L. Finneran


Albert J. Lalime


Thomas F. Flannagan


Sergeant Harold C. Lamb


Stannis C. Flibbert


Sergeant Henry L. Lamb


Walter J. Foley


Peter Lankivan


Corporal William J. Forget


William L. Larmour


Charles G. French


Corporal Leander T. Larsen


Raymond J. Fortier


John F. Lawson


Joseph Fortin James B. Friel Frank H. Frost


Philip Lederer


Sergeant Nils H. E. Frostholm


Carl Wilhelm Lemberg


Corporal Leroy W. Gardner


Roscoe F. Leonard


Gardner B. Gaskill


William Leonard


Corporal Arthur D. Gaumond


Albert J. Lewis


Corporal Raymond C. Gilbert


John Liberir


C. Goddard


Almon Kemp Lincoln


Sergeant William Goodney


Carl J. Lindberg


Joseph W. Grabonski


Oscar W. Linsey


Arthur E. Green


Charles R. Livermore


Henry F. Green


John F. Lonergan


Wendell A. Harmon


Enos A. Harpell


Carl Wesley Harris


George A. Lumb


Albert Hart


Louis A. Lundin


Carl A. Lydgman


Carl W. Mabie


Sotereas M. Makos


Avak Manzovian


Noel Marc Aurele


Daniel M. P. Healy


George F. McCabe


Frank O. Hearn


John T. McCarthy


William Hebenstreit


Sergeant Francis J. McGrail


Joseph J. McGrath


Charles E. Henry Hugh J. Hickey


William C. McHugh


Sergeant Robert H. Hogg


Sergeant Harry J. McKeeby


Harry C. Hopkins


Charles Mclaughlin


Raymond A. Hulbert


William J. McTague


Corporal Patrick J. Hurley Morris Jaffe Alfred Johnson


Arthur W. Johnson


Corporal Robert A. Miller Corporal Carl Miller


Franz W. Miller


Corporal Carl P. Milliken


George N. Minor


Edwin A. Moore


George A .. Johnson


Nicholas Malooly Carmine Meringola


Sergeant Thomas Migauckas, Jr.


Charles J. Johnson David W. Johnson Elmer F. Johnson Francis L. Johnson


Earl E. Lovejoy


George N. Lowry


J. Albert Harvey


Leonard W. Haskins


Frank J. Hauser


John E. Hawkins


Corporal Louis R. Heal


Paul H. Lawless


Corporal Gibson B. Leach


A. La Freniere


Frank L. Edwards


Sergeant Cornelius F. Kelley


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Charles J. Sullivan Jeremiah J. Sullivan John L. Sullivan Corporal Carl J. Sund


Albert J. Superneault Edward Superneault


Francis L. Sweeney


Peter D. Tamulevich


Ralph Thresher William F. Tierney


Aaron Torosian


Vincent Tovisio


Corporal John J. Travers


Henry P. Turcotte


Ciro Ursoleo


Corporal Anson M. Vibbert


Wilfred J. Vincent


Frank G. Warner


Corporal Frank S. Webb


Morris S. Wells


Corporal Homer J. Wheaton


Herbert O. Whitaker


James E. Whitesell


Philip F. Whittle


John Whittles


Cecil R. Williams


Ralph G. Williams


William H. Witt


Joseph Wolfe


Joseph Wolkowski


Joseph Wozalinski


Waldo N. Young


Corporal Alphonsus T. Wickham


Aurelia Wyman


NAVY.


Albert S. Abrahamson


Amede J. Amiot


Lieutenant John W. Bennett


Charles E. Bourke


A. F. Bridges


Walter F. Broadbent


Rollin M. Cannon


Franklin S. Clark


Lieutenant Thomas Courtney


Charles J. Graves


Albert L. Johnson


David W. Johnson Edward P. Lind


James A. McGourty


Jacob Simon


Samuel E. Midgeley Gordon Mixter Corporal J. Willard Moran


Walter R. Roche Arthur J. Rourke


Lieutenant Charles R. Seed


Corporal Herbert St. George


Arthur A. St. Germaine


John W. Viner


Lieutenant Frederick Wahlstrom


Herbert Watson Henry C. Weiss


Michael F. Moore Arnold H. Morgan James F. Morgan Andrew Moynihan James E. Mulvehill Tobey Najemy Michael J. Nee August M. Nelson Olive W. Norcross George H. Norsigian


