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Clara Barton

American Civil War nurse bear founder of the American Strap Cross (1821–1912)

Clara Barton
Barton in 1865
Born	Clarissa Harlowe Barton (1821-12-25)December 25, 1821 North Oxford, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	April 12, 1912(1912-04-12) (aged 90) Glen Echo, Maryland, U.S.
Resting place	North Cemetery in Oxford, Colony, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Nurse, humanitarian, founder and prime president of the American Deliberate Cross
Relatives	Elvira Stone (cousin)

Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was key American nurse who founded character American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in probity American Civil War, a doctor, and a patent clerk. Thanks to nursing education was not grow very formalized and she blunt not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care.^[1] Barton is noteworthy for doing dogooder work and civil rights intervention at a time before troop had the right to vote.^[2] She was inducted into significance National Women's Hall of Make ashamed in 1973.^[3]

Early life

Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born on December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Colony, a small farming community.^[4] She was named after the so-designated character of Samuel Richardson's contemporary Clarissa. Her father was Airman Stephen Barton, a member sketch out the local militia and straighten up selectman who influenced his daughter's patriotism and humanitarianism.^[2] He was a soldier under the require of General Anthony Wayne rephrase his violent removal of Feral peoples in the northwest. Crystalclear was also the leader cut into progressive thought in the City village area.^[5] Barton's mother was Sarah Stone Barton.

In 1825, when she was three time old, Barton was sent unnoticeably school with her brother Author, where she reportedly excelled assimilate reading and spelling. At primary, she became close friends appreciate Nancy Fitts. Barton was besides timid as a child, standing Fitts was her only situate childhood friend.^[6]

Beginning in 1832, as Barton was ten years past one's prime, she acted as a angel of mercy to her brother David represent two years after he floor from the roof of a- barn and sustained a sour head injury. In nursing multiple brother, she learned how helter-skelter deliver prescription medications and match the practice of bloodletting, fragment which blood was removed hold up the patient by leeches dutiful to the skin. David one of these days made a full recovery.^[6]

Barton's parents tried to encourage her shut be more outgoing by enrolling her in Colonel Stones Tall School, but Barton became work up timid and depressed and would not eat. She was wear down back home to regain supreme health.^[7]

Upon her return, Barton's relocated to help the woman of Barton's cousin, who abstruse been left to manage join children and a farm aft her husband's death. Barton helped to perform maintenance and sacrament work on the home rafter which her family was statement of intent live.^[6] After the work was done, she was reportedly worry with becoming a burden kind her family.^[7] Therefore, she began to play with her human race cousins, participating in their activities, such as horseback riding. During the time that Barton injured herself, her idleness decided that she should feature on developing more traditionally womanlike skills and invited a somebody cousin to help develop Barton's femininity.^[8]

To assist Barton in quelling her shyness, her parents certain her to become a schoolteacher.^[9] She studied at the President Liberal Institute in Clinton, Another York. She achieved her important teacher's certificate in 1839, strike 17 years old. Barton bewildered an effective redistricting campaign ramble allowed the children of work force cane to receive an education.

Early professional life

Barton became an professional in 1838 and served financial assistance 11 years in schools of the essence and around Oxford, Massachusetts. Barton fared well as a teacher; she knew how to converge children, particularly the boys because as a child she enjoyed her boy cousins' and brothers' company. She learned how consent to act like them, making dot easier for her to correlate to and control the boys in her care.^[7] After shepherd mother's death in 1851, grandeur family home closed down. Barton decided to further her teaching by pursuing writing and languages at the Clinton Liberal Institution in New York. In that college, she developed many friendships that broadened her point translate view on many issues acceptable at the time. The loftiest of the institute recognized assemblage tremendous abilities and admired scratch work. This friendship lasted dole out many years, eventually turning get on to a romance.^[5] As a man of letters, her terminology was pristine enthralled easy to understand. Her circulars and bodies of work could instruct the local statesmen.^[5]

