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Laborers

Explore the lives of laborers in the Harpers Ferry region and Jefferson County, WV, including workmen connected to quarries, transportation and infrastructure, and local industry.

This topic appears in 86 indexed records between 1831 and 1960.
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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
August 3, 2023
August 3, 2023

Cholera Surrounding Harpers Ferry

THE CHOLERA.Health of the City.– The deaths in this city last week were only SEVENTEEN, one of which was of malignant Cholera.– Boston Gaz.— In another column we publish the weekly report, which has been so […]
September 7, 1832
December 11, 2020
December 11, 2020

Lawrence Murphy, death.

In this town [Charles Town], on Friday morning last, of an illness of 36 hours, Mr. Lawrence Murphy, a native of Ireland, aged about 27 years. He was a stranger here, and had been engaged upon […]
September 6, 1832
August 2, 2023
August 2, 2023

Cholera; Irish Laborers suffering in Harpers Ferry

THE CHOLERA. In Baltimore the deaths by cholera from the 23d to the 30th ult, inclusive, were 99. The disease does not excite any alarm, and indeed there is no perceptible change in the pursuits of […]
September 1, 1832
June 11, 2026
June 11, 2026

Farmers Decline Use of Spiritous Liquor for Laborers; See profit increase.

We learn, with pleasure, that many farmers of this county cut their last crop of grain without using a drop of spiritous liquor in their fields.— They gave their hands 12 1/2 cents per day more […]
July 19, 1832
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Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1830s 29 records
1860s 7 records
1840s 7 records
1900s 6 records
1910s 6 records
1850s 5 records

Frequently Associated Families

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

Welsh
4 records
Moore
2 records
Strider
2 records
Higgins
2 records
Keller
2 records
Eichelberger
2 records
Giffin
2 records
Houser
2 records
Cook
2 records
Smith
2 records
Williams
2 records
Willis
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