1803 New York had Yellow Fever
1820-3 Nationwide “Fever” – started Schuylkill River and spread
1831-2 Nationwide Asiatic Cholera: brought by English emigrants
1832 NY City and other major cities had Cholera
1833 Columbus, OH had Cholera
1834 New York City Cholera
1837 Philadelphia had Typhus
1841 Nationwide Yellow Fever: especially severe in the south
1847 New Orleans had Yellow Fever
1847-8 Worldwide Influenza
1848-9 North America had Cholera
1849 New York had Cholera
1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever
1850 Alabama, New York had Cholera
1850-1 North America Influenza
1851 Coles Co., IL, The Great Plains,and Missouri had Cholera
1852 Nationwide Yellow Fever: with some 8,000 who died in New Orleans
1855 Nationwide Yellow Fever
1857-9 Worldwide Influenza: one of the greatest epidemics
1860-1 Pennsylvania had Smallpox
1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC had Smallpox and Cholera along with a series of recurring epidemics of; Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever.
1873-5 North America and Europe Influenza
1878 New Orleans Yellow Fever: last great epidemic
1885 Plymouth, PA had Typhoid
1886 Jacksonville, FL had Yellow Fever
Pandemics and Your Ancestors – Part I
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