Clara Barton

Clara Barton

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  Clara Barton By SofiaG.
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  What is ahero What is a hero? Many people ask them selfs this question daily many people have different opinions on this subject but the most common opinion is a person that has changed life as we know it if it is one person to the world a hero helps every one. This paper is about one of these millions of heroes Clara Barton Founder of the Red Cross
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  Clara Barton Asa child
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  Clara Barton wasborn December 25,1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts. Clara had two sisters and two brothers. Her sisters were Dorothy and Sally , and her brothers were Stephen and David. Clara was the youngest of her siblings. Clara was destined to be a nurse she took care of her dog when he hurt his leg. The first time she helped a human recover was at age 11 when her brother David was fixing the roof and fell off. The doctor said he would die in a matter of days Clara was determined not to let that happen and nursed him back to health.( http://en.wikipedia.org )
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  Clara Barton early professional Life
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  Clara Barton wasmore then a nurse and founder of the Red Cross she also was a teacher she started teaching in the year 1838 she taught for a dozen years until she went back to school and learned languages and writing. After finishing school Clara opened a free school there were 603 students and because she was a woman Clara was not excepted as head master, they chose a man. She then moved to Washington D.C and worked as a clerk at the US patent office this was the first time a woman received a clerkship in the US Government. Her salary equivalent to a man's salary. After Abraham Lincoln's election she moved Back to Massachusetts to live with friends and relatives for three years she returned to the patent office autumn 1861 as a temporary copyist. She was probably the first woman to work in the government . ( http:// Wikipedia.org )
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  Clara Barton theCivil war
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  Clara Barton wasappointed to the Civil war in 1864 by Union General Benjamin Butler she was lady in charge of the hospitals of the Army of James. She was called angel of the battlefield because a bullet tore through the sleeve of her dress which missed her but killed one of the men she was tending.
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  Clara Barton theRed Cross
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  Clara Barton startedfounding the Red Cross in the US in 1873 and finally got the Red Cross in the US in the year may 21,1881. She worked as president of the Red Cross until her death on April 12, 1912
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