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Hannah B. Chickering
Hannah B. Chickering (July 29, 1817 – July 3, 1879) was a prison reformer in the late 1800s, who worked to establish separate prisons for female inmates in Massachusetts and founded the "Temporary Asylum for discharged female prisoners" which later became known as the "Dedham Temporary Home for Women and Children," which operated between 1864-1969 in Dedham, MA.
Early life.
Born on July 29, 1817, in Dedham, Massachusetts, Chickering was the youngest of seven children
moved back to Dedham, Massachusetts where she spent her days caring for the ill, it was during this time when she decided that her life's work should be toward promoting the good in other people. In "Recollections of Hannah B. Chickering," Sarah E. Dexter described Chickering as a woman with "...a strong element of self-sacrifice united to the utmost fidelity to duty. Her question was always, What ought I to do?" Chickering would discover the answer a few years later while on a return visit