Epidemic

by David DeKok

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  David DeKok writes nonfiction books about the lives and deaths and crises of people in small-town America. He is the author of two books on the Centralia mine fire in Pennsylvania, Unseen Danger: A Tragedy of People, Government, and the Centralia Mine Fire (1986) and Fire Underground: The Ongoing Tragedy of the Centralia Mine Fire (2009). The Sunday New York Times Book Review said Unseen Danger had “enough bureaucratic villains to fill a Dickens novel.” Crime writer Lisa Scottoline, who wrote Dirty Blonde, a fictional account set in Centralia and Philadelphia, called Fire Underground “a thoughtful and thoroughly engrossing read.” DeKok is a native of Holland, Michigan. He lives along the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Lisa Brittingham, and daughters Elizabeth and Lydia DeKok.

  Readers who want to know more about David DeKok, the Ithaca epidemic, or the Centralia mine fire can go to his website, www.daviddekok.com. He likes to hear from readers and can be reached at ddekok@mac.com.

  Typhoid bacilli, upper right, and magnified, showing flagella, lower left. From the article “Bacteriology,” in Meyers Konv. Lexicon, 6th edition (Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1902–08).

  Even as the first student was about to die of typhoid, the Junior Week festivities continued without pause. This advertisement evokes a bygone era. Cornell Daily Sun

  This ad from the H. K. Wood Bakery offered blunt reassurance to customers. Ithaca Daily News

  Treman, King & Co., the original business of the Treman family in Ithaca, advertised aggressively during the epidemic, such as this ad for a water distiller. Like Ithaca Water Works, the ad stresses the responsibility of individuals to avoid being infected with typhoid. Ithaca Daily News

  William T. Morris as a Cornell University student, ca. 1873. Cornell University Rare and Manuscript Collections

  Ebenezer M. Treman as a young man. Cornell University Rare and Manuscript Collections

  Charles E. Treman, Ithaca businessman and friend of William T. Morris. The History of the Treman, Trumaine, Truman Family in America, by Ebenezer Mack Treman, 1901.

  Mynderse Van Cleef was a friend and critical source of financing for William T. Morris. He was the brother-in-law of Robert H. and Charles E. Treman, and like them a member of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee. The History of the Treman, Trumaine, Truman Family in America, by Ebenezer Mack Treman, 1901.

  Robert H. Treman was the brother of Charles E. Treman and a close friend of William T. Morris. He was a banker in Ithaca. The History of the Treman, Trumaine, Truman Family in America, by Ebenezer Mack Treman, 1901.

  Lafayette L. Treman, patriarch of the Treman family. His death in 1900 was the first event on the epidemic timeline. The History of the Treman, Trumaine, Truman Family in America, by Ebenezer Mack Treman, 1901.

  This painting of the older William T. Morris hangs in the Yates County Historical Society in Penn Yan, New York. Photograph by David DeKok by permission of Yates County Historical Societ
y

  Ithaca residents, most likely Cornell students out for a Sunday stroll, pose for pictures in the future Six Mile Creek reservoir with their backs turned in the direction of Ithaca. The dam will rise in the gorge in the rear. Marie Paula Geiss Scrapbook, Cornell University Rare and Manuscript Collections

  A view of Ithaca, New York in 1908. Hugh C. Leighton Co.

  A view of East Hill, Ithaca, in 1905. Many of the people who became ill with typhoid during the epidemic, especially Cornell students, lived on the hill. McGraw Tower can be seen at upper left. R.C. Osborne & Co., Ithaca, N.Y.

  Six Cornell coeds pose on the balustrade in front of Sage College in a happier time. Marie Paula Geiss Scrapbook, Cornell University Rare and Manuscript Collections

  Three female Cornell students in the gorge of Six Mile Creek near campus, ca. 1902. Henry Crane Hasbrouck Memorabilia, Cornell University Rare and Manuscript Collections

  This photograph, taken Nov. 20, 1902, shows the valley where the Six Mile Creek reservoir will form after the dam is completed. Note the denuded hillsides, which offer little resistance to torrents of rainwater washing down. Gardner S. Williams Collection, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

  Students root for Cornell football team at Princeton game in the fall of 1902. Marie Paula Geiss Scrapbook, Cornell University Rare and Manuscript Collections

  Workmen pour concrete to build the Six Mile Creek Dam in the summer of 1903. City of Ithaca Department of Public Works