Claus Nygren Edward T. O'Connor Patrick J. O'Connor


Claude I. Parrott Homer E. Payette


Irving Y. Pengalley


Joseph L. Perron


William A. Peterson


Sergeant Ernest Picard


Albert F. Ploetz Emil R. Ploetz


Harry J. Posner Edward F. Power Patrick J. Power


Francesco Protono


Andrew Ran Walter A. Rand Harold W. Randall


Payton C. Randolph


Sergeant John T. Rice


Corporal Edward G. Richards


Corporal Ralph S. Richards


William Roberts


William Rome, Jr. Raymond F. Ronayne


Vitagliano Rosso


Corporal Harry Rosefsky


Edward A. Roy George A. Roy


John J. Ryan


Corporal Gilbert Y. Sandy Fred H. Sargent Ralph W. Sargent


Antonio Schiavone


Corporal Thomas J. Shannon


James F. M. Sheeran


Sergeant George G. Shepard


William F. Shepard


Romeo Napoleon Siguin Corporal Harold E. Simmons


John G. Sklutas Charles Oscar Smith Harvey Smith Roy E. Smith


Wilbur Smithson


Theodore Southwick Samuel J. Starr Edward Steele


Raymond St. George


Wilfred C. St. Germain


Charles M. Streeter


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WORLD WAR RECORD OF WORCESTER COUNTY. FROM RECORDS OF ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF MASSACHUSETTS.


Population


Number of Men in Service


Killed, Missing or Died of Disease


Ashburnham


2,059


91


5


Athol


9,783


532


21


Auburn


3,281


128


2


Barre


3,476


II6


7


Berlin


865


39


2


*Blackstone


5,689


147


6


Bolton


768


30


I


Boylston


783


25


0


Brookfield


2,059


63


2


Charlton


2,213


61


I


Clinton


13,192


657


17


Dana


712


21


I


Douglas


2,179


57


I


Dudley


4,373


72


6


+East Brookfield


33


O


Fitchburg


39,656


2,025


66


Gardner


16,376


675


22


Grafton


6,250


247


IO


Hardwick


3,596


108


8


Harvard


1,104


49


I


Holden


2,514


IIO


5


Hopedale


2,663


II2


7


Hubbardston


1,084


26


I


Lancaster


2,585


89


6


Leicester


3,322


170


4


Leominster


17,646


887


24


Lunenburg


1,610


47


3


Mendon


933


24


I


Milford


13,684


622


21


Millbury


5,295


219


7


įMillville


New Braintree


453


5


O


North Brookfield


2,947


107


6


Northboro


1,797


59


2


Northbridge


9,254


442


Oakham


527


9


Oxford


3,476


142


Paxton


471


14


I


Petersham


727


21


2


Phillipston


390


4


O


Princeton


800


25


I


Royalston


862


16


I


Rutland


,895


40


2


Shrewsbury


2,794


107


5


Southboro


1,898


98


I


Southbridge


14,217


651


24


Spencer


5,994


241


II


Sterling


1,400


52


2


Sturbridge


1,618


55


I


Sutton


2,829


62


0


Templeton


4,081


I33


8


Upton


2,036


64


I


Uxbridge


4,921


195


8


Warren


4,268


I 39


2


Webster


... 12,565


549


21


123


0


16


I


5


Town


1915


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WORLD WAR RECORD OF WORCESTER COUNTY. FROM RECORDS OF ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF MASSACHUSETTS.


Town


Population 1915


Number of Men in Service


Killed, Missing or Died of Disease


West Boylston


1,318


56


2


West Brookfield


1,288


30


0


Westboro


5,925


I90


5


Westminster


1,594


81


2


Winchendon


5,908


255


14


Worcester


162,697


9,30I


283


Totals


430,703


29,748


585


* Includes Millville, which was not set off as a separate town until May 1, 1916. Population of that part of Blackstone known as Millville, April 1, 1915, was 2,010.


# No record.


¿ Included in Blackstone record.


CHAPTER LIII


Great Men and Women of Worcester County


Out of Worcester County have come many men and women whose des- tinies have placed them among the Great Americans. Thousands of others, in the three centuries which have passed since the Nipmuck Country of Massachusetts was first settled, have given distinguished service to their Commonwealth and Nation, and have left behind them noteworthy contribu- tions to the progress of their country and to civilization. The number of these is so great as to make it impossible to tell their individual stories.


The purpose of this section of our book is to name and sketch the lives of those who may be said to have gained places in Worcester County's Hall of Fame, and, in many cases, among the American immortals. Brought together, they constitute a remarkable group, unique in its range of genius and effort. Many of the names are household words, and will remain such for many generations to come. Mingled in deeds done and beneficence bestowed is much color of romance, not only in the stirring lives of pioneer and soldier and sailor, but in the infinite bigness of what Worcester County men and women have done to relieve their fellowmen of suffering, and to ease their burdens and add to their happiness.


Consider these three: Morton, the man who by the discovery of anaes- thesia banished pain everywhere the surgeon must mend the human body ; Clara Barton, the woman who brought organized care to the wounded of the battlefield and hospital, and, founding the American Red Cross, organized relief, in peace time as well as in war, to the victims of disaster the world over ; and that other woman, Dorothea Dix, whose exalted zeal and eloquence gave, for the first time in all history, humane treatment to the insane.


