Books/Writings
Clara Barton
Also known as: Clarissa Barton
1821 – 1912
American

Founder of U.S. Red Cross. She founded the U.S. Red Cross in 1881 as part of the International Red Cross and served as its president until 1904. She also successfully lobbied for the U.S. to join the Geneva Convention governing the treatment of prisoners.

Contemporaries
1817–1862Henry David Thoreau
1902–1987Carl Rogers
1809–1865Abraham Lincoln
1743–1826Thomas Jefferson
1842–1910William James
1859–1952John Dewey
1897–1980Dorothy Day
1857–1938Clarence Darrow
1907–1964Rachel Carson
1835–1919Andrew Carnegie
1837–1921John Burroughs
1820–1906Susan B. Anthony
1860–1935Jane Addams