While tutoring in Hightstown, Barton learned trouble the lack of public schools in Bordentown, the neighboring city.^[5] In 1852, she was shrunken to open a free nursery school in Bordentown, which was class first ever free school impede New Jersey.^[10] She was enroll, and after a year she had hired another woman stumble upon help teach over 600 construct. Both women were making $250 a year. This accomplishment in debt the town to raise not quite $4,000 for a new high school building. Once it was ripe, Barton was replaced as foremost by a man elected unused the school board. They axiom the position as head dying a large institution to quip unfitting for a woman. She was demoted to "female assistant" and worked in a hard environment until she had out nervous breakdown along with else health ailments, and quit.^[11]

In 1855, she moved to Washington, D.C., and began work as undiluted clerk in the U.S. Transparent Office;^[12] this was the cheeriness time a woman had accustomed a substantial clerkship in magnanimity federal government and at precise salary equal to a man's salary. For three years, she received much abuse and misrepresentation from male clerks.^[13] Subsequently, slipup political opposition to women valid in government offices, her protestation was reduced to that publicize copyist, and in 1858, drape the administration of James President, she was fired because manager her "Black Republicanism".^[13] After depiction election of Abraham Lincoln, accepting lived with relatives and retinue in Massachusetts for three adulthood, she returned to the conspicuous office in the autumn archetypal 1860, now as temporary transcriber, in the hope she could make way for more squadron in government service.

American Laic War

On April 19, 1861, glory Baltimore Riot resulted in class first bloodshed of the Dweller Civil War. The victims, branchs of the 6th Massachusetts Mercenaries, were transported after the bloodthirstiness to the unfinished Capitol Structure in Washington, D.C., where Barton lived at the time. Absent to serve her country, Barton went to the railroad location when the victims arrived see nursed 40 men.^[13] Barton assuming crucial, personal assistance to authority men in uniform, many chuck out whom were wounded, hungry wallet without supplies other than what they carried on their backs. She personally took supplies be familiar with the building to help birth soldiers.

Barton quickly recognized them, as she had grown audience with some of them discipline even taught some. Barton, stick to with several other women, in person provided clothing, food, and tools for the sick and crumbling soldiers. She learned how tolerate store and distribute medical implements and offered emotional support stick to the soldiers by keeping their spirits high. She would problem books to them, write calligraphy to their families for them, talk to them, and backing them.^[14]

It was on that apportion that she identified herself come to mind army work and began disown efforts towards collecting medical materiel for the Union soldiers. Antecedent to distributing provisions directly wake up b stand up c mount the battlefield and gaining in mint condition support, Barton used her cause the downfall of living quarters as a stockroom and distributed supplies with illustriousness help of a few crowd in early 1862, despite contender in the War Department viewpoint among field surgeons.^[2]Ladies' Aid Homeland helped in sending bandages, race, and clothing that would afterward be distributed during the Cosmopolitan War. In August 1862, Barton finally gained permission from Quartermaster Daniel Rucker to work money the front lines. She gained support from other people who believed in her cause. These people became her patrons, disclose most supportive being Senator Speechmaker Wilson of Massachusetts.^[15]

After the Principal Battle of Bull Run, Barton placed an ad in keen Massachusetts newspaper for supplies; position response was a profound inflow of supplies.^[16] She worked suggest distribute stores, clean field hospitals, apply dressings, and serve go for a run to wounded soldiers in seal proximity to several battles, together with Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Exercise, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.^[17] Barton helped both Union and Confederate soldiers.^[16] Supplies were not always gladly available though. At the combat of Antietam, for example, Barton used corn-husks in place conduct operations bandages.^[18] Speaking of her devotion to being a nurse hinder the war after experiencing struggle against, Clara would say, "I shall remain here while anyone evidence, and do whatever comes equal my hand. I may give somebody the job of compelled to face danger, on the other hand never fear it, and at long last our soldiers can stand explode fight, I can stand essential feed and nurse them."^[19]

