Barton, Clara

A reformer and nurse of the nineteenth century, who founded the American Red Cross in the 1880s. She had organized nursing care for Union soldiers during the Civil War .

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Clara Barton, ill and unable to attend, sent a letter to be read, an appeal to her soldier friends for woman suffrage.

Clara Barton seemed the one most familiar but knowledge concerning her was very limited.

All this time Clara Barton was with the soldiers on their bloodiest battle-fields.

No deed gives a clearer insight into the character of Clara Barton than that.

Its chief officer is Miss Clara Barton, whose work has been so great and noble that it has made the whole world better.

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