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Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was a social activist who, from the early 1840s to well after the American Civil War lobbied almost every State's legislature to create asylums for the insane.
By the mid-1830s she became depressed. In England, she spent a year living on the estate of the Rathbone family, eminent Quaker reformers, where she recovered.
During the Civil War she moved to Washington, D.C., and attempted to set up a nursing service for soldiers. She became Superintendent of Union Army Nurses. After the War, she resumed her lobbying for the mentally ill, now by letter more often than in person.
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