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2 unusual facts about Clara Barton


Districts of the Unitarian Universalist Association

It is named after Clara Barton, a pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian, remembered for organizing the American Red Cross; it currently presides over 64 member and 1 emerging congregations.

New York State Route 36

At the southern village line, NY 36 meets the southbound entrance and exit ramps for I-390 at exit 4 and gains the name Clara Barton Street.


Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War

Among the notables who served as nurses or medical assistants were poet Walt Whitman, American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, and Dorothea Dix.


see also

Mary Howe

“Heroines of Service”- includes music of Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams