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Before Hampden was invaded by the British the Dix's Family moved to Vermont because the town of Hampden was invaded by the British in the War of 1812.
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After leaving home to live with family members she started teaching school to elementary age kids at the age of 14.
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In 1819 Dorothea Dix moved back to Boston and started a girls school for girls and poor girls could attend to.
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Dorothea Dix taught two classes in the Dix Mansion from 1822-1836.
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Dorothea Dix was sick and tired and her doctor told her to go to England to start feeling better.
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Dorothea Dix grandmother died and she had to return home.
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Dorothea Dix started volunteering at the jail for women and was upset at how prisoners were being treated.
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Presented her report and was advocate for the deaf and blind.
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Traveled to Illinois to study mental illness.
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Dorothea Dix had her first child during this year.
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Volunteered her services , was named Superintendent of Nurses.
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Dorothea Dix was 85 years old when she died. She died in a New Jersey Hospital.
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