FROM THERE TO HERE

1866 thru 1869 - 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