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Clara was born in oxford Massachusetts. -
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25,1821- April 12,1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. -
Clara stared her teaching career in oxford MA -
Battle of solferino in Northern Italy prompts Henry Dunant to call for an international relief organization to bring aid to war injured. -
The 6th Massachusetts Infantry was attacked, and Clara began to take care of the wounded soldiers in Washington D.C. -
A European humanitarian effort to provide neutral aid to those injured in combat. -
Clara gave many speeches throughout the women's suffrage movement including the women suffrage convention in 1870. -
Barton risked her life to bring supplies and support to soldiers in the field during the civil war. She founded the American Red Cross in 1881, at age 59, and led it for the next 23 years. -
Clara Barton was self- taught nurse while formal nursing education courses did exist before the civil war, they were not common. Most of the civil war nurses were volunteers without much training. That said, Barton did receive an education just not in nursing. -
Clara died at the age of 90.