Clara Barton
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Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not very formalized, and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care.
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Barton c. 1866
Detail of Clara Barton monument at Antietam National Battlefield, with red cross formed of a brick from the home where she was born
Clara Barton honored on a 1948 U.S. commemorative stamp
Photo by James E. Purdy (1904)
Clara Barton's home and site of American Red Cross.
Clara Barton - steel engraving by John Sartain
Clara Barton Tree, Sequoia National Park (June 2022)Awards 3
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About this person
Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not very formalized, and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy at a time before women had the right to vote. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.
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