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About Clara Barton | Red Cross Founder

As founder of the American Red Cross, Clara is considered a visionary whose humanitarian spirit helped change the world.

Clara Barton Biography - National Women's History Museum

Educator and humanitarian Clara Barton helped distribute needed supplies to the Union Army during the Civil War and later founded the disaster relief ...

Clara Barton - National Museum of the United States Army

By the time Barton founded the American Red Cross, she was nearly 60 years old and had already led a life full of selfless service. For her humanitarian efforts ...

Clara Barton - Wikipedia

Clara Barton ... Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse ...

Founder Clara Barton - American Red Cross

Clarissa Harlowe Barton, Clara, as she wished to be called, is one of the most honored women in American history. She began teaching school at a time when ...

10 Facts: Clara Barton | American Battlefield Trust

She modeled the organization after its international counterpart, and served as its first president from 1881 to 1904. She led the organization in aiding ...

Clara Barton | American Red Cross Founder, Civil War Nurse

Clara Barton was the founder of the American Red Cross. Barton was educated at home and began teaching at age 15. She attended the Liberal ...

Clara Barton - Biographies - Maryland State Archives

She is best known for being the founder of the American Red Cross and the National First Aid Society. Barton supported many of the nineteenth-century reform ...

Clara Barton (U.S. National Park Service)

Clara Barton brought them food and supplies and tended to their needs. Following the First Battle of Manassas, she cared for the wounded as they ...

Biography - Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum

Clara Barton was thirty-nine and on her second career when the Civil War started. That didn't stop her from getting involved, making a difference, and ...

Clara Barton: 7 Facts about the Civil War Nurse and Medical Pioneer

After witnessing and joining the efforts of the International Red Cross in Europe to help victims of war, Barton founded the American Red Cross ...

Clara Barton: Biography, American Red Cross Founder, Nurse

Who Was Clara Barton? Clara Barton was an independent nurse during the Civil War. While visiting Europe after the war's conclusion, she worked ...

Clara Barton | American Battlefield Trust

Barton organized able-bodied men to perform first aid, carry water, and prepare food for the wounded. Throughout the war, Barton and her supply wagons traveled ...

Introduction - Clara Barton: Topics in Chronicling America

This guide provides access to materials related to the "Clara Barton" in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers.

Clara Barton: Her life and legacy as the founder of the ... - YouTube

Clarissa Harlowe Barton, known as Clara, is one of the most honored women in American history. Barton risked her life to bring supplies and ...

Clara Barton and The American Red Cross

Clara Barton spent a decade organizing the American National Red Cross, which was officially incorporated in 1882. Under her leadership the Red Cross assisted ...

Clara Barton - New Jersey Women's History

Clara Barton was an educator and advocate for publicly funded schools. She opened one of the first free public schools in New Jersey.

Timeline | Articles and Essays | Clara Barton Papers

A chronology of key events in the life of Clara Barton (1821-1912), philanthropist, nurse, educator, and lecturer.

Clara Barton

She began her illustrious career as an educator but found her true calling tending wounded soldiers on and off bloody Civil War battlefields.

13 Things You Didn't Know About Clara Barton - Cricket Media, Inc.

You may know that Clara Barton nursed soldiers during the Civil War and that she founded the American Red Cross, but what else do you know about her life and ...