Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts. Clara’s parents were Sarah and Capt. Stephen Barton. Her father was a member of the local militia and a selectman. She was the youngest of six children. As a young girl, Clara was really shy and didn’t have many friends except her siblings. She was just ten years old when her brother was badly injured by falling from a rafter in their unfinished barn. Clara then decided to nurse her brother back to health. It took three years for her brother to regain his health. This experience helped her overcome her shyness and was the first step to her medical career. Clara began teaching in schools at the age of 18. She later opened a free school in Bordentown, New Jersey. She soon learned that she couldn’t be the principal of the school that she founded because the job went to a man instead. Devastated, Clara came to the decision that she needed a serious change and moved to Washington D.C. Clara moved to Washington D.C. in 1855 and began to work in the U.S. Patent Office as a clerk. She was the first woman to work in a...
From childhood to death Clara Barton dedicated her life to helping others. She is most notably remembered for her work as a nurse on the battlefield during the Civil War and for the creation of the American Red Cross. Barton was also an advocate for human rights. Equal rights for all men, women, black and white. She worked on the American equal Rights Association and formed relations with civil rights leaders such as Anna Dickensen and Fredric Douglass. Her undeterred determination and selflessness is undoughtably what made her one of the most noteworthy nurses in American history.
Clarissa (Clara) Harlowe Barton born on December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts, was the youngest of Stephen and Sarah Stone Barton’s five children. Clara's father, Captain Stephen Barton (1774-1862), was a successful businessman, captain of the local army and a government official in Oxford, Massachusetts. Through his memorable stories of the Indian War in Ohio and Michigan, he taught her the importance of keeping an army equipped with arms, food, clothing and medical supplies. Clara's mother, Sarah Stone Barton (1783-1851), was a liberated woman who was known for her unstable temper. Growing up, Clara stayed close to her sister Sarah Barton Vassall (1811-1874) who was also a school teacher. One of Clara’s brothers, Captain David Barton (1808-1888) served as an Assistant Quartermaster for the Union army during the Civil War. He taught Clara to ride horses, and he became Clara's first patient after suffering a severe injury in a farm accident at a young age. Her oldest brother, Stephen Barton (1806-1865), was a businessman in Oxford and Bartonsville, North Carolina. Stephen taught Clara math while she was yet a little girl. Clara’s oldest sister Dorothea (Dolly) Barton (1804-1846) was remembered as a bright young woman who desired to continue her own education.
Clara Barton was born on December 25th 1821 in Massachussetts and is most widely known for founding the American Red Cross and supporting Union soldiers in the field during the American Civil War. Clara learned the arts of nursing at a young age when assigned the task of nursing her brother after he fell and received a severe injury.
On May 15, 1809, Mary Dixon Kies got the first U. S. patent issued to a woman. Kies, a Connecticut local, created a procedure for weaving straw with silk or string.First, Lady Dolley Madison praised her for boosting the country's hat industry. Lamentably, the patent record was annihilated in the tragic Patent Office fire in 1836. Until around 1840, just 20 different patents were issued to women. The creations identified with clothing apparatuses, cook stoves, and chimneys.
Barton’s training to become a hero started at a young age. She was brought up by her father, Capt. Steven Barton, a member of a local militia, who never actually attained the rank of captain. Her mother, Sarah Barton, was strict and industrious, and instilled the values of hard work into her children (Pryor 5). Barton’s tenure as a hero began early. When her brother, David, fell off the roof while building a barn and sustained serious internal injuries, Clara, who was just 11 years old at the time, took care of him and nursed him back to health (Krensky 18-20). This experience spurred Clara’s heroism, which would escalate during the Civil War. Clara Barton also set a precedent for women in the workforce. Barton started worked as a teacher for more than a dozen years before becoming the first female clerk in the U.S. Patent Office (Manning 121). Barton broke barriers as a woman in a male-dominated career, which opened the door for her heroism to shine, as she broke barriers in the Civil War
Clara Barton was born on Christmas in 1821 to Sarah and Stephen Barton (a former soldier). When Clara was 11 her brother David was injured in a farm accident. Clara helped nurse her brother after school for two years until he finally recovered (Clara Barton BIrthplace Museum). She grew up to become a teacher for several years and even started a school, but eventually resigned and moved to Washington D.C to become a clerk in a patent office. It was in Washington that she first encountered the soldiers of the civil war.
