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Arrival of Steamboat with Cholera, 1834
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The steamboat Chicago arrived in its namesake city in August, 1834. Chicago's captain reported that two sailors had recently died of cholera. The small town was up in arms because residents had gone fourteen days without a reported case of cholera. Edmund Stoughton Kimberly reported on the organization of a commission to protect Chicagoans from the disease.
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