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Inated the Dix pear, once a favorite. Dr. Dix died in 1809, when
Dorothea was seven years old. Young as she was, he was among the most
vivid of her childhood memories and by far the pleasantest. She seems to
have been a favorite with him and it was his delight to take her in his
chaise on his rounds, talking playfully with her and listening to her
childish prattle. Joseph Dix, the father of Dorothea, is a vague and
shadowy memory. He seems to have had little of his father's energy or
good sense. Unstable in many of his ways, he lived a migratory life, "at
various spots in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, as well as in
Worcester and Boston, Mass." When Dorothea was born, he was living at
Hampden, Maine, adjoining his father's Dixmont properties, presumably as
his father's land agent. He probably tired of this occupation because it
interfered with his business. His business seems to have been religion.
He was a prolific author of religious literature. He was a
philanthropist after his kind, giving his time without stint to the
writing of religious tracts, and spending his money in publishing them,
with little benefit to the world and much detriment to his family. In
the stitching and pasting of these tracts, the whole household were
required to assist and it was against this irksome taskwork that
Dorothea, at the age of twelve, rebelled, running away from Worcester,
where the family then lived, and finding a refuge with her grandmother
in Boston. Dorothea afterwards educated her two brothers, one of whom
became a sea captain and the other a Boston merchant. Dorothea Dix was
created by her Maker, but she