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on May 12, 1820. Even in her early life, Florence would find it necessary to help the sick people in her community. As the years went on Florence realized nursing was her future because it was her divine purpose. Her parents were not enthused by her plans to become a nurse and even prohibit her to pursue nursing. It was frowned upon in this time period of a woman with her social background to become a nurse. It was actually in the rights for her to marry a man of means, but when Florence was seventeen she declined to marry the man who offered her hand in marriage. She had her reasons for not accepting the proposal, she new she did not have time for a marriage at this time in her life. Despite the disapproval from her parents Florence set out to chase her dreams of becoming a nurse and enrolled as a nursing student at the Lutheran Hospital of Pastor Fliedner in Kaiserswerth, Germany.
Clarissa Harlowe Barton also known as Clara Barton was born in Massachusetts on December 25th, 1821 to Captain Steven Barton and Sarah Stone Barton. Barton started to attend school when she was just three years old. Clara was exceptionally smart from a young age yet extremely shy. Her shyness very often kept her from making friends. Clara cared for her brother at a young age after he was injured when he fell off the roof. The doctors all gave up on him yet Clara pushed on and he eventually made a full recovery. This was her
Clara Barton was known as one of the most honored women in American history. She was among the first women to gain employment in the federal government. She worked as a recording clerk in the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. when the first united of federal troops came into the city. She devoted her personal assistance to the men in uniform, some who had already been wounded, hungry, or were without bedding and clothing. She also started providing supplies to the young men of the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry who had been ambushed in Baltimore in the uncompleted Capitol building. She helped them write letters, and pray with them.
age eleven, Clara received real life training as a nurse when one of her brothers
Clara Barton made a difference in the world as a helpful Nurse. Clara was a nurse from the age of 11 to the age of 91. Barton left her job in 1861 at the patent office to help with the civil war. Clara brought supplies, food, and water to two hospitals by mule in the night. She helped with feeding and nursing the men from the war. Some of the doctors thought using medical supplies was a disgrace to their practice because they thought they could do much better than medical supplies was a disgrace so they fired her....
The American Red Cross founded in 1881 by Clara Barton. After working during the Franco-Prussian War with the International Red Cross, she became the first president and she would oversee assistance and relief for victims of disasters. As a child, Clara’s interest to help people began after her brother, David had fallen off a barn’s roof resulting in serious injury. Barton learned how to prescribe medications, place leeches on his body to help him bleed, and continuing aiding in his health until he made a full recovery after doctor’s had given up on him. Later on, her desire to help others led her to become a teacher at the age of 15. Afterward, she opened a public school in New Jersey.
Florence Nightingale, named after the city of Florence, was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820. She would pursue a career in nursing and later find herself studying data of the soldiers she so cringingly looking after. Born into the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale took the lead role amongst her and her colleges to improve the inhabitable hospitals all across Great Britten; reduce the death count by more than two-thirds. Her love for helping people didn’t go unnoticed and would continue to increase throughout her life. In 1860 she opened up the St. Tomas’ Hospital and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses before passing August 13, 1910 in London. Her willingness to care for her patients was never overlooked and wound establishing
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was born in London on Setpember 29th, 1810 to William and Elizabeth Stevenson. Her father William was a former Unitarian minister who, after retiring from the ministry, “combined farming, writing, and teaching before being appointed Keeper of the Records to the Treasury" (Allott 10). Her mother, Elizabeth died just over a year after giving birth and, consequently, while still an infant, Gaskell was sent off to live with her aunt, Hannah Lumb who resided in Heathside, Knutford. Throughout her young life, up until her 1832 marriage, Gaskell lived in various places around England including Stratford-on-Avon, where she received some education, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Manchester. It was in Manchester that she met her husband, William Gaskell, a minister’s assistant, “who was eventually to [become] Senior Minister and remain at Cross Street [Unitarian Chapel in Manchester] for the rest of a long, active life (Allott 11).” From 1832 to 1848, after her marriage to William Gaskell, Mrs. Gaskell lived a life of domesticity, giving birth to 6 children, with 4 surviving. Besides raising the 4 surviving children, Gaskell worked with her husband to aid, comfort, and minister to the poor of Manchester. In 1845, Gaskell suffered the haunting loss of her only son to scarlet fever at just nineteen months old. With the encouragement of her husband, Gaskell turned her grief towards writing, and her literary career began.
Florence Nightingale believed that God called to her telling her to be a nurse and to help the young and sick around her. When Nightingale heard this “calling” something clicked and she knew it was her destiny to become a nurse. She grew up tending to the sick and the elderly on her fathers estates. (Manning). Florence Nightingale was named after her birthplace of Florence, Italy. She was born into a wealthy family who had many estates. (Manning). Growing up, Nightingale was homeschooled by her father. Nightingales father was very against nursing because he did not think it was a respectable profession for a young lady. (Manning). Nightingales father believed that young ladies should be out and meeting their suitors, Nightingale did just the opposite and started staying home to study and declining suitors. Her actions were not received well by her family, but ...