Clara Barton: A Child's Biography

by Clara Barton

This biography of Clara Barton for children was excerpted from Mary Stoyell Stimpson's book, A Child's Book of American Biography (1915). Add over one hundred years to the time reference in her story

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About the author

American administrator Clarissa Harlowe Barton, known as "Clara," worked battlefield relief during the Civil War and organized the Red Cross in 1881.

This nurse pioneered and founded. This hospital nurse and patent clerk taught. People then not very formalized nursing education, and she taught self, attended no school, and provided care. Noteworthy Barton advocated humanitarian and rights at a time before the right of women to vote. The national hall of fame of women inducted her in 1973.

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