Dix, Dorothea
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Dorothea Dix Soundex Code D200
Wikipedia page about Dorothea Dix
Born Sunday, April 4, 1802, Hampden, Maine
Died Sunday, July 17, 1887 Trenton, New Jersey, (aged 85)
Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as the First Superintendent of Army Nurses.