This is a slide show depicting the life of Clara Barton. The phrases are short because I will be narrating it as I present it.

1. Clara Barton
By Ashley R.

2. Childhood
• Born on Christmas Day, 1821
• Very shy
• Siblings taught her things like math and
spelling
• Nursed her brother when he was hurt
• Her family was very dysfunctional

3. Education and Teaching
Taught at Massachusetts's District 9
Established a school in North Oxford
Entered the Liberal Institute in New York
Opened a school in Boredentown, New Jersey

4. The Civil War
• Began service in 1862 by sewing
bandages and towels for the soldiers
• Earned her nickname “Angel of the
Battlefield”
• Worked in field hospitals

5. Organizational Positions and
Careers
• Teacher in Massachusetts and New Jersey
• US Patent Office clerk
• Civil War volunteer
• Superintendant of Union nurses
• Office of Correspondence worker
• Suffragist movement volunteer
• President and emissary of the American Red Cross
• Representative of the Third International
Conference

6. Europe
• She went because of a physical
breakdown
• Treaty of Geneva
• Discovered the Red Cross during the
Franco-Prussian War
• Wanted to take it to the United States

7. The Red Cross in America
• Made countless trips to Washington
• Began to establish it in 1877
• The government didn’t think they
would be involved in any more wars,
so they didn’t quickly take to the idea
• Helped natural disasters
• Recognized in 1881 as an official
organization

8. Awards and Honors
• Augusta medal for humanitarian
services
• Honorary president of the National First
Aid Association of America
• Highest honor of the Red Cross
• Iron Cross in Europe

9. Quotes
• “The door that nobody else will go in at, seems
always to swing open widely for me.”
• “I may be compelled to face danger, but never
fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I
can stand and feed and nurse them.”
“The surest test of discipline is its absence.”
“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and
nobody's business is my business.”
"You must never so much as think whether you like it or
not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never
think of anything except the need, and how to
meet it."

10. Quotes
• “The door that nobody else will go in at, seems
always to swing open widely for me.”
• “I may be compelled to face danger, but never
fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I
can stand and feed and nurse them.”
“The surest test of discipline is its absence.”
“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and
nobody's business is my business.”
"You must never so much as think whether you like it or
not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never
think of anything except the need, and how to
meet it."