Mabel Boardman
| 1905 | Clara Barton forms the National First Aid Society |
| 1907 | Clara Barton publishes The Story of My Childhood |
At her desk in Glen Echo
| 1909 | William Howard Taft becomes President |
| 1912 | Clara Barton dies April 12 at Glen Echo at age 90 |
| 1915 | President Woodrow Wilson lays cornerstone for American National Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C. |
| 1963 | Friends of Clara Barton, Inc., purchases house at Glen Echo |
| 1974 | The U.S. Congress establishes on October 26 Clara Barton National Historic Site |
| 1975 | National Park Service assumes responsibility for Clara Barton National Historic Site |
The Professional Angel
Clara Barton and Red Cross workers in Tampa, Florida, await transportation to return to Cuba in 1898.
Square as a Brick
As a woman of 87, Clara Barton remembered “nothing but fear” when she looked back to her childhood. She portrayed herself as an introspective, insecure child, too timid to express her thoughts to others. Yet this girl who felt terror in all new situations possessed the qualities that enabled her to overcome that fear, indeed to become the woman most universally acclaimed as courageous in American history.