Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington Public Library, 1916

"… long since been removed, due to the Dutch elm disease, which was widespread in mid-20th century."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Second Generation & Permanent Structures at Asticou

"… young by current standards and succumbed to diseases of the era; including one son, Samuel Tyler Savage (1841-1865), a soldier of Union Army during…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"… either killed or severely wounded and 160 died of disease. Around 180 soldiers died total. Simon G. Jerrard was the commander of the 22nd Maine and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"1850Abbe Museum With the Europeans came new diseases and colonial wars. After 150 years of these conflicts, barely 1,000 Wabanaki men, women, and…"

Early Maine Photography - War

"… Maine Regiment on August 14, 1862, and died of disease in Maryland three and a half months later. James Davis of the 9th Maine Regiment, ca."

Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy

"… Hospital was founded to treat patients with diseases requiring surgery, and had 50 beds by 1918."

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"This Spanish Influenza is an awful disease…” Historians still debate where it began. The pandemic obtained the name “Spanish Influenza” because the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… the Abenakis, had been decimated by European disease. The original charter of Blue Hill stipulated that shares of land were to be set aside for a…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 1 of 2

"Some examples of these diseases would be smallpox, yellow fever, and cholera. The hospital staff did their best to cure as many patients as possible…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"… I get to see them again? Would I get some sort of disease or illness that would prevent me from going further? Would the disease kill me…"

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"In earlier times, if someone had an internal disease, say they had cancer, doctors would not know how to treat them."

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"… of husbands, brothers and sons to shipwreck, disease or accident. Women of the community were determined that women who were widowed by such events…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"… many of these trees had succumbed to Dutch elm disease, a blight that nearly decimated every tree of this species throughout the northeast."

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"There was a lot of disease, not enough food or adequate medical care. Horton reported regularly suffering from diarrhea and dehydration."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"Dixfield was not exempt from sickness or disease during its early days. In 2010 the Dixfield Historical Society acquired over thirty diaries from the…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1620 to 1820: New England's Great Secret

"As their population decreased in the face of disease and war, the bottle became a growing problem for many Native Americans."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders

"… medical authorities to describe alcoholism as a disease. In 1864, he opened America's first "inebriate asylum" in Binghamton, New York, to help…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… and the specific types which carried the disease Stevens was able to make the decision to clear the work sites for two hundred yards around of all…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 2 of 2

"… Endocrine and Nutrition Center, Digestive Diseases Treatment, Eastern Maine Inpatient Care, Emergency Services, EMMC Lung Cancer Screening Program…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"The first Europeans brought epidemic diseases such as influenza, smallpox, and diphtheria. These contagions swept through native societies in waves…"

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"The men were catching various diseases, like rheumatism, poisoning from the water, and the flux. Benedict Arnold thought that they would be almost…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"He returned to Bath and died from disease. Another person from Bath who wrote letters to home was William H. Fog."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"… 1135 Washington Street due to a life-threatening disease at age 82. As previously stated, George Davenport requested in his will that the City Hall…"