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This account chronicles Clara Barton's efforts from 1866 to 1881, highlighting her correspondence with families of missing U.S. Army soldiers and her travels to Europe during the Franco-Prussian War. Committed to humanitarian causes, Barton petitioned the International Red Cross and worked to gain public and presidential support for the adoption of the Geneva Treaty in the U.S. Her dedication culminated in the first national meeting of the American Red Cross in 1881, leading to the establishment of local societies and her presidency, which lasted over two decades.
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1866 thru 1869 - Office of Correspondence with Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army
1869 – Traveled to Europe • Franco-Prussian War
1873 – Returned to America • Petitioned International Red Cross HQ in Geneva • “win public support” • “gain the President’s active support” • “secure the adoption of the Geneva Treaty by the United States Senate”
May 21, 1881 – First national meeting of the Association of the American Red Cross • August 22, 1881 – First local society of the American Red Cross established in Dansville, NY
First response • 5,000 people displaced by forest fire in Michigan
March 16, 1882 – Senate ratified Treaty of the Geneva Convention • Clara Barton became first president of the American Red Cross…for the next 23 years
