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Dorothea Dix (1802)close

The noted Civil Rights Reformer was born in Hampden, Maine. Dix became the Union's Superintendent of Female Nurses during the Civil War after spending more than 20 years working for improved treatment of mentally ill patients and for better prison conditions.

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