I received this on another list I belong to & thought maybe some one on this list might like to have this information > This listing comes from Judy Nordgren and the Rootsweb Mailing List. > Epidemics have always had a great influence on people and thus influencing, > as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people > disappearing from records can be traced to dying during an epidemic or > moving away from the affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the > United States are listed below: > 1657 Boston: Measles > 1687 Boston: Measles > 1690 New York: Yellow Fever > 1713 Boston: Measles > 1729 Boston: Measles > 1732-33 Worldwide: Influenza > 1738 South Carolina: Smallpox > 1739-40 Boston: Measles > 1747 Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania & South Carolina: Measles > 1759 North America (areas inhabited by white people): Measles > 1761-61 North America & West Indies: Influenza > 1772 North America: Measles > 1775 North America (especially hard in New England): Epidemic (unknown) > 1775-76 Worldwide: Influenza > 1781-82 Worldwide: Influenza (one of worst flu epidemics) > 1788 Philadelphia & New York: Measles > 1793 Vermont: Influenza and a "putrid fever" > 1793 Virginia: Influenza (kills 500 people in 5 counties in 4 weeks) > 1793 Philadelphia: Yellow fever (one of worst) > 1783 Delaware (Dover): "extremely fatal" bilious disorder > 1793 Pennsylvania (Harrisburg & Middletown): many unexplained deaths > 1794 Philadelphia: Yellow fever > 1796-97 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever > 1798 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) > 1803 New York: Yellow Fever > 1820-23 Nationwide: "fever" (starts on Schuylkill River, PA & spreads) > 1831-32 Nationwide: Asiatic Cholera (brought by English emigrants) > 1832 New York & other major cities: Cholera > 1837 Philadelphia: Typhus > 1841 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (especially severe in South) > 1847 New Orleans: Yellow Fever > 1847-48 Worldwide: Influenza > 1848-49 North America: Cholera > 1850 Nationwide: Yellow Fever > 1850-51 North America: Influenza > 1852 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (New Orleans: 8,000 die in summer) > 1855 Nationwide (many parts): Yellow Fever > 1857-59 Worldwide: Influenza (one of disease=92s greatest epidemics) > 1860-61 Pennsylvania: Smallpox > 1865-73 Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, = > & > Washington D.C.: a series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, > Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever > 1873-75 North America & Europe: Influenza > 1878 New Orleans: Yellow Fever (last great epidemic of disease) > 1885 Plymouth, PA: Typhoid > 1886: Jacksonville, Fl: Yellow Fever > 1918 Worldwide: Influenza (high point year) More people hospitalized in > World War I from Influenza than wounds. US Army training camps became > death camps 97with 80 percent death rate in some camps. > Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned: > 1833 Columbus, Ohio > 1834 New York City > 1849 New York > 1851 Coles Co., Illinois > 1851 The Great Plains > 1851 Missouri >