Summarizes the life of Clara Barton: teacher, accountant, seamtress, laundress, cook, dairy-maid, Patent Office Clerk, Civil War nurse, searcher for missing men after that war (a business now assumed in some countries by the Red Cross), lecturer, originator of the plan ... for rehabilitating Franco-Prussian War sufferers, founder of the American Red Cross, founder of the First Aid Department of the American National Red Cross, ... and author.