F ROM T HERE TO H ERE

 1866 thru 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