Clara Barton is a very important health pioneer. Clara Barton founded the Red Cross in America which is still in operation today. She has overcome many obstacles throughout her life and many people told her she couldn't do it. She is an inspiration to everyone. She grew up and her life began in North Oxford, Massachusetts, she was inspired by Florence Nightingale, she helped during and after wars, she helped with her ailing family and fought her own depression, she founded the Red Cross after much hard work and even after all that he resigned and still made an impact (Cobb, 2014). Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821 (Cobb, 2014). Her full name is Clarissa Harlowe Barton and she grew up in North Oxford, Massachusetts (Cobb, 2014). When she was young she was constantly found helping and caring for others, whether it was her brothers and sisters or neighbors according to the Barton article, Clara. She was taught to read by her sisters and learned to read from her brother (Cobb, 2014). Clara was also a teacher for a certain period. He taught in a town called Bordentown, New Jersey, and increased enrollment from six students to six hundred students by offering to teach for free so that parents would not have to pay to send their children to school. She probably would have continued teaching if it weren't for the fact that when the city chose a principal, they ignored her and chose a male. Then she resigns from school ("Clara Barton Biography", 2014). She subsequently worked for a time as a clerk in Washington, D.C. at the Patent Office until harassment and the new presidency left her without a job ("Facts on Blood and"). Barton began helping the wounded in 1861 when he learned that no one had made any kind of preparation for the wounded. He collected...... half of the document ...... odwin, J. (2013 Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography, excerpted from http:). //www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/clarabarton.htmlHenneberger, M. (2012, April 6), Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross, fought the "thin black snakes" of depression by taking action, The Washington Post from http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/clara-bartons-enemy-depression/2012/04/04/gIQAdryXzS_story.htmlMorrow, L. (1996 Claras Policy Review, 75), 64 Retrieved from http ://ehis.ebscohost.com.lib.kaplan.edu/eds/detail?vid=2&sid=b864c139-aae2-404c-97d8-bb0f08e189b6@sessionmgr4001&hid=4213&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU=ReferencesSchmidt, C. (2004) . In our community: a vision followed by thousands. Lippincott's Nursing Center.com,104(8), 36-37. Retrieved from http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/JournalArticle?Article_ID=517471