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Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Miss Barton cared for her brother David Barton, who was injured and bedridden following a fall from a barn roof.
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Noted English phrenologist L. N. Fowler advised Clara Barton’s parents to have her teach school.
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Barton became a school teacher in 1837 teaching in the area for a dozen years in schools at Oxford, N. Oxford, Charlton, and West Millbury
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Miss Barton passed examinations and began a teaching career in the schools near Oxford, Massachusetts.
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Miss Barton established a school for the children of her brother’s mill workers.
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Clara Barton’s sister, Dorothea (Dolly) Barton, died.
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In 1850, Barton decided to further her education by pursuing writing and languages at the Clinton Liberal Institute in New York.
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Clara Barton's mother Sarah dies.
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Clara Barton resumes work as a school teacher.
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Founds the first public school in Bordentown, New Jersey.
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Moves to Washington D.C. and becomes the first female clerk at the U.S. Patent Office.
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Because the government is opposed to females working in government offices, she is downgraded to a copyist.
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Returns to Massachussetts
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Returns to the U.S. Patent Office after President Abraham Lincoln is elected
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Following the First Battle of Bull Run or First Manassas near Manassas Junction in Virginia, Clara nurses soldiers and founds an agency for medical supply. She is called the Angel of the Battlefield.
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Travels behind the front lines and nurses soldiers of the North and South during the battles of Petersburg and Richmond.
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United States of America Union Major General Benjamin Butler of the Army of the James appoints Clara Barton to be Lady in Charge.
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President Abraham Lincoln gives Barton the responsibility to find Union soldiers missing in action. Her bureau locates information on 30,000 men.
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Takes a break in Switzerland on doctors advice.
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Involved with the International Red Cross during and after the Franco-German War.
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Organizes aid during the yellow fever epidemic outbreak in Florida.
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Founded the American Red Cross and serves as the first President.
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Clara Barton dies at age 91
