Dorothea Dix

Dorothea Dix died in her apartment in Trenton. She was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1850- Dix met with Vice President Fillmore. She initiated correspondence with President Fillmore on August 30.

1851- She landed a grant bill that got passed by the House, but was defeated in the Senate.

1852- Dix obtained congressional appropriation for the Army and Navy at St. Elizabeth's hospital in Washington.

1853- She carried a crusade to Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Sable Island.

1854- Her land grant bill was killed by President Pierce's veto on May.

1855- She campaigned in Scotland for the better treatment of the insane.

1856- She toured Italy and interceded with Pope Pious IX for the insane.

- She toured in Turkey, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, and Scandinavia through April and June

1857- She resumed her crusade for the insane in Pennsylvania and New york.

1861- Dix volunteered services to the War department and was appointed Superintendent of Army nurses

1866- Dix raised money to construct a memorial in Hampton, Virginia

1867- Dix returned to her mission for the insane

Dorothea Lynde Dix was born on April 4. She was one out of three children born to Joseph Dix and Mary Bigelow.

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Dix made her last tour of the South. She inspected hospitals in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. She accepted a apartment in the Trenton State hospital.

1830- Dix served as governess for children of William Ellery Channing at St. Croix, Virgin Islands.

1841- She taught Sunday School lesson to prisoners in East Cambridge House of Correction

1842- She toured Massachusetts, inspecting conditions of the insane in almshouses and jails.

1843- She released a memorial to the state legislature on the conditions of the insane.

1844- She exposed maltreatment of the insane in Rhode Island.

1845- She memorialized legislature of New Jersey; Trenton State Hospital, her "first-born child."

---- Launched campaigns in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, and Pennsylvania...

1846- She carried a campaign into the South: New Orleans, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee.

1848- She took her campaign to Washington, seeking a federal land grant to hospitals for the insane.

1849- She had additional campaigns in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, and North Carolina.