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She was born in Hampden,Maine
Her parent where Joseph Dix and Mary Bigelow -
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She moved to her gandmothers house because she couldn't stand her abusive parents anymore.
After she moved to her gandmother's she was sent to her great aunt. -
She began to teach,in the fall, at the age of 14.
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She returned to Boston and continued to teach.
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She founded Dix Mansion, a school for young ladies.
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She published Converstions on Common Things, her most famous published book.
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She published:
- Ten Short stories for Children(1827)
- Meditations for Private Hours(1828)
- The Garlandof Flora(1829)
- The Pearl or Affection's Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present(1829) -
She began to teach Sunday school to East Camridge Jail. Righ after she saw tha horrible conditions the prisoner where going though she started to travel the country and document the contitions of the prisons and in force changes.
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She asked congress to grant more than 12 million acres of land to be used for the mentally ill, the blind, and the deaf.
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President franklin Pierce votoed the bill right after congress aproved it. After it was vetoed she went to Europe to recommend reforms.
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She returnes to the United States after she travel though Europe.
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She volunteers her services and was named superintendent of nurses, during the Civil War.
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She contracted malaria but she still continued to write for her causes.
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She successfully encouraged Japan to build a hospital for the mentally ill.
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She died in Trenton, New Jersey. In the hospital she founded 40 years earlier.
