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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Barton, Clara, 1830-
Philanthropist; born in Oxford, Mass., in 1830; was educated in Clinton, N. Y. Her early life was devoted to teaching.
In 1854 she became a clerk in the Patent Office in Washington, resigning in 1861, and undertaking the
Clara Barton. nursing of sick and wounded soldiers of the army.
In 1864 General Butler made her head nurse of the hospitals in the Army of the James.
Later she was given charge by President Lincoln of the search organized to find missing Union soldiers, and in 1865 went to Andersonville to mark the graves of Northern soldiers who had died there.
When the Franco-Prussian War broke out (1870), she assisted in preparing military hospitals, and also aided the Red Cross Society.
In 1871, after the siege of Strasburg, she superintended, by request of the authorities, the distribution of work to the poor, and in 1872 performed a similar work in Paris.
For her services she was decorated with the Golden Cross of Baden and the Iron Cross of Ger
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bowdoin , James , 1727 -1790 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Franklin , Benjamin 1706 -1790 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Learned , Ebenezer 1721 -1801 (search)
Learned, Ebenezer 1721-1801
Military officer; born in 1721; was a captain in the French and Indian War, and hastened to Cambridge with militia on the day after the affair at Lexington.
His health failed, and he wished to retire from the service in 1776, but he was retained; and in the battle of Stillwater he commanded the centre of the American army, with the rank of brigadier-general.
His health still declining, he retired from the Army March 24, 1778.
He was then with the army at Valley Forge.
In 1795 his name was placed on the pension list.
He died in Oxford, Mass., April 1, 1801.
Olney, Richard 1835-
Lawyer; born in Oxford, Mass., Sept. 15, 1835; graduated at Brown University in 1856; admitted to the bar in 1859; member of the Massachusetts legislature; appointed United States Attorney-General by President Cleveland in 1893, and Secretary of State in 1895.