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Clara Harlowe Barton is born on December 25,1821. She is born in the town of North Oxford, Massachusetts . Clara was the daughter of Captain Stephen and Sarah Barton. She was the youngest of five children.
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At age 17 Clara gets her first job as a teacher in Massachusetts
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Clara opens a school in New Jersey because there are no free public schools. It is in the town of Bordentown.
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The people of Bordentown, New Jersey are so happy with her school that they pay $4,000 for a new building. She is shocked to learn that she wouldn't be the principal of the school that she founded. Instead a man that would be paided double her pay would be.
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After not getting the teaching job Clara moves to Washington. This puts her close to the Civil War.
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While living is Washington wounded soilders arive in her town. She aids them with the few supplies. This is called her first experience with nursing.
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Clara gets official permission to work in the battlefield.
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The Battle of Cedar Mountain , Virginia - This was the first documented battle at which Clara Barton served in the field.
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While helping a soilder a bullet brushes her .Luckily it doesn't hit her is a way to hurt her. But it does hit the soilder she was working on killing him.
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After pleading with president she opens a office looking for misssing soilders. She finds 22,000 missing soilders.
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After serving years of nursing Clara becomes very ill during battle.
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While in Europe she discovers the International Red Cross. She thinks that this is a good idea and she wants to bring it to America.
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Clara helps the soilders in a second war the The Franco-Prussian War.
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After returing to America Clara froms the Red Cross and is made the first president.
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She wrote it about the Red Cross.
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Clara writes about the Red Cross and her whole life.
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Clara dies at age 90.
