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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Clarissa Clara Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 â April 12, 1912) was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She worked as a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, and as a teacher and patent clerk. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work at a time when relatively few women worked outside the home. She had a relationship with John J. Elwell, but never married.
Though only a clerk in the U. S. Patent Office when the war began, Clara Barton became known as The Angel of the Battlefield because of her devotion to finding and delivering first aid supplies and to nursing sick and wounded soldiers. Clara Barton was one of about two thousand women that were volunteer nurses.