Clara Barton’s Death – Cause and Date

The entrepreneur Clara Barton died at the age of 90. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Civil War volunteer nurse who founded the American Red Cross.

Her first patient was her brother after he fell from a rafter and doctors had lost all hope in his recovery. He had taught her to ride a horse. She learned math from her brother Stephen and learned piety from her parents Sarah and Stephen.

Quotes

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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

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The surest test of discipline is its absence.

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Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

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I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay.

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I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?