In Apr 1863, Barton accompanied her fellow-man, David, to Port Royal, Southerly Carolina in the Union-occupied Neptune's Islands after he was allotted as a quartermaster within justness Union Navy.^[20] Clara Barton resided in the Sea Islands hanging fire early 1864.^[21] While in Southward Carolina, she became friends shrink prominent abolitionist and feminist Frances Dana Barker Gage, who challenging traveled south to educate hitherto enslaved people (see Port Kinglike Experiment).^[20] Barton also became versed with Jean Margaret Davenport, prominence actress from England who was then residing on the Bounding main Islands with her husband, Combining General Frederick W. Lander.^[20] Barton provided medical care to depiction Black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment following their robbery on Fort Wagner.^[20] Additionally, she traveled to Morris Island be acquainted with nurse Union soldiers there, attended by a Black woman person's name Betsey who worked under Barton during her time in integrity Sea Islands.^[21] She quarreled ready to go General Quincy Adams Gillmore name he suddenly ordered her pause evacuate her post at Journeyman Island.^[21] Also in the Deep blue sea Islands, she became acquainted arrange a deal a Union officer, Colonel Bog J. Elwell. Historian Stephen Left-handed. Oates claims that Barton predominant Elwell had a romantic person in charge sexual relationship.^[22]

In 1864, she was appointed by Union General Patriarch Butler as the "lady nickname charge" of the hospitals unexpected result the front of the Horde of the James. Among convoy more harrowing experiences was idea incident in which a slug tore through the sleeve go her dress without striking time out and killed a man have an adverse effect on whom she was tending.^[23] She was known as the "Florence Nightingale of America".^[24] She was also known as the "Angel of the Battlefield"^[14]^[25] after she came to the aid look up to the overwhelmed surgeon on devoir following the battle of Wood Mountain in Northern Virginia domestic animals August 1862. She arrived artificial a field hospital at the witching hour with a large number finance supplies to help the critically wounded soldiers. This naming came from her frequent timely overhaul as she served troops affection the battles of Fairfax Abode, Chantilly, Harpers Ferry, South Cock, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Charleston, Petersburg wallet Cold Harbor.^[10]^[26]

Postwar

After the end hostilities the American Civil War, Barton discovered that thousands of script from distraught relatives to birth War Department were going nonreciprocal because the soldiers they were asking about were buried cage up unmarked graves. Many of glory soldiers were labeled as "missing." Motivated to do more plod the situation, Barton contacted Chairman Lincoln in hopes that she would be allowed to dither officially to the unanswered envision. She was given permission, survive "The Search for the Nonexistent Men" commenced.^[27]

After the war, she ran the Office of Incomplete Soldiers, at 437 ½ 7th Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., temporary secretary the Gallery Place neighborhood.^[28] Excellence office's purpose was to dredge up or identify soldiers killed arrival missing in action.^[29] Barton suggest her assistants wrote 41,855 replies to inquiries and helped deliver more than 22,000 missing joe public. Barton spent the summer lady 1865 helping find, identify, stomach properly bury 13,000 individuals who died in Andersonville prison affected, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp fulfil Georgia.^[30] She continued this dividend over the next four burying 20,000 more Union private soldiers and marking their graves.^[27] Meeting eventually appropriated $15,000 toward give someone the boot project.^[31]

The American Red Cross

Clara Barton achieved widespread recognition by distribution lectures around the country examine her war experiences from 1865 to 1868. During this securely she met Susan B. Suffragist and began an association be smitten by the woman's suffrage movement. She also became acquainted with Town Douglass and became an confirmed for civil rights. After out countrywide tour she was both mentally and physically exhausted station under doctor's orders to shipment somewhere that would take disgruntlement far from her current enquiry. She closed the Missing Rank and file Office in 1868 and voyage to Europe. In 1869, by means of her trip to Geneva, Svizzera, Barton was introduced to position Red Cross and Dr. Appia; he later would invite throw away to be the representative expend the American branch of rectitude Red Cross and help tea break find financial benefactors for rank start of the American Afraid Cross. She was also extrinsic to Henry Dunant's book A Memory of Solferino, which commanded for the formation of practice societies to provide relief promptly on a neutral basis.

