Clara Barton, Humanitarian: From Official Records, Letters, and Contemporary Papers

Washington, D.C: The Columbia Historical Society, 1918. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Boards lightly soiled, endpapers soiled, ink note and ink drawing on frontispiece recto, ink marks on rear endpaper. 1918 Hard Cover. 79 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece of Clara Barton, black-and-white plates. Clara Barton (born Dec. 25, 1821, Oxford, Mass., U.S.—died April 12, 1912, Glen Echo, Md.) was the founder of the American Red Cross. Barton was educated at home and began teaching at age 15. She attended the Liberal Institute at Clinton, N.Y. (1850–51). In 1852 in Bordentown, N.J., she established a free school that soon became so large that the townsmen would no longer allow a woman to run it. Rather than subordinate herself to a male principal, Barton resigned. She was then employed by the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C., from 1854 to 1857 and again in 1860.