- 1880 Census, Salisbury NH
- 1884 Civil War Pension Filed
- 1888 Historical Insight -- Great Blizzard
1880 Census
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| 1880 Census Salisbury, Merrimack NH Amos L. Ham |
Amos L Ham is 45 years old, living in Salisbury, Merrimack NH, no street nor house number. He is a farmer, and, according to this, he was born in Vermont, yet both parents were born in New Hampshire.
1884 Civil War Pension Index
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| 1884 Civil War Pension Index |
Amos Ham, soldier for Company E, 6th Vermont infantry. Filed 21 February 1884, application number 506.664, certificate number 312.685. I am unsure if this belongs to our Amos, as this one fights for Vermont, although he files from New Hampshrie. It could be him, but both of these Pension indices cannot be the same person, right?
1888 Historical Insight -- Great Blizzard
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| 1888 Ancestry.com Historical Insight -- Great Blizzard of 1888 Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images |
New England was buried under arctic drifts of snow during the “Great White Hurricane” in the spring of 1888.
March 11, 1888 began as a spring day with rain along the Eastern seaboard, but in a short time temperatures plummeted, three to five feet of snow fell, and gale-force winds up to 80 mph created 20- to 30-foot snowdrifts from New Jersey to Vermont, isolating nearly every city.
Telegraph, telephone, and electrical lines went down, stranded passenger trains littered railroad tracks, and people remained trapped in their homes or businesses without access to food or heat. More than 400 people died, including U.S. Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York, who died of exposure when he lost his way home.
In addition to the snow and freezing temperatures, citizens had to contend with fires that burned out of control and the floods that came when the snow melted. In the wake of “The Great White Hurricane,” Boston and New York City officials resolved to bury their cables and wires and run trains underground to prevent future disasters.
from Ancestry.com Historical Insight
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