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ClarrisaHarlowe
Barton is a great American hero to women everywhere. She was born on Christmas
day, 1821 in North, Oxford, Massachutess. She was the youngest of five
childern, having two older brothers and two older sisters. Being born ten
years after the youngest of her siblings made her feel like an only child.
At the age of fifteen she established a school for the childern of the worker s that worked at her fathers saw mill. this small sucsess encourged her and she took another teaching position in New Jersey. As luck would have it , Clara eventuallyresigned that position and turned her attion to the American Cival War. |
| In 1854 she became the first woman clerk in the United States Patnet Office. After the break of war she carried supplies to the soliders, and nursed wounded men on the battlefield. She became known as the "Angel of the Battlefield." In 1869 she went to Switzerlandand served as a nurse at the battle front. When she returned home in 1873 she convinced pepole to take part in Red Cross work. She discoverd the Amrican Red Cross in 1881. She became the Red Crosses first president and held the post from 1882 to 1904. Clara repersented the U.S. at the Internatinal Cnference of the Red Crosses in Geneva in 1884. She and the Red Cross helped during the Russian and Armenian famines in 1891 and 1896. |
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| Clara
Barton was not only a nuse she was a writer as well. She wrote many books
such as... The Red Cross in Peace and War in 1898, A Story of
the Red Cross in 1904, and an autobiographical sketch, The Story
of my Childhood in 1907.
Clara Barton died on April,12, 1942 in Echo Glen, Maryland. She was buried in the family plot in Oxford, Massechutes. Although both brothers and one of her sisters married theres no proof that Clara ever married. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Rachel Sahlmen
Spectrum Home
and Magazine
<http:/www.incwell.com/spectrum.html>
Jade Curtis
Clara Barton
National Historic Cite
<www.mps.gov/clba/chronl.html>
National American
Red Cross
<www.redcross.com>
Robert E.
Denny, Steerling Publishing CO, Inc, New York, NY 1994
Cival War Medicane:
Care comfort of the wounded
<http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6732/cb.html>
Stephen B. Otatyn,
Free Press, New York, NY 1994
A Woman of
Valor Clara Barton and the Cival War
<http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6732/cb.html>
Starla Massey
8th grade
2000