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Clara Barton

Clara Barton was born on December 25 1821 in Oxford massachusetts. She was the youngest child of 5 in a middle class family. Clara Barton had followed the army through virgina and Charleston S.C. and tended to casualties and searched for soldiers missing in action. She later founded the American Red Cross in 1881. In 1904 she had resigned from the head of that organiztions, to retire to Glen Echo. In April 12, 1912 she died of natural death.

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