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Title: Memoirs: half a century of recollections of an unusually active life; considerable space devoted to the progress of the city of Meriden and its people; enterprises organized in many places, covering varied lines of business
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Atwater, Francis, 1858-1935
Subjects: Atwater family
Publisher: (Meriden, Conn., Horton Printing Co.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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f a confidentialfriend I had always left my business to serve her andshe wanted me to know she could not have appreciatedand thought more of me had I been her own brother. I explain this so that it may be known why I tellsomething of the career of this noble woman who didso much for the world. It can only be but a fragment-ary part of her life for if all of her self-sacrificing deedswere to be told the subject could not be covered at thistime. It affords me great pleasure to say that after many,many discussions I persuaded Miss Barton to sit downone evening and commence writing her autobiography,and, although only one booklet has been published, inwhich she tells the story of her childhood, another is inmanuscript, entitled, The Story of My Girlhood. It is too bad she did not live to complete her entireautobiography, which it was intended to divide up intoand cover six periods. First, her childhood; second, hergirlhood; third, her services in the Civil war and bureau M E M O I R S 271
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272 MEMOIRS for missing soldiers; fourth, lecture field and the Franco-Prussian war; fifth, the establishment and work of theRed Cross, and sixth, the Spanish-American war. Her friends for years had importuned her to do thiswork but so much had to be done, her personal corres-pondence alone was so great, that there seemed no op-portunity to begin. She was a visitor at my home near-ly every year, staying weeks at a time. She made it apractice to come especially after each field of disaster,when she would bring her staff, and the report of thework accomplished would be made out and generallypublished under my supervision. When the Spanish-American war veterans held theirreunion in Detroit, President Roosevelt and Miss Bartonwere the guests of honor. Mrs. Atwater and I accompan-ied her. When we reached Buffalo for some reason ourcar was held up for several hours. We took a delightfulcarriage ride about the city and drove through the beaut-iful cemetery there. As we passed one particular

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