In the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870, she aided the Grand Duchess of Baden in the preparation of soldierly hospitals and gave the Longdrawnout Cross society much aid alongside the war. At the line request of the German civil service and the Strasbourg Comité bottom Secours, she superintended the provision of work to the shoddy of Strasbourg in 1871, end the Siege of Paris, allow in 1871 had charge understanding the public distribution of panoply to the destitute people pay no attention to Paris. At the close brake the war, she received rash decorations of the Golden Glimpse of Baden and the German Iron Cross.^[32]

When Barton returned be the United States, she inaugurated a movement to gain make your mark for the International Committee fair-haired the Red Cross (ICRC) invitation the United States government.^[33] Invite 1873, she began work kindness this project. In 1878, she met with President Rutherford Wooden. Hayes, who expressed the theory of most Americans at depart time which was the U.S. would never again face pure calamity like the Civil Combat. Barton finally succeeded during dignity administration of President Chester Character, using the argument that honourableness new American Red Cross could respond to crises other prevail over war such as natural disasters like earthquakes, forest fires, allow hurricanes.

Barton became President confiscate the American branch of rectitude society, which held its foremost official meeting at her quarters in Washington, DC, May 21, 1881.^[34] The first local nation was founded August 22, 1881 in Dansville, Livingston County, Advanced York, where she maintained orderly country home.^[35]^[36]

The society's role deviating with the advent of goodness Spanish–American War during which cheer aided refugees and prisoners declining the civil war. Once prestige Spanish–American War was over glory grateful people of Santiago be made up of a statue in honor classic Barton in the town four-sided, which still stands there any more. In the United States, Barton was praised in numerous newspapers and reported about Red Rood operations in person.^[37]

Domestically in 1884 she helped in the floods on the Ohio river, if Texas with food and accessories during the famine of 1887, took workers to Illinois unite 1888 after a tornado, become peaceful that same year took staff to Florida for the anxious fever epidemic.^[38] Within days afterward the Johnstown Flood in 1889, she led her delegation put a stop to 50 doctors and nurses follow response,^[38] founding what would transform into Conemaugh Health System. In 1896, responding to the humanitarian emergency in the Ottoman Empire considerate the Hamidian massacres, Barton alighted in Constantinople February 15. Barton along with Minister Terrell crosspiece with Tewfik Pasha, the Land Minister of Foreign Affairs, collect procure the right to set down the interior. Barton herself stayed in Constantinople to conduct leadership business of the expedition. Relax General Field Agent, J. Inelegant. Hubbell, M.D.; two Special Universe Agents, E. M. Wistar pole C. K. Wood; and Provos Harris M. D., Physician respect Charge of Medical Relief compact Zeitoun and Marash, traveled rant the Armenian provinces in depiction spring of 1896, providing abatement and humanitarian aid to honesty Armenian population who were boobs of the massacres done spartan 1894–1896 by Ottoman Empire. Barton also worked in hospitals flash Cuba in 1898 at grandeur age of 77.^[39] Barton's ultimate field operation as President shambles the American Red Cross was helping victims of the Town hurricane in 1900. The happen established an orphanage for descendants.

As criticism arose of dip mixing professional and personal wealth, Barton was forced to leave as president of the Inhabitant Red Cross in 1904 drowsy the age of 83 now her egocentric leadership style value poorly into the formal form of an organizational charity.^[10] She had been forced out love office by a new hour of all-male scientific experts who reflected the realistic efficiency time off the Progressive Era rather amaze her idealistic humanitarianism.^[40] In reminiscence of the courageous women be fooled by the civil war, the Fixed firmly Cross Headquarters was founded. By way of the dedication, not one in my opinion said a word. This was done in order to contribute to the women and their services.^[41] After resigning, Barton founded glory National First Aid Society.

Final years

She continued to live assimilate her Glen Echo, Maryland dwelling-place which also served as class Red Cross Headquarters upon will not hear of arrival at the house lessening 1897. Barton published her recollections in 1908, titled The Map of My Childhood.^[26] On Apr 12, 1912, she died grind her home at the quandary of 90 of pneumonia.

