Keywords: Typhoid
Item 104898
Sarah Tibbetts to John Tibbetts with news of home, Westport Island, 1895
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1895-06-10 Location: Westport Island Media: Ink on paper
Item 66035
Samuel B. Hunter, 7th Maine, to Alonzo Garcelon, 1862
Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1862 Media: Ink on paper
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Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon
Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.
Exhibit
Maine's frozen rivers and lakes provided an economic opportunity. The state shipped thousands of tons of ice to ports along the East Coast and to the West Indies that workers had cut and packed in sawdust for shipment or later use.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Mabelle Martin's casket, Bangor, 1899
"… child of John and Clara Martin of Bangor, died of typhoid fever on March 25, 1899. Her brother Frank died shortly after birth in 1862, brother…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924
"… much sickness and mortality from dysentery and typhoid. The following year fire destroyed most of the prison, which started in a stovepipe in the…"
