Over the time in history, there was many people who helped create the history through over the times. One important person in history time was Dorothea Dix. Dorothea Dix once said “What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good in those around us.” This quote shows that Dorothea Dix was happy on the time she spent in making changes for the prisoner in prison. Dix was one of the important people to help change life of those people. Dorothea Dix was an important figure in American History because, she did her best and succeeded to help the life of others. She improved life for others that’s what makes her an important figure in American History she went out of her way to help others. Everyone has a early life/childhood as kid, so did Dorothea Dix. Dix was born on April 4,1802 in Hampden, Maine. She was the eldest of three children, her father was Joseph Dix and mother was Mary Bigelow. Dorothea Dix began teaching at the …show more content…
She did her best and went out of her way to help others. Dorothea Dix asked congress in 1848 for more than 12 million acres of land to help the mental ill as well as blind and death and they approved this in 1854. Dix went to Europe and she saw the huge difference between public hospitals and private hospitals, she recommended reforms for many countries and she met with Pope Pius IX. She ordered constructions for a new hospital for the mental ill. In 1856 Dix returned to United States, the civil war broke out in 1861, she volunteered to help and was the superintendent of nurses. She helped with the set up, training, managing supplies, and all those type of things. According to one of the sources it says, “She contracted malaria in 1870 and was forced to abandon aggressive traveling, although she continued to write, lobbying for her causes.” This meant shows that she goes out of her way to help those of mental ill and tries to make a improvement on