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Biography of Clara Barton

Biography of Clara Barton

Clara Barton was born in North Oxford, Massachusetts on December 25, 1821 to Stephen and Sarah Barton. As a result of Clara growing up as the youngest child, she was timid and withdrawn. Throughout her life she would always seek acceptance and confirmation of her worth.

When Clara was three she began her schooling. Early on, teachers were impressed with this quiet girl’s advanced reading abilities, and soon were also pleased with her accomplishments in writing, arithmetic, and geography. In all her years in school, Clara excelled in the classroom and received much attention and praise as a scholar. While most girls her age were discouraged from active intellectual pursuits, her liberal and unconventional family encouraged her scholastic achievements. Clara would love to engage in playtime battles with her brothers based on wartime stories told by her father, a former captain. At age 11, when her brother David fell from the rafters of a newly raised barn, Clara volunteered to nurse him, and for two years fulfilled this occupation with great devotion. As she grew into adolescence, her parents encouraged her involvement in charitable work such as tutoring children and nursing poor families during a small pox epidemic. Unlike most persons her age, Clara chose to spend most of her free time actively assisting others by alleviating their illnesses or troubles. This was the beginning of a lifetime of work from which she would always receive her greatest satisfaction.

In her early adulthood, Clara began teaching at various schools in the community, working without wages in poorer areas; instructing students whose ages in one classroom ranges from toddlers to late teens. But as much as she cared about her students and the classrooms in which she taught, the unique challenges of each school held her interest, and once overcome, she persued new ones elsewhere. In the mid-1840’s Clara started her first crusade to aid the distressed and underprivelaged. At one school, having taught classes in a dilapidated building, and finding the textbooks and supplies inadequate and the attendance inconsistent. Clara carefully drafted a plan for improvements and presented her ideas at the town meeting. Clara’s efforts were rewarded when the school was reestablished in one o the area largest, central mills, and equipped with maps, blackboards, and a...

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