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The Clara Barton Homestead, where Barton was born in Massachusetts is open to the public as a museum. A stamp with a portrait of Barton and an image of the American Red Cross symbol was issued in 1948.
The Clara Barton Homestead, also known as the Clara Barton Birthplace Museum, is a historic house museum at 60 Clara Barton Road in Oxford, Massachusetts. The museum celebrates the life and activities of Clara Barton (1821-1912), founder of the American Red Cross. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [1]
The Clara Barton National Historic Site, which includes the Clara Barton House, was established in 1974 to interpret the life of Clara Barton (1821–1912), an American pioneer teacher, nurse, and humanitarian who was the founder of the American Red Cross. The site is located 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Washington D.C. in Glen Echo, Maryland.
A dedication ceremony was held Tuesday along the Hagerstown Cultural Trail for the new Clara Barton Memorial by sculptor Toby Mendez. Memorial to American Red Cross founder Clara Barton dedicated ...
The Clara Barton Schoolhouse is a historical site in Bordentown, New Jersey, where Clara Barton founded the first free public school in New Jersey. [1] [2] Background
In addition, her family is linked to Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross and granddaughter of Ballard's sister. [5] She married Ephraim Ballard, a land surveyor , in 1754. [ 6 ] The couple had nine children between 1756 and 1779, losing three of them to a diphtheria epidemic in Oxford between June 17 and July 5, 1769.
In 1955, Boylston published Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross, a biography for young adults of Civil War nurse Clara Barton. [8] Boylston never married. [1] She suffered from dementia in later years, [18] and died in Trumbull, Connecticut at the age of 89, leaving no known relatives. [1]
Lorne was born in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, a small mining town halfway between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. She was the daughter of William Lorne MacDougall, MD, and his wife, Jane Louise (née Oliver), known as "Jennie". She was born in 1883 (although by the 1920s, she had shaved five years off her age).