Clara Barton remains one of the most honored women in American history and is celebrated for her lifelong dedication to helping others. Her name became a household word, associated in the public mind with goodness and mercy. At 17, she became a teacher in her hometown of North Oxford, Massachusetts. While visiting a friend in Bordertown, New Jersey in 1852, Clara found many poor, school-age boys on the streets. Determined to help them, she started the first public school in Bordertown. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1854, and became a copyist for the U.S. Patent Office. Within a year she was promoted to clerk. On April 19, 1861, just weeks after the Civil War erupted, Confederate sympathizers attacked Massachusetts soldiers traveling through Baltimore, Maryland, killing four. The injured were taken to the unfinished U.S. Capital building, close to where Clara worked at the U.S. Patent Office. She rushed to help the wounded and was shocked to discover that some of the men were her former students.    Later on Clara was cradling the head of a wounded soldier at Antietam when a bullet passed through the sleeve of her dress and into his chest from shoulder to shoulder. She never mended that hole in her sleeve.  At the end of the Civil War, Clara founded the Missing Soldiers Office to help families locate their loved ones. Clara Barton was a woman who lived by her words, "You must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it."- words our Markethive founder live by.