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The entire Mississippi River Valley from St. Louis south was affected, and tens of thousands fled the stricken cities of New Orleans, Vicksburg, and Memphis.The epidemic in the Lower Mississippi Valley also greatly affected trade in the region, with orders of steamboats to be tied up in order to reduce the amount of travel along the Mississippi River, railroad lines were halted, and all the ...
Memphis Post begins publication. Historic aerial view of Memphis (1870) 1868 – Peabody Hotel in business. [5] 1870 Goldsmith's store in business. Population: 40,226. [9] [2] 1871 LeMoyne Normal Institute [12] and College of Christian Brothers [2] established. St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral consecrated. 1873 – Yellow fever epidemic. [2]
In the 1870s, a series of yellow fever epidemics devastated Memphis, with the disease carried by river passengers traveling by ships along the waterways. During the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878, more than 5,000 people were listed in the official register of deaths between July 26 and November 27.
1847 Southern United States yellow fever epidemic ... 1870–1875 Europe Smallpox: 500,000 [166] ... 1968–1970 Worldwide
The Yellow Fever Memorial was built in 1856 in Laurel Hill Cemetery to honor the Philadelphia "Doctors, Druggists and Nurses" who helped fight the epidemic in Portsmouth, Virginia [24] The steamship, Benjamin Franklin sailing from Saint Thomas in the West Indies and carrying persons infected with the virus arrived in Hampton Roads in ...
1869–1870 John Johnson: 1870–1874 John Loague: 1874–1876 John R. Flippin: 1876–1879 (None) 1879–1895 As a result of a yellow fever epidemic in 1879, Memphis lost so much of its population that it was disincorporated and was not rechartered until 1895. This accounts for the absence of a mayor during the period 1879–1893.
A number of deadly epidemics swept though the region during this time, including yellow fever, which killed more than one-tenth of Memphis' residents in 1878 and caused the city to temporarily lose its charter. [17] [18] Many rural West Tennesseans relocated to Memphis and other cities during the latter 19th century. While the region remained ...
Nursing patients during the 1873 and 1878 Yellow fever epidemics in Memphis, Tennessee Annie Cook (c. 1840 – September 11, 1878) was a madam who converted her Memphis, Tennessee brothel into a hospital and nursed patients suffering during the Yellow fever epidemics of 1873 and 1878. [ 1 ]