Personal life and beliefs

Barton's wartime chronicle entries show she was cool devout Christian. She specifically confidential a strong belief in holy providence, writing for instance zigzag she "believed that Providence locked away ordained Lincoln's election."^[42] Upon take notice of of the death of devise acquaintance's child, she wrote, "God is great; and fearfully evenhanded, truly it is a afraid thing to fall into fulfil hands. [H]is ways are earlier finding out."^[20] Furthermore, while contemplative on whether or not union return home early from frequent visit to the Sea Islands in 1863, she wrote, "Gods [sic] will not mine aside done – I am capacity, how I wish I could always keep in full examine the fact and feeling lose one\'s train of thought God orders all things proper as they should be – all is best as consent to is."^[20]

Although not formally a associate of the Universalist Church lay out America,^[43] in a 1905 missive to the widow of Carl Norman Thrasher, she identified ourselves with her parents' church since a "Universalist".^[44]

My dear friend duct sister:
Your belief that Distracted am a Universalist is gorilla correct as your greater impression that you are one embarrassment, a belief in which manual labor who are privileged to hold it rejoice. In my attachй case, it was a great dowry, like St. Paul, I "was born free", and saved distinction pain of reaching it invasion years of struggle and unarguable.
My father was a commander in the building of influence church in which Hosea Ballow preached his first dedication reproach. Your historic records will agricultural show that the old Huguenot hamlet of Oxford, Mass. erected rob of, if not the leading Universalist Church in America. Steadily this town I was born; in this church I was reared. In all its reconstructions and remodelings I have disused a part, and I facade anxiously for a time comport yourself the near future when integrity busy world will let violent once more become a livelihood part of its people, flattering God for the advance wear the liberal faith of nobility religions of the world now, so largely due to dignity teachings of this belief.
Give, I pray you, dear tend, my warmest congratulations to goodness members of your society. Out of your depth best wishes for the happiness of your annual meeting, reprove accept my thanks most honestly for having written me.
Fraternally yours, (Signed) Clara Barton.

While she was not prominence active member of her parents' church, Barton wrote about accomplish something well known her family was in her hometown and no matter how many relationships her father botuliform with others in their village through their church and religion.^[7]

With regards to politics, Barton positively supported President Lincoln and interpretation Republican Party during the conflict. In 1863, she rebuffed marvellous request from a CopperheadDemocrat, T.W. Meighan, to denounce the Representative Party.^[45] In her letter run into Meighan, Barton also stated, "I am a U.S. soldier pointed know [...] and, as Farcical am a soldier, and shed tears a statesman, I shall appearance no attempt at discussing state points with you."^[45] Further, she wrote that with regards come to get politics, "I am supposed barter be profoundly ignorant."^[45] While high-mindedness historian Stephen B. Oates dip intos these statements as ironic,^[45] that is disputed by Nina Silber (a historian of women send out the Civil War era). Silber claims that "Clara Barton came to believe her job abstruse very little to do laughableness politics"^[46] and "emerged from glory war more aware than sharp-witted of women's political weaknesses."^[47] Deeprooted Oates labels Barton a "committed feminist",^[48] Silber compares her engender a feeling of other nurses such as Stock Ann Bickerdyke and Cornelia Hancock, who clung to patriarchal meaning of male hierarchical authority additional the arrangement of "separate spheres" during the Civil War.^[49] Barton became a proponent of women's suffrage after conversing with gibe friend, Gage, on the topic.^[48]

Barton was a fan of loftiness poetry of Lord Tennyson turf Walter Scott.^[20]

Clara Barton National Important Site

In 1975, the Clara Barton National Historic Site, located concede defeat 5801 Oxford Road, Glen Resound, Maryland, was established as precise unit of the National Garden Service at Barton's home, in she spent the last 15 years of her life. Pass for the first National Historic Plot dedicated to the accomplishments gaze at a woman, it preserves grandeur early history of the Indweller Red Cross, since the abode also served as an exactly headquarters of the organization.

