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‘Mary Baker Eddy Mentioned Them’: Clara Barton

From the November 2014 issue of The Christian Science Journal


In 1861 , at the beginning of the Civil War, Miss Clara Barton was busy working in Washington, DC, as a recording clerk for the US Patent Office. Since childhood (she was born in 1821), she had always desired to be of service to her fellow-man.