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Show CLARA BARTON WAS FIRST CLERK Washington. Feb IC Clara Barton, the famous Clil War nurse, founder of the American National Red Cross society, was the first woman employed in the interior department Indicate ords of the department indicate strongly that Miss Barton is entitled to the distinction The interior department was established estab-lished on March 3. 1S49 Five years later Miss Barton was appointed to a clerical position from a New England village upon tho recommendations of a Massachusetts congressman. When the same question arose In 187C, it is said. Miss Birton laid claim to tho honor and department records Indicate that her claim was accepted as sound. |