American nurse who founded the American Red Cross in 1881. 

Clara was originally a school teacher. She became a patent clerk after moving to Washington D.C. When the Civil War commenced she became a hospital nurse during the civil war and delivered supplies to the wounded out in the field. Clara eventually became the “lady in charge” of the hospitals. After the civil war she ran the Office of Missing Soldiers trying to find and/or identify soldiers killed or missing in action. Barton met Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass in the late 1860’s and formed an association with the woman’s suffrage and civil rights movements.