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The Life Of Clara Barton

Glen Echo, Maryland became the Clara Barton National Historic Site in 1975, the first National Historic site dedicated to the accomplishments of a women.

"Angel of the battlefield"

What is the American Red cross organization?

Death

- In 1861 Barton heard about the 6th Massachusetts Infantry getting attacked and were in bad condition, so upon their arrival to Washington D.C., Clara aid them with her own supplies from her house... this is where it all started.

-Clara Barton died at the age of 90 in 1912 in her Glen Echo home In Maryland.

- Present in all of the major battles, Clara provided surgeons and doctors supplies they needed in the battlefield for their patients. She also treated wounded and ill soldiers despite her lack of official medical training.

* Disaster relief (Responds to 70,000+ disasters annually. Provides food, shelter, & health services to affected families)

*Supporting America's military Families (helps military members, veterans and their families prepare for, cope with, and respond to the challenges of military service. )

*Blood donations ( Each year, nearly 4 million people donate blood through the Red Cross, helping to provide more than 40% of America’s blood supply.)

*Health & Safety Services(The Red Cross is the nation’s leading provider of health and safety courses, such as CPR, First Aid and Lifeguard training.)

*International Services (Responds to disasters and helps build safer communities in other places in the world.)

-After the war ended in 1865, Clara Barton worked for the War Department, helping to either reunite missing soldiers and their families or find out more about those who were missing and mark graves.

Teenage Years

-When Clara was 15 years old a noted phrenologist (the study of mental science) advised her parents to have her be a school teacher.

- At 18 Clara Began teaching school.

Birth

- Born on December 25, 1821.

-Born in North Oxford, Massachusetts.

- Born Clarissa Harlowe Barton.

-Youngest of five children.

- Born to Captain Stephen Barton and Sarah Barton.

Adulthood

Childhood

How the American Red Cross came to be

- At 33 Clara left the teaching profession

- Clara moved to Washington D.C., to work at a Patent office

- Always was an extremely shy child

-After the war Clara visited Switzerland and became involved in the International Red Cross organization.

- Through her childhood she was mostly educated at home by her older siblings and her father.

- After difficulties with her job at the patent office she finally got a stable position there after President Lincoln was elected.

- At age eleven her eldest brother got critically injured at a barn-raising. Clara nursed him for two years after the incident, this became her primary medical training.

-After returning home to America Clara Barton began to lobby for an American branch of the International Red Cross by educating the public about it and getting supporters.

- Clara's father sent her to a private boarding school with the belief it would bring her out of her shyness. This motion failed and she shortly returned home.

-After much effort Clara got the official American Association of the Red Cross established on May 21, 1881 & became president of it in June

-She lead the Red Cross through many disaster relief programs, helping the homeless, and many other things. Clara resigned in 1904 as the Red Cross President.

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