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Clara Barton: American Red Cross
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[I]nfluential citizens who questioned Barton's management established a rival to the officially recognized American Red Cross in New York City. Upset by this and by unwarranted commercial use of the Red Cross name and symbol, Barton implored the government to support the organization's charter as outlined in the international treaty. In 1891 two bills were before Congress to answer these concerns. But not until 1900 was the appropriate legislation passed and signed by President McKinley.
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Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts. In her long career of public service Miss Barton was successively a teacher, battlefield nurse, lecturer, and finally organizer and president of the American Red Cross.
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In 1881, Clara persuaded the American government to let her establish the American Red Cross, and became its first president. The American Red Cross helps victims of natural disasters around the world.
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Twenty years before founding the American Red Cross, for which she became famous worldwide, Clara Barton (1821-1912) came to the aid of Union soldiers fighting in the American Civil War. At first, War Department regulations and nineteenth-century female stereotypes limited her involvement, but before the war's end, she “broke the shackles and went to the field,” nursing hundreds of wounded and dying soldiers at Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and elsewhere.
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The United States National Historic Site protects 9 acres (0.04 km²) of land at her Glen Echo home including the 38-room former residence of Barton. The site is managed by the George Washington Memorial Parkway. The first national historic site dedicated to the accomplishments of a woman, it preserves the early history of the American Red Cross and the last home of its founder. Clara Barton spent the last 15 years of her life in her Glen Echo home, and it served as an early headquarters of the American Red Cross as well.
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Barton remained with the Red Cross until 1904, formally resigning at age 82. By then, both Barton and the American Red Cross had been involved in nearly every major war, catastrophe, and natural disaster that had occurred since the organization’s inception in 1881.
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