Clara Barton By Ashley R.

Childhood

• Born on Christmas Day, 1821• Very shy• Siblings taught her things like math

and spelling• Nursed her brother when he was hurt• Her family was very dysfunctional

Education and Teaching

Taught at Massachusetts's District 9

Established a school in North Oxford

Entered the Liberal Institute in New York

Opened a school in Boredentown, New Jersey

The Civil War

• Began service in 1862 by sewing bandages and towels for the soldiers

• Earned her nickname “Angel of the Battlefield”

• Worked in field hospitals

Organizational Positions and Careers

• Teacher in Massachusetts and New Jersey• US Patent Office clerk• Civil War volunteer• Superintendant of Union nurses• Office of Correspondence worker• Suffragist movement volunteer• President and emissary of the American Red

Cross• Representative of the Third International

Conference

Europe

• She went because of a physical breakdown

• Treaty of Geneva• Discovered the Red Cross during the

Franco-Prussian War• Wanted to take it to the United

States

The Red Cross in America

• Made countless trips to Washington• Began to establish it in 1877• The government didn’t think they

would be involved in any more wars, so they didn’t quickly take to the idea

• Helped natural disasters• Recognized in 1881 as an official

organization

Awards and Honors

• Augusta medal for humanitarian services

• Honorary president of the National First Aid Association of America

• Highest honor of the Red Cross• Iron Cross in Europe

Quotes

• “The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.”

•      “I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”

“The surest test of discipline is its absence.”“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and

nobody's business is my business.”"You must never so much as think whether you like

it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it."