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Clara Barton: A Child's Biography
by Clara Barton
This biography of Clara Barton for children was excerpted from Mary Stoyell Stimpson's book, A Child's Book of American Biography (1915).
Add over one hundred years to the time reference in her story.
It was on the brightest, sunniest kind of a Christmas morning, nearly one hundred years ago, that Clara Barton was born, in the State of Massachusetts.
Besides the parents, there were two grown-up sisters and two big brothers to pet the new baby. There was plenty of love and plenty of money in the Barton household, so the child knew nothing but happiness.
Clara was a bright little thing.
Clara barton educationAs she grew old enough to walk and talk, she followed the family about, repeating all their words and phrases like a parrot. She was not sure as to the meaning of all these words, but she liked the sound of them. Her father, who had fought in the French and Indian wars, had a fondness for the rules and forms that are used among soldiers