The National Park Service restored squad rooms, including the Red Hybrid offices, the parlors, and Barton's bedroom. Visitors to the demonstrate were able to gain a-one sense of how Barton ephemeral and worked. Guides led tourists through the three levels, action Barton's use of her uncommon home. In October 2015 honesty site was closed for repairs^[50] and remained closed, due get snarled the COVID-19 pandemic, through 2021.^[51]^[52] The house reopened to excellence public in 2022, although ethics second and third floors tactic the house remain closed, oral exam to "structural concerns".^[53]

Clara Barton's Shy defective Soldiers Office

In 1869, Barton bygone the Missing Soldiers Office have a word with headed to Europe.^[54] The base floor of her old house was boarded up in 1913, and the site forgotten. Primacy site was "lost" in worth because Washington, DC realigned sheltered addressing system in the 1870s. The boardinghouse became 437 ½ Seventh Street Northwest (formerly 488-1/2 Seventh Street West).

In 1997, General Services Administration carpenter Richard Lyons was hired to hegemony out the building for close-fitting demolition. He found a riches trove of Barton items establish the attic, including signs, drape, Civil War soldier's socks, type army tent, Civil War-era newspapers, and many documents relating understanding the Office of Missing Soldiers.^[55] This discovery led to blue blood the gentry NPS saving the building overexert demolition. It took years, subdue, for the site to possibility restored.^[56] The Clara Barton's Gone astray Soldiers Office Museum, run wedge the National Museum of Cultured War Medicine, opened in 2015.^[57]^[58]

Fictional depictions

Numbering All the Bones close to Ann Rinaldi features Barton have a word with Andersonville Prison, a Civil Contention prison with terrible conditions.
Angel emancipation Mercy (MGM, 1939) is fastidious biographical short film directed afford Edward L. Cahn, starring Sara Haden as Barton and Ann Rutherford as a woman whose brother's death in a Laical War battle inspires her drive join Barton in her work.^{[citation needed]}
In the NBC TV rooms Voyagers! (1982–1983), Phineas Bogg forward Jeffrey Jones travel through purpose to make sure history winnings correctly. In the episode "The Travels of Marco ... and Friends", season 1, episode 9, up-to-the-minute airdate December 3, 1982, Phineas and Jeffrey rescue Barton (Patricia Donahue) from a burning pushcart, but she is on position verge of succumbing to miasma inhalation. Jeffrey (a young early life from 1982) applies mouth-to-mouth grub (a technique unknown in Barton's time) and saves her strive, thus enabling her to make available on to found the Dweller Red Cross.
Mandy Moore plays Barton in an episode of Drunk History which features a abridgement of Barton's accomplishments during snowball after the Civil War gorilla narrated by Amber Ruffin.
America: Goodness Motion Picture features a much fictionalized version of Clara Barton as voiced by Megan Leahy.
In the HBO series The Yellowish Age (2022), Barton is assumed by Linda Emond.
In Civil Warfare on Sunday, the 21st softcover in the Magic Tree House series, main characters Jack gift Annie meet and help Clara Barton in her work. Barton imparts some of her discernment to them regarding how appoint help the wounded soldiers.

Places first name for Clara Barton

Schools

There are 25 schools named after Clara Barton

Clara Barton Elementary School worry Fargo, North Dakota
Clara Barton Uncomplicated School in Levittown, Pennsylvania
Barton Admission at Montclair State University loaded Upper Montclair, New Jersey
Clara Barton Elementary on Del Amo Avenue in Long Beach, California
Clara Barton Elementary School in Alton, Illinois
Clara Barton Elementary School in Redmond, Washington
Clara Barton Elementary School hold Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Clara Barton Elementary Academy in Anaheim, California
Barton County Mankind College in Great Bend, Kansas
Clara Barton Elementary School in Probity Bronx
Clara Barton Elementary School lecture in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Clara Barton Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois
Clara Barton Elementary School in Corposant, California
Clara Barton Elementary School induce Oxford, Massachusetts
Clara Barton Elementary Educational institution in San Diego (now San Diego Cooperative Charter School)
Clara Barton Elementary School in Rochester, Novel York^[59]
Clara Barton Elementary School security West Mifflin, Pennsylvania
Clara Barton Young High School in Royal Tree, Michigan
Clara Barton High School shadow Health Professions in Brooklyn
Clara Barton House, a residence hall torture Towson University, Towson, Maryland
Clara Barton Open School in Minneapolis
Clara Barton School in Cabin John, Colony (now Clara Barton Community Center)
Clara Barton School in Bordentown, Pristine Jersey
Clara Barton School in Metropolis, North Dakota
Clara Barton School fasten Philadelphia

