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Clarissa Harlowe Barton is born in North Oxford, Massachusetts.
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She becomes a teacher at age sixteen.
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She created a school and through her hard work and effort a man became the principal and had twice her salary so Clara quit being a teacher.
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During the Civil War Clara serves as a nurse aiding wounded soilders.
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In 1864, Clara is known as the "Angel of the Battlefeild" because soldiers in desperate need of help saw her as a sweet and kind person for helping them.
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She traveled to Geneva, Switzerlnd to observe the releif efforts of the International Red Cross.
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In 1877 the International Red Cross wants the United States to sign a treaty stating that they would help anyone, didn't matter which country they where from, that was a wounded soldier after any war.
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The American government still didn't sign the treaty so Clara took mattters into her own hands and created the American Red Cross.
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The Geneva treaty is finally ratified.
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In 1904, Clara Barton, the president of the American Red Cross is retired and publishes a book about the American Red Cross to give us a glimpse of the organization.
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Clara Barton dies at Glen, Maryland at age 91 and still unmarried.
