Keywords: Typhoid fever
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
Item 28360
George W. Pierce obituary, Portland, 1835
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1835 Location: Portland 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.
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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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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould
"The fever did not break for 31 days. When he recovered, he found out that his partner in the butcher business did not think he would recover and took…"
