Clara Barton Homestead - Oxford, MA - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

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Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was born on Christmas Day in 1821 in this house North Oxford, MA. The house features a gabled roof and a central chimney. It was built in 1818 in the colonial style designed by Clara's father Captain Stephen Barton. The house is one and a half stories high and has a five bay facade and center doorway.

Clara Barton was born in this house and live here until 1853. In 1921, it was purchased by the Unitarian-Universalist Federation of Women. They maintain the property it as a museum in her honor.

Early in her career she worked as a school teacher is south central Massachusetts. In 1850, she attended the Clinton Liberal Institute in New York and then opened a free school in New Jersey. Next she work as a clerk in the US Patent Office in Washington D.C.

She was in Washington D.C. when the Civil War began. In 1862, after the First Battle of Bull Run, Clara Barton involved the public and gathered and distributed medical supplies for wounded soldiers. In 1864, she was appointed by Union General Benjamin Butler to take charge of the field hospitals on the front lines for the Union Army of the James. In this capacity, she became known as is known as the "Angel of the Battlefield." After the war she was in charge of the Office of Missing Soldiers.

After the war she travelled to Europe. During a trip to Geneva, Switzerland, Clara Barton was introduced to the Swiss organization the Red Cross, an organization founded Henry Dunant that provided relief on a neutral basis. Clara Barton worked to get recognition for International Committee of the Red Cross by the United States government. Soon thereafter, Clara Barton became the first President of the American Red Cross.

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