List of Epidemics

Partial List of Epidemics

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-CT, NY, PA, SC-Measles

1759-North America-Measles

1761-North America and West Indies-Influenza

1772-North America-Measles

1775-N. America NE-Unknown epidemic

1775-76-Worldwide- Influenza (one of the worst epidemics)

1783-Dover, DE- Bilious Disorder (extremely fatal)

1788-Philadelphia and New York-Measles

1793-Vermont-A “Putrid” fever and Influenza

1793-VA-Influenza (killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks)

1793-Philadelphia- Yellow Fever (one of the worst epidemics)

1793-Harrisburg, PA-Unknown (many unexplained mysterious deaths)

1793-Middletown, PA-Unknown (many unexplained mysterious deaths)

1794-Philadelphia, PA-Yellow Fever

1796-97-Philadelphia, PA-Yellow Fever

1798-Philadelphia, PA-Yellow Fever (one of the worst)

1803-New York-Yellow Fever

1820-23-Nationwide-”Fever” (starts near the Schuylkill River)

1831-32-Nationwide-Cholera (English emigrants brought)

1832-NY City and other major cities-Cholera

1837-Philadelphia-Typhus

1841-Nationwide-Yellow Fever (worst in the 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 deaths)

1855-Nationwide-Yellow Fever

1857-59-Worldwide- Influenza (one of the greatest epidemics)

1860-61-Pennsylvania-Smallpox

1865-73-Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC-Smallpox, Cholera, series of recurring epidemics of: Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever

1873-5-North America and Europe-Influenza

1878-New Orleans-Yellow Fever (last great epidemic)

1885-Plymouth, PA-Typhoid

1886-Jacksonville, FL-Yellow Fever

1918-Worldwide-Influenza

Early 1800′s Native American Tribes

I have done quite a bit of Native American research over the past several years and when I first started I knew nothing about the names, location or the number of tribes that originally existed. Since then I have compiled listings of the tribes from various books. In addition to purchasing a small 8 x 10 map of the U.S. that shows where all the tribes were located. This map has been an enormous help. Here is a listing of the tribes that I have found. I’m sure that there probably many more tribes that I do not have listed and I apologize for their exclusion. If you know of others that I do not have, please let me know.

North America Native Tribes by Area, circa, early to mid 1800′s

Northeast

Abenaki, Algonkin, Beothuk, Cayuga, Chippewa (Ojibway), Erie, Fox, Huron, Illinois, Iroquois, Kickapoo, Lenni Lanape (Delaware), Mahican, Malecite, Mascouten, Massachuset, Mattabesic, Menominee, Metoac, Miami, Micmac, Mohawk, Mohegan, Montagnais, Montauk, Nanticoke, Narragansett, Nauset, Neutral, Nipissing, Nipmuc, Onondaga, Oneida, Ottawa, Passamaquoddy, Pennacook, Penobscot, Pequot, Pocumtuck, Potawatomi, Sac, Seneca, Shawnee, Susquehannock, Tionontati, Tobacco, Tuscarora, Wampanoag, Wappinger, Wenro, Winnebago

Southeast

Acolapissa, Ais, Alabama, Algonquin, Apalachee, Atakapa, Bayougoula, Biloxi, Calusa, Catawba, Chakchiuma, Chatot, Cherokee, Chesapeake, Chickasaw, Chitamacha, Choctaw, Coushatta, Creek, Cusabo, Eno, Gaucata, Guale, Hitchiti, Houma, Jeaga, Karankawa, Lumbee, Miccosukee, Mobile, Monacan, Napochi, Nappissa, Natchez, Ofo, Powhatan, Quapaw, Seminole, Siouan, Sugeree, Tekesta, Teyesta, Timucua, Tocobaga, Tohome, Tunica, Tuskegee, Tutelo, Wateree, Woccon, Yamasee, Yazoo, Yuchi

Northwest

Alsea, Bella Bella, Calapuya, Cathlament, Chehalis, Chimakum, Chetco, Chillucktittequaw, Chinook, Clackamas, Clatskani, Clatsop, Coast Salishans, Coos, Cowich, Cowlitz, Eyak, Gitksan, Haida, Haisla, Heiltsuk, Hoh,Kalapuya, Klallam, Kwakiutl, Kwalhioqua, Lushootseed, Makah, Multomah, Nisga’a, Nootka, Oynut, Ozette, Queets, Quileute, Quinault, Siletz, Siuslaw, Taidhapam, Takelma, Tillamook, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Tututni, Umpqua, Yakonan, Yaquina

Southwest

Apache, Chiricahua (Apache), Coahuiltecan, Cocopah, Halchidhoma, Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapi, Jano, Jicarilla (Apache), Jumano, Karankawa, Keres, Manso, Maricopa, Mimbreno (Apache), Mescalero (Apache), Mojave, Navajo, Opata, Pai, Papago, Pecos, Pima, Piro, Pueblo, Tiwa, Tewa, Towa (Jemez), Walapai, Yavapai, Yaqui, Yavapai, Yuma (Quechan), Zuni

Plains

Arapaho, Arikara, Assiniboine, Bidai, Blackfoot, Blood, Caddo, Cheyenne, Comanche, Cree, Crow, Dakota, Gros Ventre, Hidatsa, Iowa, Kaw(Kansa), Kichai, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Mandan, Metis, Missouri, Nakota, Omaha, Osage, Oto, Pawnee, Piegan, Plains Ojibway, Ponca, Quapaw,Santee, Sarcee, Sutai, Tawakoni, Teton, Tonkawa, Wichita, Yanktona (Sioux)