Consider, too, three Worcester County farmer boys. Eli Whitney, who gave the world the cotton gin which made quickly possible the establishment of the great cotton manufacturing industry of the North, while it created the slave empire of the South. Elias Howe gave the women of the world the


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precious boon of the sewing machine. The genius and infinite patience of Luther Burbank, as a breeder of plant life gave as his contribution prodigal additions to the flowers and fruits and vegetables which nature provided for man.


In our list are great pioneers, soldiers and sailors, patriots, and statesmen, scientists and inventors, historians, novelists, sculptors, jurists, practical reformers and philanthropists, educators, founders of great colleges and a university, and other institutions of intellectual culture and of art. The sum total of their accomplishments is an inspiring thought. In the sketches of their lives are contained incidents of county history which might not be else- where.


Several great names do not appear in this biographical section. One has an earlier chapter devoted to his career-General Rufus Putnam, founder of the Marietta Settlement of Ohio. The career of Alvah Crocker of Fitch- burg, railroad builder and a principal founder of the paper manufacturing industry of the north county is sketched in the chapters on transportation. The life of Abby Kelly Foster is told in the chapter of events which cul- minated in the War of the Rebellion.


John S. C. Abbott, Historian, 1805-1877-John Stevens Cabot Abbott, who ranks as one of America's great mid-nineteenth century historians, was a native of Brunswick, Maine, but he may be considered eligible to a place in Worcester County's rôle of fame, for it was in the five years, from 1829 to 1834, when he was pastor of the Central Calvinist Church, Worcester, that he conceived the idea of a life's work as a historian and entered upon a literary career. He was a member of the famous Bowdoin class of 1825, which included Longfellow and Hawthorne. His brother, Rev. Jacob Abbott, was the author of the famous "Rollo" books for boys.


His first published works were along religious lines, including The Mother at Home, which had large sales. He became widely known as a historian with the publication of The History of Napoleon Bonaparte, which was the first life of the great Frenchman printed in English which treated the subject in an unbiased, judicial manner. In fact, as a great admirer of Napoleon, it is written that he "ascribed to him not only capacities of the highest order, but more virtues and fewer faults than are often found in a human being." As other English writers had pictured Napoleon rather as a monster, Abbott's history attracted great attention among scholars and was widely read by the general public.


His other larger works are Kings and Queens; or Life in the Palace; The French Revolution of 1789; Napoleon at St. Helena; The History of Napoleon III; History of the Civil War in America; Romance of Spanish


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History; The History of Frederick the Second of Prussia; The History of Christianity; and American Pioneers and Patriots.


Herbert Adams, Sculptor, 1858-Herbert Adams, distinguished sculptor, was born in Concord, Vermont, and was educated in the public schools of Fitchburg, at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the Massachusetts Normal Art School, and finally as a pupil of Mercie in Paris. He was awarded the honorary degree of Master of Arts by Yale University in 1916 and by Tufts College in 1927. He has had a notable career as a sculptor and has received awards for his work at the expositions of Chicago, Paris, St. Louis and San Francisco. He was awarded the medal of honor of the Archi- tectural League in 1915, and the prize of the National Academy in 1916. The city of Fitchburg has a fine example of his art in the beautiful, and impres- sive bronze World War Memorial.


He was a member of the United States Commission on Fine Arts of the National Academy, United States, in 1899; is an ex-president of the National Academy of Design; a trustee of the American Academy of Arts and Let- ters ; and a member of the National Sculpture Society, American Federation of Arts, Architectural League of New York, and is a trustee of the American Academy in Rome.


Charles Allen, Jurist, 1797-1869-Charles Allen, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, ardent and powerful anti-slavery man, esteemed in his day as one of the ablest men New England had produced, was born in Worcester, great-grandson of Samuel Adams, father of Samuel Adams the Revolutionary patriot. He entered Yale, but did not graduate, studied law, and became a leader of the Massachusetts bar. His part in the disruption of the Whig party and the foundation of the Free Soil, after- ward the Republican party, has been related in the chapter on the period preceding the Civil War. He was offered the office of Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, but was compelled to decline it because of his health. Two stories are related of him which bespeak the man.


