The youngest of five children in a middle-class family, Clara Barton was born on Christmas Day 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts. Although she was educated at home, Clara began teaching school herself at the age of fifteen in various elementary schools in Massachusetts and New Jersey between the years 1836 and 1854. Prior to the Civil War, Clara's most noteworthy achievement was the establishment of a free public school in Bordentown, New Jersey. Additionally, her only medical experience prior …
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…of bitterness, she resigned as head of the Red Cross. Others felt that although Barton was truly a great and compassionate woman, who processed a big heart, she had stayed too long. It seemed that she was a better organizer and founder than a manager. Upon her resignation, she retired to her home in Glen Echo, Maryland, where she died on April 12, 1912. Clara Barton was truly a great American who dedicated her life to humanity.