Clara Barton Biography
Clara Barton’s real name is Clarissa Harlowe Barton and was born in North Oxford, Massachusetts on December 25, 1821. From ages one to four, Barton was homeschooled. When Barton turned four, her parents, Captain Stephen and Sarah Barton, enrolled her into Colonel Richard Stone’s school. She did well in her studies, but she was too shy to make friends or to play with anyone. At the age of eight years old, she had not made a single friend. To remedy this, her parents sent her to a boarding school to overcome her shyness. When she got to the boarding school her shyness got worst and her parents had to withdraw her. Barton helping others started at the age of eleven, her brothers, David Barton, had fallen off the roof and she took care of him
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In 1878 Barton writes to the People of the United States, Senators and Representatives in Congress about the Geneva Convention in The Red Cross of the Geneva Convention. What It Is: “... it seems to me, but proper, that while I ask the Government to sign it, the people and their representatives should be made acquainted with its origin, designs, and methods of work. To this end I have prepared the following statement, and present it to my countrymen and women, hoping they will be led to indorse and sustain a benevolence so grand in its character, and already almost universal in its recognition and adoption by the civilized world.” (nps.gov) She supported the Geneva Convention because, she wanted to bring the International Red Cross to the United States. President Chester A. Arthur signed the Treaty of Geneva in March 1882, with the unanimous ratification of the U.S. Senate, leading to the U.S. joining the International Red Cross.
When she returned home, Barton focused her attention on educating the public and obtaining support for the creation of an American society of the Red Cross. She wrote pamphlets, lectured, and met with President Rutherford B. Hayes. Her effort eventually paid off, on May 21, 1881, the American Association of the Red Cross was formed; Barton was elected President of the association in June and led it for the next 23 years. Over the years, local chapters were formed throughout the country to help people after natural
In 1878 Barton writes to the People of the United States, Senators and Representatives in Congress about the Geneva Convention in The Red Cross of the Geneva Convention. What It Is: “... it seems to me, but proper, that while I ask the Government to sign it, the people and their representatives should be made acquainted with its origin, designs, and methods of work. To this end I have prepared the following statement, and present it to my countrymen and women, hoping they will be led to indorse and sustain a benevolence so grand in its character, and already almost universal in its recognition and adoption by the civilized world.” (nps.gov) She supported the Geneva Convention because, she wanted to bring the International Red Cross to the United States. President Chester A. Arthur signed the Treaty of Geneva in March 1882, with the unanimous ratification of the U.S. Senate, leading to the U.S. joining the International Red Cross.
When she returned home, Barton focused her attention on educating the public and obtaining support for the creation of an American society of the Red Cross. She wrote pamphlets, lectured, and met with President Rutherford B. Hayes. Her effort eventually paid off, on May 21, 1881, the American Association of the Red Cross was formed; Barton was elected President of the association in June and led it for the next 23 years. Over the years, local chapters were formed throughout the country to help people after natural