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Dorothea Dix

By KMiller22

  • Born

  • Started elementary school in her grandmother's house

  • Published Conversations on Common Things: Or Guide to Knowledge

    Published Conversations on Common Things: Or Guide to Knowledge

  • Suffered from illness and suffered from a mental breakdown

  • Met prison reformer Elizabeth Fry; grandmother died

    Met prison reformer Elizabeth Fry; grandmother died

  • Taught Sunday School to prisoners in East Cambridge

    Taught Sunday School to prisoners in East Cambridge

  • Asked Congress to grant more than 12 million acres of land

  • President Franklin Pierced vetoed it.

    President Franklin Pierced vetoed it.

  • Civil War Nurse

    Civil War Nurse

    In 1861, she went into the civil war as a nurse and was soon appointed to organize the outfit union army hospitals and to oversee the vast nursing staff.
  • Civil War started

    Civil War started

  • Was ousted from her position and stripped of her authority; sent home.

  • Raised money to construct soldier memorial at Hampton, Virginia.

  • Women's first suffrage law passed

    Women's first suffrage law passed

  • Contracted Malaria; sent to the hospital she had founded 40 years earlier.

  • Died

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