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| Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821, in Oxford, Massachusettes. She was the fifth child of Steven and Sara Barton. Clara Barton became a teacher soon after taking a class at the Liberal Institute in Clinton, New York. She had a series of nervous colapses, and in the classroom in 1854, her voice failed her. Later that year, she resigned. She soon found another job as a copyist in Washington, DC. In the patent department until the civil war began. There, she became one of the first civilians to start rounding up army supplies. She rented a warehouse, and had friends send food and comforts for the soldiers. Clara Barton aided surgens, bandaged the wounded, and fed and nursed the dying soldiers. It was Clara Barton's kettle and mush wich was welcomed by the soldiers. Ahe was soon appointed superintendant of the nurses of the army of the James in 1864. On two occasions, she nearly lost her life, when fragments of shell ripped through her clothes. After the war, President Lincoln commisioned Miss Barton to put her ideas into action. From 1866-1868, she lectured across the country until a meeting at Portland, M.E. when her voice failed again. Clara Barton dies April 12, 1912 in Glen Echo, Massachustettes. Clara Barton was also elected into many fammed places. Some being: The Hall of fame for honerable and reatly noted people The Hall of fame for great superintendants The Hall of fame for noted personallities |
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