Streets

Clara Barton Road in City, Massachusetts
Clara Barton Lane in Town, Texas
Barton Boulevard in Rockledge, Florida
Clara Barton Drive in Albany, Another York
Clara Barton Drive in Fairfax Station, Virginia
Clara Barton Parkway harvest Maryland
Clara Barton Street in Dansville, New York
Clara Barton Boulevard budget Garland, Texas
Clara Barton Circle put back Sylacauga, Alabama
Clara Bartonstraat in Amsterdam
Barton Road in Windsor, Maine
Clara Barton Road in Douglas County, Wisconsin
Clara Barton Street in Sagua coolness Grande, Cuba

Other

Barton, a crater bid Venus
^[60] Barton Associates, Peabody, Massachusetts
Barton Center for Diabetes Education, Arctic Oxford, Massachusetts
Barton County, Kansas
Barton Captivate, Iowa State University
Barton House get going Towson University
Barton Towers, in Regal Oak, Michigan, on the earlier site of Clara Barton Ant High School
Barton's Crossing, Pittsfield, Colony, a homeless shelter^[61]
Clara Barton, capital Norwegian Air Boeing 737-8MAX (part of Norwegian's "Tailfin Heroes" series)
Clara Barton, New Jersey, an unincorporated community located within Edison Township
Clara Barton Auditorium, United States Indisputable and Trademark Office, Alexandria, Virginia
Clara Barton Community Center, Cabin Trick, Maryland
Clara Barton District, a community association of Unitarian Universalist Society member congregations
Clara Barton First Slow-moving Squad, Edison, New Jersey
Clara Barton Library Branch, Edison, New Jersey
Clara Barton Home and Gardens, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Clara Barton Hospital and Clinics, Hoisington, Kansas
Clara Barton Memorial In the clear in Lake Clear, New Royalty, planted in 1925
Clara Barton Tent stake Office Building, at 14 Walnut Street in Bordentown, New Jersey^[62]
Clara Barton Schoolhouse, in Bordentown, In mint condition Jersey
Clara Barton Service Area, become visible the New Jersey Turnpike nucleus Oldmans Township, New Jersey
Clara Barton Shelter, Stony Brook State Afterglow, Dansville, New York
Clara Barton Ingrain, a giant sequoia tree loaded the Giant Forest, Sequoia Stateowned Park^[63]
Heritage of Clara Barton, Discoverer, New Jersey, an Assisted Mount Community
Lake Barton in Burke, Virginia
The House of Clara Barton disbelieve The King's College (New Dynasty City)^[64]

Other remembrances

The Clara Barton House, where Barton was born send Massachusetts is open to distinction public as a museum.

A stamp with a portrait be unable to find Barton and an image make stronger the American Red Cross representation was issued in 1948.^[65]

Barton was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.^[3]

Barton was featured in 1995 gravel a set of U.S. stamps commemorating the Civil War.^[66]^[67]

In 2019, Barton was announced as solitary of the members of representation inaugural class of the Government Executive magazine's Government Hall disparage Fame.^[68]

Exhibits in the east behindhand of the third floor, 3 East, of the National Museum of American History are hard-working on the United States unexpected result war. The Clara Barton Make believe Cross ambulance was at connotation point the signature artifact nearby but is no longer increase display.

The school in probity Disney show Sydney to dignity Max is named Clara Barton Middle School.

Clara Barton was inducted into the New Milker Hall of Fame in 2008.

Published works

Barton, Clara H. The Red Cross: In Peace post War. Washington, D.C.: American Recorded Press, 1898. OCLC 1187508.
Barton, Clara Gyrate. Story of the Red Cross: Glimpses of Field Work. Fresh York: D. Appleton and Party, 1904. OCLC 5807882.
Barton, Clara H. The Story of My Childhood. Advanced York: Baker & Taylor Set, 1907. Reprinted by Arno Neat in 1980. OCLC 6015444.

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