Clara Barton

Brief Life History of Clara

When Clara Barton was born about 1848, in Indiana, United States, her father, Isaac Burton, was 32 and her mother, Charlotte Ford, was 24. She had at least 1 son with Eugene Everett Darrow. She lived in Fort Collins, Larimer, Colorado, United States in 1910 and Larimer, Colorado, United States in 1920. She died on 11 November 1929, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 82.

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Family Time Line

Eugene Everett Darrow
1846–1923
Clara Barton
about 1848–1929
Earl B Darrow
1889–1965

Sources (7)

  • Clara Darrow, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Clara Darrow - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Clara Darrow
  • Clara Barton Darrow, "New Mexico Deaths, 1889-1945"

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World Events (8)

1851 · Constitution of 1851

Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.

1854 · The Creation of the Republican Party

A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim that the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.

Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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