Clara Barton was a teacher and nurse who started the American Red Cross. Read about her life, education, role in the Civil War, death, and more.
Clara Barton was the youngest of five children in a Massachusetts farming family. She was ten years younger than the next-youngest sibling. As a child, Clara Barton heard stories of wartime from her father, and, for two years, she nursed her brother David through a long illness. At fifteen...
DRawing Lesson: Portrait of Clara BartonThe article presents a drawing lesson for children using the portrait of Clara Barton, who was a teacher in Massachusetts and became known as the Angel of the Battlefield...
Clara Barton was the founder of the American Red Cross. Barton was educated at home and began teaching at age 15. She attended the Liberal Institute at Clinton, N.Y. (1850–51). In 1852 in Bordentown, N.J., she established a free school that soon became