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Clara Barton: New Jersey
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Throughout her life, Clara Barton led by example. In an era when travel was arduous, and many men and almost all women stayed close to home, Miss Barton traveled far and wide looking for new challenges. After teaching for several years in her home town, she opted for additional schooling.
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Clara Barton came from a small family.She was the youngest of five children. Her brother ad sisters were responsible for her education. At the age of 15, Clara Barton was so well spoken and so well read that she became a teacher.In 1853 Clara went to New Jersey and began in first free school. There she raised enrollment in Brodentown's school from 6 to 600.
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The teenage Barton was very shy but was ... well spoken and well read. Her mother suggested that she put her gifts to work by becoming a teacher. At age fifteen Barton began teaching at nearby schools. In 1850 she left to teach at Bordentown, New Jersey. Families in Bordentown were required to pay for children's schooling. Thus many children were unable to attend.
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Historians recently found new information on an elusive period in the life of Clara Barton after workers, preparing to demolish a three-story building in downtown Washington D.C., stumbled upon 10 boxes of her military records and artifacts. The items date back to the late 1860s, when Barton was the first woman to head a government bureau.
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Barton was educated at home and began teaching at age 15. She attended the Liberal Institute at Clinton, New York (1850–51), and in 1852 she established in Bordentown, New Jersey, a free school that soon became so large that the townsmen would no longer allow a woman to run it. Rather than subordinate…
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