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

Note

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

Abolition