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Born
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Started elementary school in her grandmother's house
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Published Conversations on Common Things: Or Guide to Knowledge
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Suffered from illness and suffered from a mental breakdown
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Met prison reformer Elizabeth Fry; grandmother died
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Taught Sunday School to prisoners in East Cambridge
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Asked Congress to grant more than 12 million acres of land
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President Franklin Pierced vetoed it.
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Civil War Nurse
In 1861, she went into the civil war as a nurse and was soon appointed to organize the outfit union army hospitals and to oversee the vast nursing staff. -
Civil War started
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Was ousted from her position and stripped of her authority; sent home.
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Raised money to construct soldier memorial at Hampton, Virginia.
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Women's first suffrage law passed
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Contracted Malaria; sent to the hospital she had founded 40 years earlier.
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Died
