Clara Barton started teaching when she was 17 and by , she established the first free public school in Bordentown, NJ. Patent Office. She was one of the first women to work for the federal government. From to , Clara Barton provided nursing care and supplies to the Union troops during the U.
Civil War. This military pass signed by U. Surgeon General William Hammond July 11, allowed Barton inside military lines to provide care to the soldiers. When the U. Civil War ended, Barton led a nationwide effort to locate missing soldiers for concerned relatives and friends.
The office responded to 63, letters from families and located 22, men, Barton closed the Office of Missing Soldiers in She was 59 years old. The American Red Cross was founded in , after Clara Barton learned of the international movement while visiting Geneva, Switzerland in This is the invitation Clara Barton sent for the first Red Cross meeting.
An appeal for disaster relief after a flooding event occurred in , signed by Clara Barton and her committee, including Frederick Douglass. The early years of the American Red Cross were spent responding to disasters, which included floods, fires, and hurricanes.
After the war, Barton helped locate missing soldiers, mark thousands of graves, and testified in Congress about her wartime experiences. In , Barton traveled through Europe to regain her health. Returning to the US, Barton built support for the creation of an American society of the Red Cross by writing pamphlets, lecturing, and meeting with President Rutherford B.
Barton remained with the Red Cross until , attending national and international meetings, aiding with disasters, helping the homeless and poor, and writing about her life and the Red Cross. In , she established the National First Aid Association of America, an organization that emphasized emergency preparedness and developed first aid kits.
Her Glen Echo, Maryland home became a National Historic Site in , the first dedicated to the achievements of a woman. MLA- Michals, Debra. National Women's History Museum, Date Accessed. Chicago-Michals, Debra. Clara Barton Edited by Debra Michals, PhD Works Cited. The American Red Cross immediately leaped into action, issuing a national emergency call for aid. Clara and a staff of fifty doctors and nurses arrived in Johnstown days after the disaster and stayed on-site for six months, setting up hospital tents and helping survivors to get back on their feet.
Donations of food, clothing, and building materials poured in from around the nation, including a large stock of lumber from Iowa. With no place to house the citizens or tons of supplies, Clara and her assistant, Dr. Julian Hubbell, designed a structure that could be built rapidly without stopping to saw the donated lumber.
In four days they erected a large warehouse for the donated materials. In , she was in Geneva, Switzerland when she was introduced to a group known as the International Committee of the Red Cross. It was a military medical organization established in that was very active in treating soldiers in European wars such as the Franco-Prussian War of Barton spent years trying to convince American presidents that the American Red Cross was an essential organization, but the presidents she talked to refused to believe that there would ever be a crisis like the American Civil War and decided that the American Red Cross was unnecessary.
But in , she convinced President Chester Arthur that the American Red Cross could be valuable in assisting in a variety of disasters other than war and the president gave his approval. She was also active in the causes that she felt to be worthwhile in the course of human history.
Early in her career as a nurse, Ms. Barton met Susan B.
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