Clara Barton
Clarissa Harlowe (Clara) Barton, was born in 1821. She became a teacher in 1838, one of the first women to take up the profession. After teaching for more than ten years at extremely prominent schools, she founded a school free school in New Jersey. During the Civil War, she played a prominent role in the field hospitals. This work put her extremely close to many battles, and she often found herself in harm's way. After the war, Barton contributed highly to the women's suffrage movement and became one of the key figures in the American Red Cross. She died in 1912.
"An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum or happiness."
-Clara Barton
"An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum or happiness."
-Clara Barton