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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

  • Clara's First Job

    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
    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.

    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

    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

    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

    The Civil War Begans
  • 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

    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

  • 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

    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

    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 in a Second War
    Clara helps the soilders in a second war the The Franco-Prussian War.
  • Clara Returns to America

  • Clara Forms the Red Cross

    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 publishes an autobiography
    Clara writes about the Red Cross and her whole life.
  • Clara dies

    Clara dies at age 90.