Dorothea Lynde Dix

Name

Dorothea Lynde Dix

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First Name

Dorothea

Additional Names

Lynde

Last Name

Dix

Born

4 April 1802

Died

17 July 1887

Profession

Nurse (Superintendent of Army Nurses for the Union during the Civil War)
Reform of Treatment for the Mentally Ill
Helped obtain a pardon for Daniel Drayton and Edward Sayres, who had been convicted for their roles in The Pearl incident, a non-violent attempt to liberate enslaved people in Washington D.C.

Note

George Shepard Burleigh references her work in his poem "The Maniac"
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Associated Causes

Abolition