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Epidemics

Cholera and other epidemics and health concerns in and around Harpers Ferry and Jefferson County, WV, chronicling the region’s public health history.

This topic appears in 80 indexed records between 1821 and 1919.
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1919 Latest Record
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June 11, 2026
June 11, 2026

One Case of Cholera in CTown; Editors Refute Harpers Ferry Cholera counts.

After our last paper was put to press, a case of Cholera occurred in town, which proved fatal.– The subject was an intemperate old woman who had formerly been in the poor-house, and who by her […]
September 20, 1832
June 11, 2026
June 11, 2026

Cholera among Laborers in Washington Co., MD.

From the Hagerstown Free Press, Sept. 11. In Washington county the Cholera has been fatal in a great many cases– in the lower part of the county, the canal laborers are sickening and dying daily. In […]
September 20, 1832
December 10, 2020
December 10, 2020

Cholera

Many attempts have been made to give some rational explanation of the cause of pestilential cholera. I will not pretend to say that I can. My object is simply to give a frank expression of my […]
September 13, 1832
December 11, 2020
December 11, 2020

Jeff Co. Cholera Appears

We are well aware of the excitement which the occurrence of a few cases of Cholera will ere-[?]te in our neighborhood, and of the thousand rumors likely to grow out of them, and therefore feel it […]
September 13, 1832
November 7, 2023
November 7, 2023

Obit: John Lamon

On Tuesday last, in the 52d year of his age, of the prevailing epidemic, Mr. JOHN LAMON, of this place. The deceased had been laboring under general debility for some months, but was attending to his […]
September 13, 1832
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Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1830s 34 records
1850s 13 records
1910s 12 records
1820s 6 records
1890s 4 records
1880s 3 records

Frequently Associated Families

These surnames most commonly appear alongside the topic "Epidemics" across historical collections.

Carroll
3 records
Moler
3 records
Houser
3 records
Miller
3 records
Flanagan
3 records
Bennett
2 records
Entler
2 records
Griggs
2 records
Harper
2 records
Markle
2 records
Shutt
2 records
Turner
2 records
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