Last Name: Hoggan
First Name: Walter Thomas
Age: 35 years
Gender: M
Cemetery: Rigby, Idaho
Birth Date: 30 JUN 1883
Birth Place: Salt Lake,UT
Date Died: MAR 1919
Death Place:
Father: George Drummond Hoggan
Mother: Edith Frances Harrison
Spouse: Elizabeth Grover
Sources: Rigby Star 27 p1
Idaho's First Victim of 'Sleeping Sickness' Officially Reported
Date: Saturday, March 29, 1919 Paper: Idaho Statesman (Boise, ID) Issue: 212 Page: 1
The first Idaho Fatality from Lethargic Encephalitis, or sleeping sickness, to be officially reported, was announced by the State Board of Health Friday, by a Rigby Physician [Dr. Fisher]. Walter Hoggan, age 37 [35], was the victim. According to the reporting physician, Hoggan's cause was typical of the dread disease. The doctor gave no indication as to how the case developed. No official report has been received by the state health board on the case of a Twin Falls man reported in a dispatch as being ill with the malady.
First Name: Walter Thomas
Age: 35 years
Gender: M
Cemetery: Rigby, Idaho
Birth Date: 30 JUN 1883
Birth Place: Salt Lake,UT
Date Died: MAR 1919
Death Place:
Father: George Drummond Hoggan
Mother: Edith Frances Harrison
Spouse: Elizabeth Grover
Sources: Rigby Star 27 p1
Idaho's First Victim of 'Sleeping Sickness' Officially Reported
Date: Saturday, March 29, 1919 Paper: Idaho Statesman (Boise, ID) Issue: 212 Page: 1
The first Idaho Fatality from Lethargic Encephalitis, or sleeping sickness, to be officially reported, was announced by the State Board of Health Friday, by a Rigby Physician [Dr. Fisher]. Walter Hoggan, age 37 [35], was the victim. According to the reporting physician, Hoggan's cause was typical of the dread disease. The doctor gave no indication as to how the case developed. No official report has been received by the state health board on the case of a Twin Falls man reported in a dispatch as being ill with the malady.
Last Name: Hoggan
First Name: Walter Thomas
Age: 35 years
Gender: M
Cemetery: Rigby, Idaho
Birth Date: 30 JUN 1883
Birth Place: Salt Lake,UT
Date Died: MAR 1919
Death Place:
Father: George Drummond Hoggan
Mother: Edith Frances Harrison
Spouse: Elizabeth Grover
Sources: Rigby Star 27 p1
Idaho's First Victim of 'Sleeping Sickness' Officially Reported
Date: Saturday, March 29, 1919 Paper: Idaho Statesman (Boise, ID) Issue: 212 Page: 1
The first Idaho Fatality from Lethargic Encephalitis, or sleeping sickness, to be officially reported, was announced by the State Board of Health Friday, by a Rigby Physician [Dr. Fisher]. Walter Hoggan, age 37 [35], was the victim. According to the reporting physician, Hoggan's cause was typical of the dread disease. The doctor gave no indication as to how the case developed. No official report has been received by the state health board on the case of a Twin Falls man reported in a dispatch as being ill with the malady.
First Name: Walter Thomas
Age: 35 years
Gender: M
Cemetery: Rigby, Idaho
Birth Date: 30 JUN 1883
Birth Place: Salt Lake,UT
Date Died: MAR 1919
Death Place:
Father: George Drummond Hoggan
Mother: Edith Frances Harrison
Spouse: Elizabeth Grover
Sources: Rigby Star 27 p1
Idaho's First Victim of 'Sleeping Sickness' Officially Reported
Date: Saturday, March 29, 1919 Paper: Idaho Statesman (Boise, ID) Issue: 212 Page: 1
The first Idaho Fatality from Lethargic Encephalitis, or sleeping sickness, to be officially reported, was announced by the State Board of Health Friday, by a Rigby Physician [Dr. Fisher]. Walter Hoggan, age 37 [35], was the victim. According to the reporting physician, Hoggan's cause was typical of the dread disease. The doctor gave no indication as to how the case developed. No official report has been received by the state health board on the case of a Twin Falls man reported in a dispatch as being ill with the malady.
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