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Clara Harlowe Barton is Born
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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Clara Barton
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Clara's First Job
At age 17 Clara gets her first job as a teacher in Massachusetts -
Clara Opens a School in New Jersey
Clara opens a school in New Jersey because there are no free public schools. It is in the town of Bordentown. -
Clara Leaves Bordentown, New Jersey.
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. -
Clara works for the patent office
After not getting the teaching job Clara moves to Washington. This puts her close to the Civil War. -
Clara's First Experience with Nursing
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. -
The Civil War Begans
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Clara Goes To the Battlefields
Clara gets official permission to work in the battlefield. -
Clara's First Battle
The Battle of Cedar Mountain , Virginia - This was the first documented battle at which Clara Barton served in the field. -
Clara had a brush with death
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. -
Atlanta is Burned
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Clara opens a Missing Warriors office
After pleading with president she opens a office looking for misssing soilders. She finds 22,000 missing soilders. -
Clara becomes ill
After serving years of nursing Clara becomes very ill during battle. -
Clara Travels to Europe and Comes up with the Red Cross
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. -
Clara Helps in a Second War
Clara helps the soilders in a second war the The Franco-Prussian War. -
Clara Returns to America
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Clara Forms the Red Cross
After returing to America Clara froms the Red Cross and is made the first president. -
Clara Wrote her First Book
She wrote it about the Red Cross. -
Clara publishes an autobiography
Clara writes about the Red Cross and her whole life. -
Clara dies
Clara dies at age 90.
