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The American Forestry Association marked the, golden anniversary of the first Arbor Day by planting memorial trees for 

 J. Sterling Morton, who started Arbor Day in Nebraska in 1872. The planting was on April 22, the ninetieth anniversary 

 of Morton's birth and the trees were placed in front of the Association's headquarters. Clifford Lanham, of the trees and 

 parking department of the District of Columbia, supervised the placing of the trees. In the picture are : With shovel on the 

 left, Mrs. John N. Baldwin, of Omaha; with shovel on the right, Mrs. W. E. Barkley, former de^an of women at the State 

 University. Others in the .picture are: Miss C. L. Dodge, Omaha; Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Scott; Mrs. Annis Chaikin Sorenson, 

 Lincoln; John B. Shanahan, Omaha; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Evans, Dakota City; E. C. Snyder, Omaha, marshal for the 

 District of Columbia ; Fred K. Niejson, Omaha, solicitor for the State Department ; The Honorable John McClellan, Grand 

 Island; The Honorable W. E. Andrews, Hastings. After the tree planting the Association sent telegrams to Governor S. R. 

 McKelvie, Joy Morton, a son of Mr. Morton, in Chicago and to Nebraska City, the home of the elder Morton. 



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\ centennial oak was planted by the American Forestry Association on Easter Sunday for Clara Barton, founder of the 

 American Red Cross. The tree was placed in front of the, house at Glen Echo, Maryland, where the famous war nurse died 

 on Easter Sunday in 1912. Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles acted as chairman of the program arranged by Helen Fitz 

 Randolph. Dr. J. B. Hubbell, for thirty years a field agent of the Red Cross under Clara Barton; Mrs. John A. Logan and 

 Mrs. Daniel Lothrop, organizer of the Children of the American Revolution, helped plant the tree and gave short talks on 

 Miss Barton's life. Colonel Charles Sumne.r Young, of Boston, who has written a life of Miss Barton, was the orator of 

 the day. Miss Carrie Harrison and Mrs. Ross H. Johnson, a French war bride and now a member of the Red Cross, (planted 

 the Clara Barton rose. Miss Barton was born on Christmas Day, 1821, in Massachusetts. 



