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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 ...
By 1878-79 Church had acquired considerable wealth. Familiar with the high death tolls from the 1873 yellow fever epidemic, he moved his family to safety outside the city during the even worse epidemic of 1878, as well as the following year. As the city was depopulated by the flight of 25,000 people during the 1878 epidemic and death toll of ...
Luke Pryor Blackburn (June 16, 1816 – September 14, 1887) was an American physician, philanthropist, and politician from Kentucky.He was elected the 28th governor of Kentucky, serving from 1879 to 1883.
A portrait of Carter c. 1870 (left), and the burial of yellow fever victims in Memphis, Tennessee, 1878 (right) Henry Rose Carter was born on August 25, 1852 at Clinton Plantation in Caroline County, Virginia .
The outbreak of yellow fever in Barcelona in 1821. The evolutionary origins of yellow fever are most likely African. [1] [2] Phylogenetic analyses indicate that the virus originated from East or Central Africa, with transmission between primates and humans, and spread from there to West Africa. [3]
Extensive yellow fever epidemics in the 1870s (1873, 1878 and 1879) devastated the city. In 1873 some 2,000 people died, the highest fatalities of any inland city. [31] Because of the severity of the 1873 epidemic, when yellow fever was diagnosed on August 5, 1878, more than 25,000 people left the city within two weeks. [31]
Yet, his John Dutton was on the funeral set and even in the elegant coffin to remind everyone of the moment's gravity, "Yellowstone" director an d executive producer Christina A. Voros tells USA ...
Charles Griffin, Union general in the American Civil War, died in 1867 at the age of 41 in Galveston, Texas, during an epidemic of yellow fever. [3] Charles Frederick Hartt, Canadian-American geologist, paleontologist and naturalist who specialized in the geology of Brazil, died of yellow fever in 1878 at the age of 38 in Rio de Janeiro.