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The American Red Cross in the Great War (The Macmillan Company, 1919). Dulles, Foster Rhea. The American Red Cross: A History. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1950). Egan, Timothy B. and Thanousone Pravongviengkham. "American Red Cross: A History and Analysis" (Defense Technical Information Center, 2016) online; Fike, Claude E.
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]
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
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.
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.
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 ...
In 1991, Dole became the president of the American Red Cross. [19] She served until 1999. She was the second woman to serve as president since Clara Barton founded the organization in 1881. She restructured the world's largest humanitarian organization during her eight years as president, serving as a volunteer in her first year.
Date listed [4] Location City or town ... American Red Cross founded here by Clara Barton: 30: ... 1881-1885 & 1818-1870 Rochester St., ...