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May 11, 2016 saicoordinator

Post Format: Status – A short status update, similar to a Twitter status update.

Clarissa Harlowe Barton 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. Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North…