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"Clara Barton." Missing Soldiers Office Museum, 270net Technologies, www.clarabartonmuseum.org/bio/.

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Murphy, Frank. Brave Clara Barton. Illustrated by Sarah Green, Penguin Random House. Step into Reading.

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I am a woman
"I will never work for less than a man"
I am a helper
Serving other people by doing everything I can
I am strong
I was on site during the Civil War
I am kindhearted
I helped free slaves and serve the poor
I am a writer
Talking about my struggles helped others
I am a hard worker
Always looking to help my sisters and brothers
I am a Nurse
I founded the Red Cross
I am American History
I am a female boss

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Clara Barton
1821 - 1912

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Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts. She was a very shy person but her parents directed her to become a teacher. She began teaching at 18 and founded a school for workers’ children when she was 24. After moving to Bordentown, New Jersey, she established the first free school there in 1852. She resigned when she discovered that the school had hired a man at twice her salary, saying she would never work for less than a man.

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When the Civil War began in 1861 Barton made it her mission to bring supplies to Union soldiers in need. In 1862, she  transported supplies to battlefields and was at every major battle in Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina. She was officially named head nurse for one of General Benjamin Butler’s units in 1864. She joined Frances Gage in helping to prepare slaves for their lives in freedom. After the war, Barton helped locate missing soldiers, mark thousands of graves, and testified in Congress about her wartime experiences.

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In 1869, Barton traveled through Europe. While in Switzerland, she learned about the International Red Cross, which was established in Geneva in 1864. When she returned to the US, she built support for the creation of an American society of the Red Cross by writing pamphlets and meeting with President Rutherford B. Hayes. On May 21, 1881, the American Association of the Red Cross was formed; and Barton was elected the president of it in June. In 1882, the US joined the International Red Cross.

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Barton remained with the Red Cross until 1904, attending national and international meetings, aiding with disasters, helping the homeless and poor, and writing about her life and the Red Cross. She was also a supporter of women’s suffrage. In 1904, she established the National First Aid Association of America, an organization that emphasized emergency preparedness and developed first aid kits. Her home in Glen Echo, Maryland became the first Historic Site belonging to a woman, in 1975.