Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On May 21, 1881 Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization to provide emergency assistance and relief for victims ...

Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross on May 21, 1881. Barton was inspired by the Red Cross movement in Europe while ...

But for Central Massachusetts, the month also marks more than 140 years since North Oxford resident Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe ...

Half a century before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had her first nursing experience at age 11, when her older brother fell off a barn roof. For nearly two years she remained at ...

The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton on this day in history, May 21, 1881. Nurse Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was born on Christmas Day, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts ...

Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton is among the most ... At the age of 60, she founded the American Red Cross, an organization she would lead for 23 years. * At the time, "homely" meant "domestic ...