Clara Barton

(1821 - 1912)

Born in 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts, Clara Barton was called “the angel of the battlefield” for her volunteer service during the Civil War. She later worked for the International Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian War, returning to America in 1873, where she successfully lobbied the U.S. Senate to ratify the first Geneva Convention and served as president of the American Red Cross for twenty-three years.