Vanessa WoodI’m still amazed by all the tree damage done to Connecticut by the “storm” on May 15th. I think the man who wrote to the editor was Noah Webster. You know, the guy who wrote the dictionary! He wrote of a tornado in 1839:
“I was at the house of Mr. Cooke, ten miles from New Haven on the Turnpike road to Hartford. The only circumstances worth notice, at that place, were the immense quantity of water which fell between 12 and 1 o’clock, and the calmness of the air.”1
Webster also wrote of a tornado that hit Connecticut in 1787. He would’ve been in his 20’s at that time.
1 “From the New Haven Herald,” letter to the editors, N. Webster, Hartford Courant, Conn., 9 August 1839, p. 2, col. 4.
Find A Grave, https://findagrave.com/, memorial 1084, image of Noah Webster Jr. gravestone (Grove Street Cem., New Haven, Fairfield Co., Conn.) by “H.C.~Maine,” 20 November 2010.
