Dorothea Lynde Dix was born on April 4th, 1802 in Hampden, Maine. In that particular time of her life, she would not have had any knowledge of the fact that she would one day have a life changing impact in her time period and our world today.
Dix had a love for teaching. She had strong desires to help girls learn and grow more with intelligence. At the age of twelve, she moved to Boston with her grandmother and then to Worcester, Massachusetts with her aunt at the age of fourteen. In order to fulfill her desire to teach, she founded the Dix Mansion, a school for girls, along with a charity school that allowed poor girls to get an education for free. She continued teaching by volunteering at the East Cambridge Jail. Using her father’s religious influence, she taught a Sunday school class for the women that were held imprisoned there.
Although Dix loved preaching to the women in the prison, she often noticed that some of the chambers in the prison didn’t have any heat and that the prisoners …show more content…
As administrator of ladies medical attendants, she was the main lady to serve in such a high limit in a governmentally appointed part. Of course, she wasn’t exactly what was known as the best help during the war due to the fact that her administrative skills weren’t strongly needed. By the fall of 1863, following quite a while of diligent work and weariness, she was expelled from her position and sent home.
In 1881, she acknowledged an apartment at the Trenton New Jersey State Hospital she herself had established. After six years, July 17, 1887, at 85 years old, Dorothea Dix passed away of what her doctor called claimed was "ossification of the arterial membrane". She was later covered in the Mount Auburn Cemetery close to Boston with the least difficult of memorial
Dix had a love for teaching. She had strong desires to help girls learn and grow more with intelligence. At the age of twelve, she moved to Boston with her grandmother and then to Worcester, Massachusetts with her aunt at the age of fourteen. In order to fulfill her desire to teach, she founded the Dix Mansion, a school for girls, along with a charity school that allowed poor girls to get an education for free. She continued teaching by volunteering at the East Cambridge Jail. Using her father’s religious influence, she taught a Sunday school class for the women that were held imprisoned there.
Although Dix loved preaching to the women in the prison, she often noticed that some of the chambers in the prison didn’t have any heat and that the prisoners …show more content…
As administrator of ladies medical attendants, she was the main lady to serve in such a high limit in a governmentally appointed part. Of course, she wasn’t exactly what was known as the best help during the war due to the fact that her administrative skills weren’t strongly needed. By the fall of 1863, following quite a while of diligent work and weariness, she was expelled from her position and sent home.
In 1881, she acknowledged an apartment at the Trenton New Jersey State Hospital she herself had established. After six years, July 17, 1887, at 85 years old, Dorothea Dix passed away of what her doctor called claimed was "ossification of the arterial membrane". She was later covered in the Mount Auburn Cemetery close to Boston with the least difficult of memorial