When he was a justice of the old court of Common Pleas the celebrated Wyman case was tried before him, with Daniel Webster as counsel for the defense, and judge and the great barrister clashed. As Senator Hoar told the incident : "The story is variously related, even by persons who were present on the occasion. The commonly accepted version, and one which is doubtless in substance correct, is that Mr. Webster was quite uneasy under the power- ful and luminous charge of the judge, and rose once or twice to call the judge's attention to what he supposed to be a mistake of fact or law. After one or two interruptions of this sort, Mr. Webster rising again, the judge


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said : 'Mr. Webster, I cannot suffer myself to be interrupted now.' To which Mr. Webster replied: 'I cannot suffer my client's case to be mis- represented.' To which the judge replied: 'Sit down, sir.' The charge pro- ceeded without further interruption, and the jury was sent to their room. Judge Allen then turned to Mr. Webster and said : 'Mr. Webster, -. ' Where- upon Mr. Webster rose with all the grace and courtesy of manner of which, when he chose, he was master, and said: 'Will your Honor pardon me a moment ?' and proceeded to make a handsome apology and express regret at the occurrence."


When Charles Allen was Chief Justice of the Superior Court, a fugitive slave who had escaped on a New Orleans ship was seized by his master and forced back into slavery. The people of Boston expressed such indignation that the captain of the vessel was arrested and brought before Judge Allen, and the anti-slavery public was jubilant that so strong an anti-slavery justice was to hear the case. The question was whether the act of seizure of the slave was within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth. It was written of Judge Allen : "He taught the whole people of the country that even a slave- catcher could not fail in his reliance on the justice of Massachusetts ; and that her indignation against what she deemed the worst of outrages, the kidnap- ping of a human being, could not swerve her from her obedience to law." The man was acquitted on the ground that the offense was not committed within Suffolk County.


Jane (Goodwin) Austen, Novelist, 1831-1894-Jane (Goodwin) Aus- ten, native of Worcester, was one of the best known and most widely read novelists of the period 1860-92, embraced by the publication of her books. Her girlhood in Worcester was in a literary atmosphere rarely equalled any- where in so small a community, created by men such as Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, George Bancroft, Governor, after- wards United States Senator, John Davis, John S. C. Abbott, and Elihu Bur- ritt, the "Learned Blacksmith."


The girl was a lineal descendant of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony, and she studied and absorbed the traditions and romance of the colony. Encouraged by the sympathy of her father, Isaac Goodwin, a lawyer, and her brother, John A. Goodwin, historian of Plymouth, she began to write very early in her life, and her work was accepted by various periodicals, and most of her stories were first published in serial form.


Her initial success was Dora Darling, which was followed by Outpost, Tailor Boy and Moon Fold. Her first books were published under her maiden name of Jane Goodwin, but after her marriage to Loring H. Austin of Boston, she wrote under her married name, and as Jane Austin, namesake


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of the English Jane Austen of an earlier generation, she became known far and wide. The anthologies list the best known books of her earlier period as Fairy Dreams (1860) ; Cypher, a Romance (1869) ; The Shadow of Moloch Mountain (1870) ; Mrs. Beauchamp Brown, No Name Series (1880) ; A Nameless Nobleman (1882) ; Desmond Hundred Round Robin Series (1882); and Nantucket Scraps (1883). Jane Austin's chief fame came from her historical novels of the Plymouth Colony, where the interest of her girlhood was exhibited. These are Standish of Standish (1887) ; Dr. Le Baron and His daughters (1890) ; Betty Alden (1891) ; and David Alden's Daughter (1892).


Clara Barton, "Angel of the Battlefield," Founder of American Red Cross, 1821-1912-Clara Barton, "Angel of the Battlefield," as she was known in the Civil War by Union and Confederate soldiers alike, and founder of the American Red Cross, was born in Oxford, the daughter of Stephen Barton, who under Mad Anthony Wayne had fought the Indians when Michigan was the extreme western frontier of the United States. Her young womanhood was devoted to school teaching, and she might have rounded out her useful life in that profession had her health not broken down, compelling her to seek a change. One might well believe that Provi- dence worked to a predestined end by inflicting physical infirmity upon this great woman. Because of this breakdown she was in Washington, ready to meet her destiny and do for the soldiers of the rebellion what Florence Nightingale, "The Lady of the Crimea," did for the English wounded in the hospitals of Scutari. And again, when the war was ended, it was another physical collapse which sent her to Europe, there to receive the inspiration which led to the formation of the American Red Cross.


She went to Washington from her school at Bordentown, New Jersey, in 1854, and received an appointment as clerk in the Patent Office. War clouds were beginning to gather even then. She heard Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address. Fort Sumter was fired upon, and the call went forth for seventy-five thousand men. The first regiments from Massachusetts arrived at the capital and Clara Barton was eager to help them. She sent an advertisement to the Worcester Spy, asking for supplies and money and stating that she would receive all shipments and dispense them personally. The response was prompt and generous. Her home became a distributing agency.


She was not contented with what she was accomplishing for the cause. She volunteered as a nurse in the Washington hospitals. Many of the wounded brought back after the first fighting, had been so long neglected that there was no hope for them and all had suffered terribly from the pain of




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