James was one of the many children that were struck down by spinal meningitis from 1904 to 1910 in Portland. According to the news reports of the time, the disease would "jump around" from family to family and between neighborhoods and "one never knew where its fatal countenance would join with the black specter of death to strike down our children."
James was one of the many children that were struck down by spinal meningitis from 1904 to 1910 in Portland. According to the news reports of the time, the disease would "jump around" from family to family and between neighborhoods and "one never knew where its fatal countenance would join with the black specter of death to strike down our children."
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