The Life of Clarissa Harlowe Barton

Clara was born in North Oxford, Massachusetts to Captain Stephen and Sarah Barton.

Clara becomes a teacher in Massachusetts.

Clara taught school for 10 years and then decided to find a different job.
http://quotationsbook.com/assets/shared/img/508/100px-ClaraBartonWcbyoung.jpeg

Clara helped Civil War Soldiers by giving them food and clothes. She was also a nurse who helped wounded soldiers on the battlefield.

Clara creates a cemetery around the graves of soldiers from a war prison in Georgia.
http://quotationsbook.com/assets/shared/img/508/94px-CBartonWcbbrady.jpeg

Clara visits Europe and learns about the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland. This is how she gets the idea for starting the American Red Cross.
http://www.redcross.org/images/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m6040094_214x146-clara-barton-circa1865.jpg

She created the American Red Cross in 1881 and would be the leader of it for 23 years.
http://quotationsbook.com/assets/shared/img/508/78px-Wcbfranc.jpeg

Clara was the superintendent at the Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women.
http://www.redcross.org/images/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m6040095_214x146-clara-barton-circa1881.jpg

Clara dies at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland. She was buried in Oxford, Massachusetts.
http://quotationsbook.com/assets/shared/img/508/Cbartoncolorized.jpg