Clara Barton

~Clara Barton~ Founder of the American Red Cross By: Susan Sloate 1. Timeline: See attached 2. The event from the timeline that I believe changed Clara Barton’s life would be in 1833, when Clara’s brother, David, fell of the roof while he and some friends were constructing a barn. Since he was very ill and Clara was not the type of person to sit back and watch, we volunteered to nurse him back to health. I …

…a bunch of different battles all over the world. She earned high pay at the Patent Office. Towards the end of the book, she began to get aggravated easily if things didn’t go her way. She started standing up for her own ideas and beliefs (such as the American Red Cross) because she wanted everyone to realize that even though she was a woman, she had excellent ideas as well as the men did.