Notes
Chapter 1 1. Saidee F. Riccius, "Memories of Our Aunt Clara," in WilliamConklin, ed., Clara Barton and Dansville (Dansville, N.Y.: F. A. Owen Publishing Co., 1966), pp. 542-43; and statement of Elvira Stone in "The Clara Barton Home," ChurchMessenger, May 7, 1896, clipping, CB-LC. 2. For a lengthy description of the novel, see William E. Barton, The Life of Clara Barton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922), 1:6-7. 3. Stone, in "Clara Barton Home." 4. See CB to Elvira Stone, November 29, 1898, CB-LC; Riccius, "Memories of Our Aunt Clara," in Conklin, ed., Dansville, pp. 542-43; and CB, The Story of My Childhood (Meriden, Conn.: JournalPublishingCo., 1907), p. 13. 5. "Sayings of Clara Barton," in CB, Childhood, p. 165. 6. Vital statistics for the Barton family are found in George F. Daniels, Historyof the Town of Oxford Massachusetts (Oxford: privatelypublished, 1892), p. 391; alsoCB, Childhood , p. 16. 7. Jeremiah Spofford, Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of Massachusetts (Newburyport : Charles Whipple, 1828), pp. 264-65; and Daniels, History of Oxford. 8. William E. Barton, "The Barton Family of Oxford, Massachusetts," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 85 (October 1930): 405; and W. E. Barton, Life, 1:9, 12-13. 9. Mary deWitt Freeland, The Records of Oxford Massachusetts (Albany: Munseries Sons, 1894), pp. 225, 235-36; and Daniels, History of Oxford, p. 210. 10. Daniels, History of Oxford, pp. 390-91; and untitled genealogical sketch of CB's family, n.d., AAS; also Joyce Butler Hughes to author, May 17, 1979; and Clara Barton Gilbert to author, September 9, 1979, in possession of the author. 11. CB to Bernard Vassall, November 22, 1890, AAS. 12. Untitled genealogical sketch, n.d., AAS; and Hannah Moore Barton diary in James C. North, The History of Augusta (Augusta, Maine: Clapp and North, 1870), p. 297. 375 notes 13. See CB, Childhood, pp. 20-21 (quotation p. 20); also CB to Mrs. B. C. Whitney July 18, 1901, CB-LC. 14. Daniels, History of Oxford, pp. 270-80; untitled genealogical sketch, n.d.,AAS; CB, Childhood, p. 21; P. M. Harwood to CB, February 10, 1902,CB-LC; CB to Walter Phillips, April 12, 1904, CB-LC; and CB to Harriet Austin, n.d. [March 1880], in Conk lin, ed., Dansville, p. 75. 15. CB to Stephen E. Barton, March 8, 1903,CB-LC. 16. Bill of Jacob Bone to Stephen Barton, April 3, 1839, CB-LC; and account of Stephen Barton, 1823 and 1825, Creggan and Dudley Store Records,AAS. 17. The Clara Barton birthplace in North Oxford, Mass, still contains a small chair, desk, and other pieces made by Stephen Barton. 18. Ernest Cassara, ed., Universalism in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971), pp. 53-56, 182, 247-48; CB to Jennie S. M. Vinten, October 6, 1904,CB-LC; J. B. Holmes to CB, February 20, 1899,CB-LC; Daniels, History of Oxford, p. 76; and quotation CB lecture to First Universalist Church of Minneapolis, n.d., typescript, CB-LC. 19. Daniels, History of Oxford, p.223. 20. Thomas Lamb to CB, December 12, 1876,CB-LC. 21. Untitled genealogical sketch, n.d., AAS; and CB to Hiram Moffitt, August 3, 1879, inConklin, ed., Dansvilk, pp. 109-10. 22. Antislavery petitions to the House of Representatives, Legislative Records, Record Group 46, NARS. 23. CB, address at May Festival for Women's Suffrage, n.d., CB-LC. 24- CB to Dr. Edward Foote, draft answers to "Questions of Invalids," n.d. [c. 1876], SSC. 25. Edith Riccius King, "Tales told by Ida Barton Riccius about her Grandmother Sarah Stone Barton," October 20, 1934, CB-LC. 26. Ibid. 27. Ibid. 28. CB to Moffitt, August 3, 1879,in Conklin, ed., Dansville, pp. 109-10; Bernard Barton Vassall, "Genealogy of the Barton Family," n.d., CB-LC; Edith Riccius King, "Childhood Memories," October 20, 1934, CB-LC; school papers of Dolly Barton, March 21, 1821, CB-LC; CB, Childhood, p. 17; untitled genealogical sketch, n.d.,AAS CBJ, November 2, 1869,B-DU; and quotation CB to Ida Riccius,October 2, 1906, AAS 29. CB to Foote, draft answers, n.d. [c. 1876], SSC; King, "Childhood Memories," October 20, 1934, CB-LC; statement of Joyce Barton Hughes, September 1975, notes at CBNHS. Dolly's modified rocking chair is preserved at the Clara Barton birthplace, North Oxford, Mass. 30. CB to Moffitt, August 3, 1879,inConklin, ed., DansviUe, pp. 109-10. 31. CB to Foote, draft answers, n.d. [c. 1876...
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