ed in that volume. When Barton contemplated resigning his bank
clerkship and supporting himself entirely by literature, Lamb strongly
dissuaded him. "Keep to your bank," he wrote, "and the bank will keep you."
Barton died at Woodbridge on 19th February 1849. His daughter Lucy married
Edward FitzGerald.

See _Poems and Letters of Bernard Barton, selected by Lucy Barton, with a
biographical notice by Edward FitzGerald_ (1849).

BARTON, CLARA (1821- ), American philanthropist, was born in Oxford,
Massachusetts, in 1821. She was educated at the Clinton Liberal Institute
(then in Clinton, New York). Ill-health compelled her to give up the
profession of teaching, which she had taken up when she was only sixteen
years old, and from 1854 to 1857 she was a clerk in the Patent Office at
Washington. During the Civil War she distributed large quantities of
supplies for the relief of wounded soldiers; and at its close she organized
at Washington a bureau of records to aid in the search of missing men for
whom inquiries were made. In connexion with this work, which was continued
for about four years, she identified and marked the graves of more than
twelve thousand soldiers in the National Cemetery at Andersonville,
Georgia. In 1869 she went for her health to Switzerland. Upon her arrival
at Geneva she was visited by members of the International Committee of the
Red Cross, who sought her co-operation in the work of their society. The
United States had declined to become a party to the treaty of Geneva on the
basis of which the Red Cross Society was founded, but upon the outbreak of
the Franco-Prussian War Miss Barton went with members of this society to
the seat of hostilities and assisted them in organizing their military
hospitals. In 1871 she superintended the distribution of relief to the poor
in Strassburg, and in 1872 performed a like service in Paris. For her
services she was decorated with the Iron Cross by the German emperor. In
1873 she returned to the United States, where she at once began her efforts
to effect the organization of the United States branch of the Red Cross and
to bring her country into the treaty of Geneva, which efforts were
successful in 1881-1882. She was the first president of the American Red
Cross, holding the position until 1904: and represented the United States
at the International conference held at Geneva, 1884; Karlsruhe, 1887;
Rome, 1892; Vienna, 1897; and St Petersburg, 1903. She was the author