Domestically in 1884 she helped in the floods on the Ohio river , provided Texas with food and supplies during the famine of 1887 and took workers to Illinois in 1888 after a tornado and that same year to Florida for the yellow fever epidemic . Within days after the Johnstown Flood in 1889 , she led her delegation of 50 doctors and nurses in response . In 1897 , responding to the humanitarian crisis in the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the Hamidian Massacres , Barton sailed to Constantinople and after long negotiations with Abdul Hamid II , opened the first American International Red Cross headquarters in the heart of Turkey . Barton herself traveled along with five other Red Cross expeditions to the Armenian provinces in the spring of 1896 , providing relief and humanitarian aid . Barton also worked in hospitals in Cuba in 1898 at the age of seventy-seven . Barton 's last field operation as President of the American Red Cross was helping victims of the Galveston hurricane in 1900 . The operation established an orphanage for children
Johnstown Flood
Johnstown Flood
Clara Barton