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Clara Barton Articles From History Net Magazines. Picture of the Day: December 26Clara Barton The founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was born in North Oxford, Massachusetts, on December 25, 1821.
Clara Barton, circa 1865 by Mathew Brady, Washington, D.C. Most famous and widely circulated photograph of Barton. When Clara Barton visited Europe in search of rest in 1869, she was introduced to a wider field of service through the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland. Subsequently, Barton read A Memory of Solferino, a book written by Henry Dunant, founder of the global Red Cross network.