notion to see a fountain for animals set up in Boston on Milk Street, where I have often seen the tired draft horses pulling heavy loads to the dock and having no place to drink, (www.angelfire.com, 5). The fountain was created after her death in 1887, at the age of 85. In response to her fountain, Whittier had a poem engraved at the fountain:Stranger and Traveler! Drink freely and bestow A kindly thought on her Who bade this fountain flow;Yet hath for it no claimSave as the ministerOf blessing in Gods name.(Wilson, Pg.330).Dorothea Dix spent her last years in the guest quarters of a state hospital she had helped found 35 years earlier in New Jersey. A good friend of hers, Dr. Nichols, also wrote, to Mr. Daniel Hake Tuke, after Dorotheas Death:Thus had died and been laid to rest in the most quiet, unostentatious way the most useful and distinguished woman America had yet produced, (Wilson, Pg. 342).This statement is also considered her epitaph (Thinkquest, 16)....
