The Carrier: ‘Typhoid’ Mary Mallon

It was in 1906 that much of the Warren family came down with typhoid fever. The Warrens had been renting a summer home in Oyster Bay and owner George Thomas was nervous about the home’s future. Who would want to …

“It Was Sweeping Up From Below Like a Tornado”: SS General Slocum

It would be a beautiful and marvelous steamer, named after the Civil War general, Henry Slocum. So in 1890 construction of the steamboat General Slocum began in Brooklyn, New York. The next year the Slocum was launched. She made the …