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Payne Led Red Cross During Disasters and War
John Barton Payne, later chairman of the American Red Cross, served 1921 1935 directing relief efforts from floods to hurricanes and the 1930s drought. He mentored Frederick County Red Cross founders and received honors from many nations before dying January 24 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Barton Payne
Frederick Red Cross
Edgar Lee Masters
Chicago
American National Red Cross
Payne
Pruntytown
Virginia
West Virginia
Fauquier County
Paynes
John Payne
Warrenton
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Parkersburg
Kingwood
Preston County
Masters
Illinois
Superior Court
Cook County
Spoon River
Iinois
Wilson
America
Congress
United States
Germany
White House
Frederick County
Frederick
Lewis H. Fraley
D. John Markey
National Guard
Emmitsburg
Hayward
County Defense Association
Major Markey
Armory
The
Red Cross
Gambrill
Evangelical Reformed Church
Thomas Freeman Dixon
Presbyterian Church
Thomas B. Johnson
Hayes Brown
Jefferson
R. M. Rau
Florence Garner
D. Columbus Kemp
Hammond Urner
George Birely
Edwin C. Markell
Ernest Helfenstein
Annie Brunner Kemp
American Red Cross
Joseph D. Baker
Baker
Selective Service Board
Liberty Loan Committee
J. Travers Thomas
Seminary Hall
East Church Street
Henry Stockbridge
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Taft
Yale
Washington
Eliot Wadsworth
Wadsworth
Massachusetts
Red Cross Central Committee
South Market Street
H. Albert Dean
Livingston Farrand
University of Colorado
Farrand
Interior
Harding
Judge Payne
Florida
West Indies
Russell E. Lighter
Delaplane
Maryland
Jennie Byrd Bryan
St. John's Episcopal Church
Cary T. Grayson
George Washington University
Albert W. Condon
Dill Avenue
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Chile
China
Costa Rica
Estonia
France
Greece
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Norway
Poland
Siam
Sweden
Venezuela
Yugoslavia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt