Clara Barton's Contribution To The World

Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born December 25, 1821, in Massachusetts, to Captain Stephen and Sarah Barton. Her father was a prosperous businessman and community leader who served in the Indian wars and used to amuse Clara with war stories. Clara was mainly educated at home by her older sibling, she was the youngest of five children, and she was very shy. When Clara was 11 years old, her brother got injured and required medical attention at home, so Clara nursed him for 2 years, and that is how she became interested in the nursing field. She actually was sent by her father to a nursing private school, but her shyness became an obstacle for her health and she had to go back home. While she was at home the doctor advised her to become a teacher, to help her overcome her shyness and improve her health, and so she did. She started teaching in North Oxford in 1838 and years later she opened her own school. Clara was a strong and fearless woman, like few of her time, and thanks to that and her huge efforts she accomplished great things. This essay will focussed on her most important contribution to the world, and how her efforts are still paying off today. After being in charge of a public school in New Jersey, Clara moved out to …show more content…
According to the Red Cross Organization one day while she was tending a wounded soldier a bullet passed through her sleeve and killed the soldier she was tending (n.page). That was not her only near death experience. She always kept records of the men se tended, and that is how she found herself replying to letters of thousands of families who were looking for information about their missing relatives. This became a tough job, so in order to cope with it Miss Barton decided to establish an office of correspondence and hired several assistants. While working together they replied more than 63000 thousand letters and identified more than 22000 missing