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The American Red Cross spent "less than one million dollars on domestic disaster relief, in comparison to the $120 million devoted to relief overseas. [66]" The American Red Cross during the war provided food, employment, housing, and medical assistance to millions of civilians displaced by the war.
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very formalized and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care. [1]
April 21 – The University of Connecticut is founded as the Storrs Agricultural School. April 28 – Billy the Kid escapes from his two jailers at the Lincoln County Jail in Lincoln, New Mexico, killing James Bell and Robert Ollinger before stealing a horse and riding out of town. May 21 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
The emblem is a red Maltese cross with the letters L.O.R.C. in the arms and a circle in the center containing a cross and crown. Offered sick and death benefits, also pledged to help members find employment and assist them in business. [205] Merged in the North American Union in 1914. [206]
In 1881 Clara Barton, at the age of 60, founded the American Red Cross. The organization's first official disaster relief operation was its response to the Michigan "Thumb Fire" of 1881. The Red Cross provided money, clothes and household items. [7] The fire caused more than 14,000 people to be dependent on public aid.
1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory; 1881 – Clara Barton creates the American Red Cross; 1881 – Tuskegee Institute founded; 1881 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett near Fort Sumner; 1881 – A Century of Dishonor written by Helen Hunt Jackson; 1882 – Chinese Exclusion Act
1881 – Clara Barton becomes the first president of the American Red Cross, which she founded. 1881 – Created the first Portuguese Nursing School at Coimbra, Portugal. 1881 – Seacole died in Paddington, London.
1881 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1881st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 881st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1881, the ...