Clara Barton. Papers, 1862-1911.

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Clara Barton. Papers, 1862-1911.

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Letters from Barton to Brother Bisbee, Mrs. L. A. Chilson, Josephine P. Holland, Jennie S. M. Nintur, J. B. Procter, Mr. Taft, Mrs. Norman S. Thrasher, 1862-1910. Letters relating to Barton, including correspondence between Lucy M. Hall and Josephine P. Holland, Julian B. Hubbell and Josephine P. Holland, and letter from Leva Thrasher to "women." Publications on Barton by Universalists; clippings; and biographical material.

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Harvard University, Divinity School Library

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Barton, Clara, 1821-1912

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Civil War nurse, suffragist, and founder of the American Red Cross Clarissa Harlow Barton was born in North Oxford, MA, on December 25, 1821, the fifth and last child of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. She was a shy and lonely child, and for two years at the age of eleven she devoted her time to nursing her brother David during a protracted illness, an experience which later affected her life's work. At eighteen she began to teach in neighboring schools. In 1850 she spent a year at the Libe...