In the 23 years she had worked with the association she estimated about $2 million dollars in aid during her 18 relief efforts(Hamen 92). She retired to her home in Glen Echo, Maryland. She had written two books, one was about her time in the Red Cross called “ A Story of the Red Cross”, and the other based off of her childhood called “The Story of my Childhood”( Hamen 92). On April 12th, 1912 she had died at age 90.
People may not know who she is, but she had truly changed medical history. In her 23 years in the Red Cross she had managed to do so much. Throughout her lifetime she had become very important to the medical