• Rupprecht descendants v.s. Epidemics …
Direct Ancestors
Epidemics
Antonius Rupprecht b. circa 1741, d. 31 October 1810
Measles: Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina
Influenza: North America and West Indies
Measles: All of white-inhabited North America
Influenza: North America and the West Indies
Measles: North America
Unknown epidemic: All of North America, especially New England
Influenza: World-wide, lasting through 1776
Josef W. Rupprecht b. 17 November 1777, d. circa 1842
Influenza: one of the worst world-wide epidemics, lasting through 1782
Measles: Philadelphia and New York
Influenza: Virginia, killing 500 people in 5 counties in 4 weeks.
Influenza and "putrid fever": Vermont
"extremely fatal bilious disorder": Dover, Delaware
Yellow fever: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Unexplained sudden deaths: Harrisburg and Middletown, Pennsylvania
Yellow fever: Philadelphia
Yellow fever: Philadelphia, lasting through 1798
Yellow fever: New York
Johann B. Rupprecht b. 14 February 1808, d. circa 1873
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"Fever": started on the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania, spread nation-wide, lasting through 1823
Asiatic Cholera: nation-wide, brought in by English immigrants
Cholera: New York and other major cities
Johann Rupprecht b. 29 October 1836, d. 8 March 1901
Typhus: Philadelphia
Yellow fever: nation-wide, especially severe in the southern states
Influenza: World-wide, lasting through 1848
Yellow fever: New Orleans
Cholera: Nation-wide
Influenza: World-wide, lasting through 1851
Influenza: World-wide, one of the worst on record, lasting through 1859
Smallpox: Philadelphia, lasting through 1861
through 1873: Recurring epidemics of smallpox, cholera, typhus, typhoid, scarlet and yellow fevers striking Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, and Washington.
Influenza: North America and Europe, lasting through 1875
Adolph J. Rupprecht b. 7 December 1876, d. 23 October 1918
Yellow fever: New Orleans
Typhoid: Plymouth, Pennsylvania
Yellow fever: Devastating epidemic in Jacksonville, Florida
Influenza: World-wide epidemic; more people hospitalized from influenza in World War I than from wounds, high mortality rate in U.S. Army training camps, as much as 80% in some.
Philip R. J. Rupprecht b. 1 June 1918, d. 13 August 1979
Direct Ancestors
Epidemics