The 1849 Cholera Outbreak in Jefferson City by Gary Elliott

Author:Gary Elliott [Elliott, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, General
ISBN: 9781467148054
Google: 4ysEEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2021-01-25T03:38:12+00:00

It had been said that men from all walks of life helped with caring for the cholera victims. In 1849, Thomas Lawson Price was elected the eighth lieutenant governor of Missouri. Previously, he had been chosen as the first mayor of the City of Jefferson. He was known to have been involved in caring for the sick.

Over the next several months, there were numerous accounts of other individuals dying of the cholera in the area. Gaining an accurate account of the number of victims is virtually impossible, as many deaths were not reported through the newspapers. The cholera appears to have reached the area by traveling up the Mississippi River to St. Louis and then up the Missouri River. We have the following report: “The steamboat Timour [No. 2] carried cholera to Jefferson City later in 1849. It broke out in the village of Westphalia that summer, taking the lives of one-third of the population.”149

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