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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]
The American Red Cross Nursing Service was organized in 1909 by Jane Arminda Delano (1862-1919). A nurse and member of the American Red Cross , Delano organized the nursing service as the reserve of the Army Nurse Corps to be ready just before the entry of the United States into World War I .
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 – 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
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.
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.
Solomons helped establish the American Red Cross with Clara Barton in 1881. By 1883, he was second vice president, an office he held for twelve years. He was a director of the Columbia Hospital and Living In Asylum for twenty years [4] and a charter member of the Garfield Memorial Hospital and the Providence Hospital.