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aug 21, 1865 - Clara Barton

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A pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk. Nursing education was not very formalized at that time and she did not attend nursing school, so she provided self-taught nursing care.

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aug 21, 1865
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~ 160 years ago

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