DIX,
Dorothea Lynde, philanthropist, born in Worcester, Massachusetts,
about 1794; died in Trenton, N.J., 19 July, 1887. After the death, in 1821, of
her father, a merchant in Boston, she established a school for girls in that
City. Hearing of the neglected condition of the convicts in the state prison,
she visited them, and became interested in the welfare of the unfortunate
classes, for whose elevation she labored until 1884, when. her health becoming
impaired, she gave up her school and visited Europe, having inherited from a
relative sufficient property to render her independent. She returned to Boston
in 1887 and devoted herself to investigating the condition of paupers, lunatics,
and prisoners, encouraged by her friend and pastor, Rev. Dr. Channing, of whose
children she had been governess. In this work she has visited every state of the
Union east of the Rocky Mountains, endeavoring to persuade legislatures to take
measures for the relief of the poor and wretched. She was especially influential
in procuring legislative action for the establishment of state lunatic asylums
in New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Illinois, Indiana, and other states.
In April,
1854, in consequence of her unwearied exertions and petitions that she presented
to congress in 1848 and 1850, a bill passed both houses appropriating 10,000,000
acres to the several states for the relief of the indigent insane : but the bill
was vetoed by President Pierce, on the ground that the general government had no
constitutional power to make such appropriations. During the civil war she was
superintendent of hospital nurses, having the entire control of their
appointment and assignment to duty. After its close she resumed her labors for
the insane. Miss Dix published anonymously "The Garland of Flora"
(Boston, 1829), and "Conversations about Common Things," "Alice
and Ruth," "Evening Hours," and other books for children; also,
" Prisons and Prison Discipline " (Boston, 1845); and a variety of
tracts for prisoners. She is also the author of many memorials to legislative
bodies on the subject of lunatic asylums and reports on philanthropic subjects.
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Dorothea Dix 1802-1887. A noted social reformer, Dix became the Union's
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DOROTHEA DIX. by Jenn Bumb. ... Marshall, HE (1937). Dorothea Dix, forgotten
Samaritan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ...
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