Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born in Oxford, Mass., on Christmas Day in 1821, said speaker Stacy McFarland, executive director of the Greater Shenandoah Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross.

American Red Cross historical poster Nearly 140 years after Clara Barton became the first president of the American Red Cross, Gail McGovern has overseen the American Red Cross response to ...

Clara Barton was a "trailblazer"who became "arguably the most famous woman in America" during the Civil War, according to authors of a recent book about Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross.

Today we have a very special guest joining us, Ms. Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, who recently celebrated her 203rd birthday on December 25th. Clarissa Harlowe Barton, known as Cl… ...

Clara Barton founded the first Chapter of the American Red Cross in Dansville in 1881. Artist Melissa Stratton will create the mural to honor her legacy at The Event Space on 170 Main St. in ...

In 1471, King Henry VI of England died in the Tower of London at age 49. In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River. In 1881, Clara Barton ...

Barton founded the first American Red Cross chapter in Dansville on May 21, 1881, also serving as its president. The Chapter 1 House is just steps away from the mural, on Ossian and Elizabeth streets.

That experience inspired Barton to bring the Red Cross movement to America, and she founded the American Red Cross on May 21, 1881. In 1882, the US ratified the Geneva Conventions to protect the ...

In 1881, she delivered a speech at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 21 Clara Barton St, that is credited with leading to the creation of the first American chapter of the International Red Cross.

On this date in 1881, Clara Barton and a group of like-minded exemplars founded the American Red Cross. As the modifier before “Red Cross” suggests, it was an idea borrowed from abroad and ...

Barton founded the first American Red Cross chapter in Dansville on May 21, 1881, also serving as its president. The Chapter 1 House is just steps away from the mural, on Ossian and Elizabeth streets.

In 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. In 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed Bobby Franks, 13, of Chicago, in a "thrill killing" that was often called "the ...