Clara Barton

 

Joseph McCabe, in his Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers, says the following:
She was a farmer's daughter, a shy sensitive, slight little woman who worked so heroically amongst the wounded in the Civil War that she was called "the Angel of the Battlefield." General Miles said that she was "the greatest humanitarian the world had ever known."
The rest of her life was devoted t

o work for the Red Cross, which she introduced into America, and other reforms. The Dictionary of American Biography admits that "she was brought up in the Universalist Church but was never a Church member."
"It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind."
Clara Barton (teacher, patent clerk, nurse, humanitarian and the founder of the American Red Cross)