Although she was well know for her services to other people through her life, her true fame came when she organized the American Red Cross. Clarissa Harlow Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest of five children. Although she was very shy she loved to help people. (Hamilton, 17) Most of her siblings were ... touched. Clara remained active until her death from double pneumonia on April 12, 1912. Today the Red Cross provides humanitarian service that include disaster relief, biomedical services, health and safety training, community services a...

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... underprivileged children, or comforting a dying soldier, Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross, was a true historical heroine. Clarissa Harlowe Barton was brought into this world in Oxford, Massachusetts on December 25, 1821 (Sands 4).1 She was the daughter of Captain Stephen and Sally Stone Barton (Hamilton 17, 18).2 Clara was raised in a very charitable household. When she became older, her mother ... and father urged her to become absorbed in different types of community services such as helping youth with their schoolwork, and nurturing local neighbors with small pox ("The Biog...

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Clarissa Harlowe Barton, most widely, known as Clara, was born on December 25, 1821. She was the youngest of five children in her middle-class family. She was home-schooled until the age of 15, when she decided to begin teaching. Her ... be missing in action. Throughout different interviews, she was able to determine where most of the men were at the time. By this time she had performed most of the services that would later be associated with the American Red Cross, which she founded in 1881. In 1904 she resigned as head of that organization, retiring to her home, where she ... ...

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