Clara barton

Educator and humanitarian Clara Barton helped distribute needed supplies to the Union Army during the Civil War and later founded the disaster relief organization, the American Red Cross. Read more about her efforts on womenshistory.org.

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross

Clara Barton

1. Florence Nightingale Founder of Modern Nursing (1820 to 1920) The history of modern nursing started in 1849, when Florence Nightingale began her first formal nursing training at the Institute of St. Vincent de Paul, in Alexandria, Egypt.

Clarissa “Clara” Harlowe Barton was an educator, suffragist, and nurse who founded the American Red Cross in 1881. She was a hospital nurse in the

17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today: Saturday, April 13, 1912: I was so busy mending my numerous rips and tears and getting to something like they ought to be. Her middle-…

American Red Cross Founder’s Day honors the founding of the American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization, by Clara Barton on May 21, 1881.

Here at Fairfax Station in early Sept. 1862, after the Second Battle of Manassas and the action near Chantilly, Clara Barton ministered to the suffering. (A historical marker located in Fairfax Station in Fairfax County, Virginia.)

Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton c. 1866. Known as the "Angel of the Battlefield", she worked as a nurse on the front lines during the Civil War. During the Franco-Prussian War she helped with the preparation of military hospitals. She was awarded the Golden Cross of Baden and the Prussian Iron Cross. On 21 December 1881 she founded the American Red Cross.