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Charles Sumner Young

Best remembered for writing about Clara Barton, this early 20th-century author focused on public service, humanitarian ideals, and relations between the United States and Mexico.

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Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

About the author

Charles Sumner Young is a little-known American author whose surviving published work points to a strong interest in history, reform, and public life. He is credited with Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian, a commemorative biography of Barton that helped keep her humanitarian legacy in view for later readers.

He also wrote The Two Republics: International Relations—United States and Mexico, based on an address delivered in Los Angeles in 1915. Taken together, these works suggest a writer drawn to civic themes and international understanding as well as biography.

Reliable biographical details about his personal life are scarce in the sources I could confirm, so much of his background remains unclear. What does come through is the character of his subject matter: he wrote about people and ideas meant to inspire public-minded readers.