Clean water is of the utmost importance.
"The Black Cholera Comes to the Central Valley of America in the 19th Century"
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2394684/
After I read about the millionaire hobo, I read a bit about his family, and then I said, how did a well-off woman perish from cholera in the 1800s?
"James Buchanan Eads" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan_Eads
"Around 1842, Eads fell in love with Martha Dillon, a woman related to him by marriage. Martha's father was Patrick Dillon, a prominent St. Louis businessman. Patrick did not approve of the couple, as he wanted Martha to marry someone with money and influence. In October 1845, James and Martha wed without her father's consent.[5]
Martha moved in with Eads' parents in LeClaire, Iowa while Eads stayed behind in St. Louis to set up a glass works. Although their living arrangement was supposed to be temporary, the failure of his glass business made it permanent. Eads had many debts to pay off from the failed business and he went back to working in salvage.[5]
Martha died in October 1852 of cholera. She did not live to see Eads become successful. Five years after her death, when Eads retired from working on the river, he had amassed a fortune of $500,000.[5]"
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