Clara Barton in Dansville

secondary literature · 2016

type:secondary literature

year:2016

citation:Dansville Public Library. "Clara Barton in Dansville." Local history page, dansville.lib.ny.us, archived by the Wayback Machine 25 December 2016: web.archive.org/web/20161225040937/http://www.dansville.lib.ny.us/clara.html.

LINK

https://web.archive.org/web/20161225040937/http://www.dansville.lib.ny.us/clara.html

SUMMARY

Local public-library institutional history page on Clara Barton's residence in Dansville, fetched via Wayback Machine snapshot on 2026-08-04. States that in 1873 Barton, "once again exhausted and in need of rest," was "encouraged by friends to seek the care of Dr. James Caleb Jackson, founder of Our Home On the Hillside" -- so the water cure and health institute became a home in Dansville to America's Angel of the Battlefield, the nickname Barton earned for her Civil War relief work. States she maintained a residence in Dansville for ten years, 1876 to 1886, and that the first local chapter of the American Red Cross was chartered there on 22 August 1881 with support from "members of the Jackson family, proprietors of the sanatorium."

NOTES

Source for the case’s notable-patient material: Clara Barton’s 1873 arrival at Our Home on the Hillside for exhaustion, her decade-long residence in Dansville, and the local Jackson family’s support for her founding of the American Red Cross’s first chapter there.