Plateau

Carrier, Cayuse, Couer D”Alene, Columbia, Colville, Dock-Spus, Eneeshur, Flathead, Kalispel, Kawachkin, Kittital, Klamath, Klickitat, Kootenay, Kosith, Lake, Lillooet, Methow, Modac, Molala, Nez Perce, Nicola, Ntlakyapamuk, Okanagan, Palouse, Sanpoil, Shuswap, Sinkiuse, Spokane, Tenino, Thompson, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Wasco, Wauyukma,, Wenatchee, Wishram, Wyampum, Yakima

California

Achomawi, Atsugewi, Cahuilla, Cahto, Chimariko, Chilula, Chumash, Costanoan, Cupeno, Diegueno, Esselen, Gabrielino, Hoopa, Karok, Kawaiisu, Kitanemuk, Konkow, Lassik, Luiseno, Maidu, Mattole, Mission, Miwok, Monache, Mono, Nisenan, Nomlaki, Nongatl, Patwin, Pomo, Salinas, Serrano, Shasta, Sinkyone, Tolowa, Tubatulabal, Wailaki, Wappo, Whilkut, Wintun, Wiyot, Yaha, Yokuts, Yuki, Yuman, Yurok

Great Basin

Bannock, Chemehuevi, Mono, Paiute, Panamint, Sheepeater, Shoshone, Ute, Washo

Artic & Subarctic

Ahtena, Aleut, Beaver, Beothuk, Carrier, Chilcotin, Chipewyan, Ojibway(Chippewa), Cree, Dogrib, Hare Ingalik, , Inuit, Koyukon, Kutchin,Montagnais, Nahane, Naskapi, Sekani, Slave, Tahltan, Tsetsaut, Tutchone, Tanain

This listing is compiled from several sources and have tried to include all the Tribes and to check spelling, but if you find an error or omission, please let me know. Thanks.

Victor Joseph Misson

Victor Joseph Misson was a son of Phillip and Theresa (Everett) Misson. He was born September 13, 1833 in Charleroi, Belgium and died February 20, 1928 in Youngstown, Mahoning Co., Ohio. He studied art at the University in Charleroi and was an artist and interior decorator. He gained prominence in artistic circles in Belgium before he was thirty years of age. His early life was devoted to religious art and many prominent churches in Europe and Philadelphia contain his work.


Victor came to America about 1890 with his wife Marie, and sons, George Maurice and Achille and daughter, Alina with her husband, Arthur Doumont and family. They settled in the Butler, Pennsylvania area where Victor maintained a studio in Philadelphia for many years.


At the time of  his death in 1928, he had a brother, Dieu Don Misson, age 100 and a sister, Julian Misson, age 93 still living in Belgium.


I have been told Victor did not buy paintings to hang on his walls for his home. He painted his own artwork on the walls!

Victor was my great-great grandfather and died before my mom was born and think he would have been a fascinating person to know. 

Finding My Dad-Woodrow Guthrie

Here is a little background about my early life. My parents divorced before I was 2 and it was a nasty split from what I have been told. My mom remarried when I was about 10. My step-father not only filled the shoes of the missing father in my life but became my dad and still is to this day! He’s a wonderful man that I love with all my heart!

However, this is the story of my biological father. Needless to say, I didn’t know much about him except for what my birth certificate showed and it wasn’t much. Like where was he now! When I was a teen, I had my first phone conversation with him and received a photo shortly after that. That was the only contact I had with him until I was about 35 or 36 years old. Needless to say, my mom had really hard feelings about things and just did not want to talk about him. She felt he didn’t deserve to know me! I kept pestering for answers, for names, anything and she finally mentioned a brother’s name. I called a dozen or so Raymond Guthrie’s in Texas and finally found someone that knew who he was but was told that Raymond had passed away a couple of months earlier. I was devastated! I told my story to him about trying to find my dad, Woody Guthrie, Raymond’s brother and asked him to please pass my name and phone number on to them. I thought so close and now so far away. Would I ever connect with my dad? It wasn’t a long time before I got a phone call and it was my dad, Woody!  I was so happy that we finally connected.

Woody and I spoke frequently on the phone over the next couple of years. In 1986, I moved cross county and stopped in Abilene to see Woody. I spent 3 or 4 days visiting with him, his wife, my half-sister and her family and dad’s sister. It was a great visit and I learned so much in that short time. I got to visit again about 1989 or 1990 for another 3 or 4 days. Those are the only visits I had with my dad because he died July 23, 1993.

My dad gave me so much information about his family history before he died. Since his death, his wife has sent me boxes upon boxes of photos, military medals, newspaper clippings from his service days and many other things. All these memento’s mean so much to me and have helped fill in so many gaps.

The not knowing where I came from and who he was and who is family were and how everything interconnected has finally come full circle. I finally feel that I know who I am and where I was meant to go in this life.

Over the years the genealogy research has helped answer many questions and fill in many of the blanks. I am so thankful for the short time we had together, but the research has made it fill like a lifetime of many happy memories!

Oct. 2, 2010

Just wanted to clarify something-my dad was not the famous singer Woody Guthrie,  nor is there any family conncection to his lineage. The singer, Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie was born July 14, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. My dad was Woodrow C. “Woody” Guthrie was July 18, 1918 in Texas.