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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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December 11, 2020
December 11, 2020

Wheldon, Cholera or Fable?

[COMMUNICATED.] Mr. Gallaher: — We have observed in the “Intelligencer and Alexandria Gazette,” of this week, a paragraph extracted from the “Argus,” printed in Easton, Pa., detailing a “remarkable circumstance,” based on the high authority of […]
August 8, 1833
June 13, 2026
June 13, 2026

Woman Killed By Cholera on Canal Line

From the Hagerstown Torch Light, Aug. 1.One death of cholera, occurred in town, on Sunday– a woman– from the line of the Canal. This is the third, and only the third death, that has occurred in […]
August 8, 1833
December 10, 2020
December 10, 2020

Progress of the Cholera

HAGERSTOWN, July 4The cholera is again on the increase along the line of the canal, in the neighborhood of Williamsport. On Tuesday, we learn that three deaths occurred below, six above, and one in the town, […]
July 11, 1833
December 10, 2020
December 10, 2020

Cholera on Canal Line

From the Hagerstown Torch Light of Thursday.A few cases of cholera have occurred during the last week, along the line of the canal, above and below Williamsport. We have head of three confirmed cases, which resulted […]
July 4, 1833
October 19, 2025
October 19, 2025

Ireland: Indictment Against News Publisher; Arrests in Kilkenny, White Cholera.

IRELAND.DUBLIN, May 8.– The indictment against the proprietor of the Pilot newspaper, for publishing Mr. O’Connell’s first letter to the Irish people, charges him with bringing the act of Legislative Union and the Irish Disturbance Bill […]
June 30, 1833
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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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